Post-grad study for mature students : 15 tips
A while back, a friend and colleague who is about to start a PhD asked me if I had any advice. I said, don’t ask me, given that I had…
Varieties of reading: drawing in and pulling away
I’ve just finished reading Matthew Crawford’s The World Beyond Your Head, which I’d happily say is one of the best books I’ve read in the last year. I wonder when…
IT tips #11: Use dummy text to help you write
Dummy text for dummies This much I know – it’s much harder to write an article of 250 words than one of 2,500. The word count of articles I’ve written…
Great Zotero tips
Zotero fans – here’s some great tips, even though they’re from 2008: 12 must know Zotero tips and techniques from The Ideophone. I still think that one of the best…
Zotero guide from The Old Bailey
This is the advantage of following Zotero’s twitter feed – you find out about brilliant resources such as the guide to using Zotero from The Old Bailey (yes, that Old…
Zotero book on its way
Just as I was wondering when there would be such a thing, here’s the news: Jason Puckett, blogger over at Librarian X (tagline: with great power comes great bibliography) is…