What do social media have to do with the way research is conducted?

Quite a lot, according to Social Media and Research Workflow, a report from CIBER, the Centre for Information Behaviour and the Evaluation of Research at University College London. As the report says:

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has released two new reports today:

Dental decay among Australian children

Citizen science, also known as crowdsourcing, is on the increase, and is being written about in scholarly journals.

Public investment in higher education and research has a positive impact on economic growth and social wellbeing, according to a new report from Research Councils UK and Universities UK. Big Ideas for the Future explores new research in the UK and the impact breakthrough research - growing new organs, tackling worklessness - will have on people's lives over the next twenty years.

October 3-5, 2011, The Pasadena Convention Center, Pasadena, CA.

October 3-5, 2011, The Pasadena Convention Center, Pasadena, CA.

Public investment in higher education and research has a positive impact on economic growth and social wellbeing, according to a new report from Research Councils UK and Universities UK. Big Ideas for the Future explores new research in the UK and the impact breakthrough research - growing new organs, tackling worklessness - will have on people's lives over the next twenty years.

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.

Professor Hubert Chanson has recently published a report on the circumstances of the floods in Queensland, including the extent of the flooding in Central Queensland, South Queensland and South-East Queensland.

Librarians can support researchers through all stages of their research process. This includes providing advice on the information aspects of research, helping researchers stay up to date with research in their discipline ares, developing collections to meet their research needs, advising on open access and data management, and helping researchers to make the most of bibliographic management tools such as EndNote and a range of other online tools which can improve the processes of discovering, gathering, creating and sharing information.