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The research process: funding, grants, proposals, IP, copyright, publishing, information dissemination

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• arXiv e-Print Archive (US) - fully automated electronic archive & distribution server for research papers, covering physics & related disciplines, maths, nonlinear sciences, computational linguistics, neuroscience: general, browsing, submission, reference

• Association for University Research & Industry Links (AURIL) (UK) - network of professionals dedicated to development of partnerships between HE & industry to support innovation & competitiveness: theme groups, events, news, jobs, publications, mailbase

• Canberra University, (AU), Postgraduate Student Resources - general advice to postgrads & supervisors, effective writing, analysis, grantsmanship, seminars & conference presentations, ethical issues

• Clarion University (US), Research Design Explained - notes from book: psychology & science, generating research hypotheses, reading & evaluating research, measuring & manipulating variables, choosing best measure, descriptive methods, survey research, internal validity, simple & emultiple group experiment, within-subjects designs, single-n & quasi-experiments, writing research proposals & reports, ethical implications for planning & conducting research, searching literature

• The Copyright Website (US) - provides real world, practical & relevant copyright info (US law): basic, visual, audio & digital

• Delphion Intellectual Property Network (US) - search, view, analyze patent documents, access to data collections and patent info including US & European patents, patent abstracts of Japan, IBM technical disclosure bulletins: research, products

• Dr Abel Scribe PhD (US), Student's Guides to Research Writing and Style - free guides to formatting research papers in APA psychology, ASA sociology, CBE biology, Chicago/Turabian & MLA humanities/language style

• Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) (UK) - main govt agency for funding research & training in engineering & physical sciences, investing in a broad range of subjects from (maths to materials science, IT to structural engineering): industrial collaboration, international activity, postgraduate training, public engagement, research funding

• European Union (LU), Community Research & Development Information Service (CORDIS) - European Union-funded research, databases, web & interactive services, guidance & background info, innovation in practice, research & development gateway, news

• grantwriters.com (US) - web site for grant & proposal writers, free info on grant writing world, bookstore (grant writing materials, books, guides, diskettes with sample documents), training (open workshops, on-site programs, web-based instruction), customized funding source report: free info, bookstore, training, services

• IngentaConnect - collection of academic and professional publications: librarians, researchers, publishers, search (over 17,000 articles, chapters, reports), browse (over 28,000 publications)

• JANET (UK) - private, govt funded network for education & research: services (e-mail, newsfeeds, videoconferencing, network time service, secondary nameserver service, events & publications (workshops, conferences, training courses, documentation), developments, reporting problems

• Journal Storage (JSTOR) (US), The Scholarly Journal Archive - not-for-profit organization with dual mission to create & maintain trusted archive of important scholarly journals, providing access as widely as possible, JSTOR offers researchers ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues & pages as they were originally designed, printed, & illustrated: search, browsw, tips

• Kansas University (US) Medical Center, Effective Presentations - online tutorial series: developing an effective oral presentation, designing effective visual aids for presentations, creating an effective poster presentation, links

• Manchester University (UK), Gateway on Research Supervision - free resource for web-based info, advice & support generated throughout world, for supervisors, policy makers & training personnel in all fields concerned with practice of research degree supervision: keyword search, induction material, topics, key he websites, discussion fora, accreditation, suggestions

• Research Councils UK - strategic partnership through which the UK’s 7 Research Councils & Arts & Humanities Research Board champion research, training & innovation: Biotechnology & Biological Sciences, Engineering & Physical Sciences, Economic and Social, Medical, Natural Environment, Particle Physics & Astronomy, Council for Central Laboratory of Research Councils, news, contacts, activities

• St Francis University (US), Visit to Copyright Bay - attempt to explore "fair use" in not-for-profit educational setting presenting in an informative & entertaining way: fair use (background, multimedia, audio visual, dist-ed, single & multiple copying, infringement)

• Society for Scholarly Publishing (US) - advances scholarly publication, communication & professional development through education, collaboration & networking among individuals: meetings, news, resources, job bank, books, calendar, professional services directory

• Stanford University (US), Copyright & Fair Use - primary materials, guide, key copyright sites, overview, resources for librarians, current issues & legislation, commentary & analysis

• UKRO, UK Research Office (UK) - subscriber based organisation providing info & advice primarily to UK organisations on EU funded opportunities for research & HE: info services, European RTD Insight, mobility NCD helpdesk, partner search, annual report, events, sponors, subscribers

• Waterloo University (CA) Scholarly Societies Project - facilitating access to info about scholarly societies across the world: links, special kinds of societies, selected resources at the web sites, societies & scholarly communication (essays)