Tools & Websites for Philosophy Researchers Writing, Publishing and Sharing 1. Publishing & sharing Philpapers http://philpapers.org Share philosophical papers and follow other scholars. There is also discussion forums, an event service and job board. Academia.edu www.academia.edu Social networking site for academics. You can share research interests, papers, your CV, forthcoming talks and follow other scholars. There is a search engine, message service, job board, and possibility to follow journals. Twitter http://twitter.org Microblogging service. Find links to useful resources and news or share your thoughts and links to your publications. A list of philosophers on Twitter by Rani Lill Anjum is available at: https://twitter.com/ranilillanjum/philosophers-ontwitter Blogs Blogger www.blogger.com Wordpress http://wordpress.com Weebly www.weebly.com
3. File Sharing Dropbox www.dropbox.com Your files are accessible on any machine where you've installed Dropbox.. 2GB free storage. Spideroak www.spideroak.com Secure encrypted cloud storage and synchronisation. 2GB free storage
Keeping up to date What is RSS? RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a format that is used to publish frequently updated web-based information. Click on the feed icon: ; or and it will display the contents of the feed and explain how to subscribe to it.
1. RSS Feed Readers Feedly Netvibes
www.feedly.com www.netvibes.com
2. Email alerts Automatically receive emails of the most recent table of contents (ToCs) of journals.
2. Document sharing Google Drive http://drive.google.com Collaborate with others on documents, spreadsheets, presentations. Scribd www.scribd.com Document sharing website. Recommends documents for you based on your preferences. Slideshare www.slideshare.net Upload and share presentations and documents.
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Zetoc Alerts http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk Journal Tocs www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk
Managing References & Articles Zotero www.zotero.org Free tool to collect, organise, cite, and share references. Plugin available for Word. Mendeley www.mendeley.com Free reference manager and academic social network. Organize & annotate PDFs, manage