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Social media can be an intimidating place for academics as not all of them take to it like ducks to water. For many newcomers, a more approp

Academia has become increasingly reliant on third-party tools and technologies to carry out many of the processes throughout the research li

video of a talk I gave for The British Psychological Association on Altmetrics and how researchers can make use of them

With so many scholarly communications tools and technologies now available, how do academics decide which are most appropriate for their res

Altmetrics offers all kinds of insights into how a piece of research has been communicated and cited. In 2014 Altmetric.com added policy doc

Academia can always learn a lot from the rest of the world when it comes to working with the web. The project 101 Innovations in Scholarly C

Social media and digital tools are now a staple of many researcher practices and have brought new dimensions to publishing, finding and orga

To consider how being constantly connected through computers and mobile devices has encroached on our working lives, consider the experiment

Technology’s promise of wonderful things in the future stretches from science fiction to science fact: self-driving cars, virtual reality, s

Health is one of the biggest topics searched for on the web, yet despite its importance a large portion of this information is inaccurate, a