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Ever wanted to share part of an article with a friend online without them having to read the whole article? Or to highlight the important bits and save them for later? Here's a website that conveniently lets you do just that! The Awesome Highlighter allows you to highlight part of a website, then gives you a small direct link to your highlighted section.

You've all heard of Google Scholar , but did you know you can now use it to create alerts for your searches? Step 1: Search as usual for a keyword/author Step 2: Click on the envelope symbol (in the bar at the top of your search results) Step 3: Enter your email address (this will happen automatically if you're logged in to another Google service) Then all you have to do is sit back and wait for new items matching your search criteria to be delivered to your email.

Online database Scopus have just brought out an iPhone app that allows you to use the searching and alerting features of scopus on the move, and even to tweet references. For more information search for Scopus Alerts (lite) on iTunes or the Scopus website .

JISC has just revealed its list of the top 10 digital apps for researchers Among them are old friends such as Skype as well as online reference and reading list management systems, online communities for researchers in different fields, and the new Google Wave (merging email with collaborative working). The list includes helpful suggestions for using the technologies in research and networking, as well as proposing discipline-specific resources for both sciences and humanities.

One of the main issues for the PhD researcher is having to look in so many places for the information you need on a daily basis. Well here's one way of keeping all your information together in one place. Pageflakes is a 'social personalised homepage' where you can collate information from the internet. Have a look at the Graduate School Media Zoo's pageflakes page for examples of how this might be useful for your research. On our page we have rss feeds from sources such as: - Bookmarks - Blogs - Database searches - Calls for papers - News from archives, research centres etc - Journal contents pages ...all of these are available in your subject. You can also access your email and social networking accounts on a pageflakes page, as well as weather reports, calendars, PhD cartoons and other applications. For other ways of keeping it all together see netvibes and igoogle . For more information on how to use RSS feeds or feed readers make an appointment in the Graduat...

Vacancies - Casual Staff Extra “Quiet and library environment enforcement” patrollers wanted for May and June The David Wilson Library is recruiting students of the University for “The Quiet and Library Environment Patrol”, so that we can provide additional patrolling during the summer examination period. The work involves patrolling all areas of the David Wilson Library building for an hour at a time to help maintain a quiet environment and to enforce the “no eating” regulation. The patrolling person will issue a “yellow card” to those users who are creating a noise, using a mobile phone outside a designated Phone Zone, or eating /drinking in the Library. They will make a record of the user’s name and Library card number, and pass these details to a designated member of Library staff. Patrollers must be prepared to work during the exam period and are required for the following weeks: Tuesday 4 May to Friday 4 June Duties are arranged on a rota basis to cover the following hours: 11.00...

New research shows that networking is the most effective way to communicate innovative research, so why not consider the blog as a networking tool? Last Thursday a GSMZ workshop looked at the potential of blogs not only for tracking and publicising research but for keeping in touch with a community of bloggers and readers interested in the same thing, whether it be a specific research topic or the process of researching in itself. Have a look at some of these blogs by students and academics to see how the blog can communicate ideas whether it's used as a solitary pursuit or a team effort. Postgraduate student blogging communities at Leicester http://attic-museumstudies.blogspot.com/ http://www.newhistorylab.org/ PhD blogs http://malenel.wordpress.com/ http://www.prospects.ac.uk/p/articles/phd_blog_43.jsp Blogs by academics at Leicester http://www.microbiologybytes.com/blog/ …and elsewhere http://mat.gsia.cmu.edu/blog/ http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/