Part of a "Digital Tools for Research" presentation: this section covers tools for Storing and Sharing

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Storing in the Cloud

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What is the cloud?
The "cloud" is the internet, and the
term is fitting – it's large, out there
somewhere, and fuzzy at the edges.
From The Guardian, 21/6/12 “What is Cloud Computing?”

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Advantages?
• Access from anywhere
with a web connection:
home, work, mobile
phone, tablet...
• A back-up store
• Makes sharing easy over
the web

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• Free version = 2GB space
• Extremely popular = 50m+ users
• Requires a software install
• Works a bit like “Windows Explorer”
• Access also via the web
• Just about storing (not editing) files of any
type

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Google Drive (Docs)

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Google Drive
• 5GB free storage
• Software download available (Dropbox-style)
• Google Docs is online Office-style suite = Word
documents, spreadsheets, presentations so
has editing facilities
• Easy to share and collaborate on a document

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Evernote
• Software download available
• Create notes / documents within Evernote
• Store other stuff: PDFs, images, videos, use
the web clipper to save web pages etc.
• Categorize, tag, search....
• Sharing is easy too
• Lots of clever add-ons

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Sharing
Why share?
• Collaborating
• Self-publishing
•“Open access”
•Peer review?
•Reach a wider audience
•Showing off?!

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Making documents available
• Dropbox, Google Drive and Evernote all allow
you to “publish” a document selectively or
publicly
– You get a URL to circulate
– Google Docs demo
• Or: do you have your own web space? A
website? A blog?
• Copyright & IPR considerations

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Other things you can share
• Presentations: Slideshare, Prezi
• References: Mendeley, Zotero
• Curating content: Pinterest, Scoop.it
• Social Bookmarking (web links): delicious,
diigo
(Examples of all of these on our sheet!)

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Promoting your content
1. Email a link to colleagues / friends
2. Circulate it more widely:
– Twitter
– Blogging

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Dr Simon Dymond
College of Human and Health Sciences, Swansea
University
“I tweet about my research to draw attention to it (and, it is
hoped, increase its "impact").”
“I also tweet about my findings from my research area
(behaviour analysis and behaviourism) because is often
misrepresented, as well other topics I am interested in.”
“I see Twitter as a forum by which like-minded people
interact and share resources. It is really impressive how
many academics and researchers from around the world
have a presence on Twitter!”

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Using Twitter
• You can lurk!
• Find people / organizations that interest you
• The essentials:
– Reply by using @username
– Hashtags for topics e.g. #psychology, #altc2012
– Use short URLs (http://bit.ly, http://goo.gl
All you need to know is in one great guide!

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Have a go!
Use the handout if you’re just getting started
OR
Use the online document to browse tools you
haven’t used before:
http://bit.ly/X6Sncw