Social Networks & Academics & 15 Tools

This is an update of the 2008 presentation Scholarly Research: Internet & Web2.0,
and of the 2009 presentation Web 2.0 & Academic Research & 10 Tools.

Research tools and places to go have changed since the 2008 presentation at
SIDLIT. Librarians now graduate from Schools of Information and professional
journals talk little about reference books, research sources and methodology.
Academics in today’s colleges and universities investigate primary resources of
fact and process on mobile devices and notebook computers. Mention
“databases” to faculty researchers and watch eyes gloss over as memories of
passwords, proxy IDs, methods of Boolean searching and abstracted articles
flood recent memory.

This 2010 presentation, Social Networks & Academics & 15 Tools explores
where the “primary” is in research. Can we cite our solution’s conclusions? Is
there anything that cannot be found without Google search? The tools are in front
of us as our vision gets sharper and wider and deeper.

Come ready to offer your ideas, questions and solutions. We’re well into networking in
the 2010 version of information access and retrieval.