Manage your References and Creative Commons

Sunflower by mrhayata, September 23, 2011, Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0

Reference Management Software is an invaluable gift when you start with a PhD project.
I had been using "Cite This For Me". However, after exploring the alternative choices I reconsider and I chose Mendeley. Mendeley combines the best features of several other tools and it has become "my invaluable gift" in managing my vast number of references in my PhD journey.

The opportunity of learning about Creative Common Licences and their use were very important for me as I love the idea of sharing my gallery content and being able to reuse online available images. CC licenses like Attribution, ShareAlike, NonComercial, and NonDerivatives can be used to free us and at the same time protect our rights as originators of our creative work.

According to the task I explored Flirck to find a nice image!
The above image was shared using a CC Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0)
As well, I used CC Attribution license on my blog page.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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Let's Begin...

Let's begin... I am a psychologist and recently a PhD student! I've never been interested in "social media" world and the idea of sharing my thoughts, my pictures, my songs, my life online. OK... I am on Facebook, Linkedin, Instagram, but I rarely share things... I prefer to live in the moment and don't stop a good time just to pull out my phone. I ask for real life, authentic people and deep thoughts. But now, living the dream of a first-year PhD student, maybe, it's the right time to see it in a more positive way, create my personal blog, upgrade my social media presence and share my research interests. I've embarked on 23 Things for Research to find out how the technological world of internet and social media could promote my professional profile as a researcher. I am hoping next steps of these 23 Things give me more and more confidence to share my thoughts, my dreams, my interests with other people!!!

Stay Curious!

The experience of taking a look of my online presence was a little bit 'strange' as I was curious about what I could come up. Honestly, exploring my own online profile and thinking of how I could develop my 'personal brand' had never crossed my mind before now. However, living in the digital age means that you build your everyday presence along with your online presence. So, you have just to reconcile yourself with the fact that anyone could have access to your online profile and the only way to handle this is to take action and protect strategically your anonymity. Through the 23 Things for Research, I hope to have the opportunity to consider my online presence on the social platforms and 'curate' my existing online profile in order to keep my professional goals and my individual desires in balance.

Stay connected ... to your research

Nowadays dissemination is acknowledged as an important component of the research process. Crowdsourcing tools, webinar tools, scheduling tools and data sharing tools could all be invaluable in disseminating one's research work. Crowdsourcing could be useful in the areas of psychology, but not directly in my current research project. In general, engaging the public in the world of science could be interesting and a potentially effective approach. In fact, it means that research community calls the public to be involved in a particular research effort. The concept is: "Let's recognise and incorporate the citizen science into our research". I regard Webinars and specifically Hangout and Skype as the most important tools to connect researchers, participants and generally all people together. My supervisors, my colleagues and I regularly hold meetings over Skype or Hangout. The distance does not still matter in the age of the Internet. Scientists are able to com...

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