To help students and researchers familiarise themselves with the features of Wiley Online Library, the publisher is running an online quiz.

The quiz is open to all in the Asia-Pacific region, with the following prizes:

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The Library's Legal Research Guide is a gateway to legal resources. It has pages dedicated to legal abbreviations, encyclopaedias and dictionaries, case citators, legislation, law reform resources, journal articles and legal referencing, plus many, many more.

TARDIS is a multi-institutional collaboration that facilitates the archiving and sharing of data and metadata pertaining to crystallography. TARDIS offers a free data packaging tool for organising and annotating data, and for creating localised repositories.

The UQ Research and Innovation Division has developed a great research grants calendar .

To see grants of interest, under Criteria choose your Faculty and sort by Deadline (furthest deadline first). The calendar displays ongoing grants as well.

If you want to see what you missed out on (!), also tick the box that says Show items past their deadline.

Enjoy!

As Google Scholar continues its growth in coverage and popularity for searching for scholarly articles, the scale and significance of this database is influencing the way that the ranking of researchers and the impact of their research is being measured.

New research collaboration tools are being released all the time. For example, you can find a list of existing tools here.

Creating a research data management plan: what are the kinds of things you should consider?

To find out the who, what, where, when, and why … not to mention the how, come along to this presentation by Belinder Weaver, Manager, Research Data Collections Service.

The session will:

Most people are probably wedded to their favourite browsers - whether IE, Firefox, Opera or Safari. As an incentive to switch to Google's Chrome browser, Google have launched CloudSave, which allows users to save files from Google Docs, Amazon Cloud Drive, Dropbox, Facebook, Picasa, and many other programs and applications. CloudSave doesn't work with many browsers, so anyone wanting to take advantage of the technology will have to install Chrome.

What will research will be like in the coming decades? The British Library has mounted an exhibition on this topic at Growing Knowledge: The Evolution of Research. Interviews with researchers from a range of disciplines explore how research has changed. In Projects, visitors can see examples of collaborative digital projects that push the boundaries of research. The Tools area brings together online tools for writing, collaborating, staying organised, that make the research process much easier.

Many stages of research, from finding materials to publishing and debating research outputs, can be assisted by online tools. The British Library, as part of its Growing Knowledge: The evolution of research exhibition, has provided a list of available tools to help you research more effectively and expand your scholarly network.