Ten Top Websites for ResearchersAs recommended by Darren Newbury (editor), The Research Training Initiative, Birmingham Institute of Art & Design
The UK Grad Programme
http://www.grad.ac.uk/This site has a wealth of material on research skills, the development of research careers and so on. It is of use to research students and supervisors.
JISCmail
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/The United Kingdom National Academic Mailing List Service, JISCmail is the hosting service for electronic discussion lists across all subject areas. The website contains information on the many subject based lists and how to join them.
Kovacs Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences
http://www.kovacs.com/directory/An international database of professional and academic electronic discussion lists which can be searched by keyword.
National Postgraduate Committee
http://www.npc.org.uk/The website for the United Kingdom organisation for postgraduate students. The site contains useful information for students, discussion on postgraduate issues, as well as links to further resources and equivalent organisations in other countries.
Resource Discovery Network
http://www.rdn.ac.uk/This is an extensive catalogue of Internet resources for researchers across a wide range of subject areas. Includes online training modules in using the web as a research resource.
BUBL Information Service
http://www.bubl.ac.uk/This is very useful general information resource covering all academic subject areas.
The British Library
http://www.bl.uk/Includes a link to the online British Library Public Catalogue.
ZETOC
http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/alertguide.htmlOnly available to students based in UK institutions, this site allows you to set up an email alerting service for particular journals or user-defined keywords.
NISS: Information for Education
http://www.niss.ac.uk/Very useful general information site, which links to the home pages and library catalogues of all higher education institutions in the UK. The sites also have information on higher education and links to web-based resources across the world.
Google
http://www.google.com/First choice for an Internet search engine.The Internet is now so large and changes so rapidly that it is simply impossible to catalogue its contents across the art, design and media subject range.
Some library sites do a good job of listing subject-based resources (see for example the 'i page' at the London Institute
www.linst.ac.uk/library/), but even these will only cover a proportion of what is available. It is important for researchers themselves to learn to search the Internet effectively, and begin building up their own sets of useful websites based on their specific research interests.
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Brockbank, A. & McGill, I., (1998),‘Reflection and Reflective Practice’, in: Facilitating Reflective Learning in Higher Education, Open University Press, 700-88.
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Clark, K. (2004) Brandscendence: Three essential elements of enduring brands, Dearborn Trade Publishing
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Denzin, N. K. and Lincoln, Y.S. (2003) The Landscape of Qualitative Research: Theories and Issues (2nd edition). Sage (Chapters 1, 6 and Part III) Lincoln Y.S. and Guba E.G. (2003).
Douglas, A. and Scopa, K. (2000) ‘Research through Practice: Positioning the Practitioner as Researcher’ in: Research into Practice, July 1999 –
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Emmison, M. and Smith P. (2000), Researching the Visual: Images, Objects, Contexts and Interactions in Social and Cultural Inquiry, Sage
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Hill, D. (2003) Body of Truth, John Wiley & Sons.
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Jones, J.C.(1992), Design Methods; Seeds of Human Futures, John Wiley & Sons.
Kazmierczak, E.T.(2003), ‘Design as Meaning Making: From Making Things to the Design of Thinking’, in: Design Issues 19(2).
Kiley, D. (2004) Driven: Inside BMW, John Wiley & Sons.
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Lamb, D. (1983), Discovery, Creativity and Problem Solving, Avebury.
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Rugg, G. (2004) The Unwritten Rules of Phd Research, Open University Press.Scheurich, J.J. (1997) ‘The Masks of Validity: A Deconstructive Investigation’ in: Research Method in the Postmodern, Routledge Falmer.
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