Author Archives: David Watson
RSS tips #3: Mac options, and subcribing by email
I’ve had some feedback on our post about subscribing to the blog in Outlook, which has led me to discover that Microsoft Office for Mac doesn’t currently offer RSS support – so the post isn’t much use to Mac users.
This is disappointing, and is compounded by Apple removing RSS support from Safari and Mail apps in the latest version of OSX. A good solution is subscribing using a web-based, cross-platform service such as Google Reader, which I’ll look at in an upcoming post.
I’ve also added the option to subscribe by email. This uses Google’s Feedburner service, which will send you a daily digest of new posts. You’ll see the link in the new Subscribe widget on the right of the page.
Must all postgrad research have ‘impact’?
Interesting piece in The Guardian last week – http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/nov/14/postgraduates-higher-education
RSS tips #2: subscribe to a YouTube playlist
While blogging about University of Warwick’s new Just About… channel, I was surprised to learn that Youtube doesn’t offer an RSS option for subscribing to playlists. But I found a workaround – read on for details.
‘Just About…’: YouTube researcher tips from University of Warwick
University of Warwick library have launched Just About…, a new YouTube channel for sharing short tips and guides for researchers, based on their information skills workshops. Among the initial offerings is a guide to setting up alerts in Web of Knowledge and Google, which any researcher may find useful.
Don’t forget that University of Northampton research training videos are also available through the NILE RES001 module – new additions are posted to our Training category.
Thumbnail image: Hungarian television set from 1959 by Takkk via Wikimedia Commons (Creative Commons)
Bursary for women postgraduate research students in HISTORY or ENGLISH LITERATURE
This Bursary is offered annually to women postgraduate students whose research in HISTORY or ENGLISH LITERATURE requires a short residence in London in the summer. Read the rest of this entry
RefWorks update
We’ve made some minor changes to our RefWorks output style today, so you’ll find the Harvard UoN option missing the next time you log into RefWorks or Write-N-Cite. Unfortunately we can’t prevent this, but I’ve added a short guide to the Research Support Hub demonstrating how to restore the Harvard UoN style.
Thumbnail image: Chrome Vanadium Wrenches by Ildar Sagdejev via Wikimedia Commons (Creative Commons).
RefWorks: Restoring the Harvard UoN style
FAQ: I’ve lost the Harvard UoN output style in RefWorks. How do I get it back?
From time to time we need to apply maintenance tweaks to our university RefWorks configuration. An unfortunate consequence of this is that the Harvard UoN option will disappear from your list of output styles. This post demonstrates how to restore it.
Blogwatch: UoN researchers at SCAPE 2012
Jeff Ollerton reports from SCAPE 2012, the annual meeting of the Scandinavian Association of Pollination Ecologists, which included presentations from André Rodrigo Rech and Stella Watts of the university’s Landscape and Biodiversity Research Group.
Jeff’s post, barely two days old, is already prominent in various Google searches relating to the conference, and demonstrates how a blog can be a valuable tool for disseminating your research work, activity and interests.
If you’re a University of Northampton researcher with a blog of your own – or if you’re thinking of starting one and need some advice – please let us know (or see the slides from our recent workshop).
Thumbnail image: California High Desert Honey Bees Pollinating a Yellow Beavertail Cactus Flower by Jessie Eastland via Wikimedia Commons (Creative Commons)
Research Opportunities with Social Enterprise
The Canal and River Trust Seminar
1100 – 1400hrs Thursday 13 December 2012 : Sunley Conference Centre Read the rest of this entry
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