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On Saturday I attended a fabulous session 'Digital Scholar Tips' with Cari Spring and Colleen Carmean (ASU). A few tips I knew, but many amazing tools were new to me, or I had not considered using them for scholarly purposes. These are all FREE resources found on the internet.


 * ANYTIME, ANYWHERE COMPUTING AND ACCESS**

Colleen Carmean's page (from handout Saturday)

https://wiki.asu.edu/cyberlife/index.php/E-scholarship

My take:


 * **[|furl.net]** a version of on-line bookmarking - instead of saving your favorites or bookmarks locally, on a single machine, why not save them on the internet. Benefit: Accessible to you anywhere you have access to the internet. Mobility! It's also a form of social bookmarking, you can share or see other shared lists and add to your vast array of resources, finding folks with their like minded interests, bookmarked on line
 * **[|Google Scholar]** just open google, type scholar in the search window and voila! Did you know, under the synopsis of your search results, you will see how many times an article has been cited. AS Colleen explains, if you are not sure who the key players are or the key language used in a body of research, here's a great opportunity to develop that background and find some amazing articles!
 * **Cool Tip form Colleen! Scholar Preferences** - At the Google Scholar search window, select option 'Scholar Preferences', scroll down to 'Bibliography Manager' and change it to **RefWorks**.
 * **[|RefWorks]** **& Google Scholar** - If your RefWorks account is open, you can instantly cite the Google Scholar Article into your RefWorks account. Below the Google Scholar search result (one RefWorks has been updated to your Bibliography Manager), select the option RefWorks.
 * **[|Bubbl.us]** - On-line visual planner/mind-mapping,brainstorming tool. If you are familiar with software called Inspiration, same idea, but it travels with you on the internet and it's FREE!

There's more to add, but for now have to get ready for Sunday Colloquium, I will put the URL for this amazing tool up, But you can read what they post and figure it out! If you use nothing else, check this one out!
 * http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/home** of Google **Many Eyes IBM**
 * More about [|Many Eyes]** This article provides a good idea of what can be accomplished using this powerful tool


 * [|Google Docs]** - fullt operational word processro (liek MS Word), but docs are available and stored secruely on-line - top share a doc wiht a reader or you GA, simply give them the URL, is you want them to have edit and comment rights, set those options. To access google docs, you must create a Google Account (free)