The Digital Tools for Research programme aims to introduce Early Career Researchers to the use of social media at all stages of the research lifecycle.

Beginning on Monday 28^th May with three core modules to be completed by Friday 20^th July:

• Publishing on the web
  Tools covered: blogs
• Online identity
  Tools covered: Academia.edu
• Networking
  Tools covered: Twitter, Lanyrd

Following the core modules participants must choose two optional modules to complete by Friday 28^th September:

• Collaborative working

Tools covered: GoogleDocs, Dropbox.

• Creating/sharing multimedia

Tools covered: Prezi, SlideShare, YouTube.

• Current awareness

Tools covered: GoogleReader, citation and journal alerts, iTunesU

• Getting organised
  Tools covered: Delicious, Zotero, Mendeley.
• Open Access
  Tools covered: WRAP, Creative Commons, Open Access journals

Sign-up to take part at http://digitalresearcher.wikispaces.com/Registration