Friday 22 October 2010

Dream Bigger Dreams



Posted by Andy

At last! The truth about medical research...

                                                                         Image courtesy of Mike Licht, NotionsCaptial.com


For those of you that have never heard of  Dr John Ioannidis and his controversial but brilliant ideas about the state of medical research, you would do well to check out David H.Freedman's article in online magazine 'the Atlantic' this month. And for those of you who want to read Ioannidis' groundbreaking article from PLoS Medidine, you can read the full text at: http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124

Posted by Claire

Thursday 21 October 2010

Research Funding Update - Fellowships and Studentships

 
 
Posted by Andy 



You can download the latest Research Funding update by going to our Research Funding page or you can view it directly here
 
The archive of the Research Funding Update can be viewed here


For more information please feel free to contact The Information Service @ ScHARR Library on 0114 2225420 or by email scharrlib@shef.ac.uk

Net Neutrality - The Empire Strikes Back?

net neutrality




Posted by Andy

Thursday 14 October 2010

Recommended Website of the month - Speedtile

 
 Posted by Andy

There is absolutely no shortage of innovative online bookmarking tools out there, obviously the established big players are Delicious and Diigo, but more recently there has been a move towards visual bookmarking tools. we've already seen the wonderful Pearltrees which creates wonderful tree structures of favourite websites, and can be best used as a teaching or learning resource. 
Another great tool is Speedtile, which takes all of your favourites and places them with small screen shots in a tile formation on your browser. It's very quick to use, and looks really good. You can create shared collections and place content over several tabs. The only downside is that it does not recognise certain Website extensions such as.pdf. Nevertheless it is well worth the visit.

If you want to see it in actioon have a look at the one I created for a course we ran in Switzerland last month.

Web 3.0 and the Future of the Web


Web 3.0 from Kate Ray on Vimeo.


Posted by Andy

Friday 8 October 2010

October's Edition of Take Five

Posted and Photo by Andy


he latest edition of Take Five is packed full of new websites, research funding opportunities,training courses and current awareness.

To join the Take Five distribution list please contact me, Andy Tattersall by email a.tattersall@sheffield.ac.uk or phone 0114 2220702

You can view it here


Whilst an archive of the Take Five Newsletter and other research funding updates can be viewed here


Friday 1 October 2010