More discussion on the open access issue from Richard Chappell
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Powerpoint Tips for Philosophers
John Basl is up and blogging again. Here's some useful advice for philosophers using powerpoint.
Read more »Dropbox - Secure backup, sync and sharing made easy.
Dropbox is out of beta (and it even works great in Linux). This is a must have backup/sync tool - especially if you switch between computers. I've already moved everything in my Documents folder to my Dropbox folder. Noteworthy feature: It keeps track of ALL revisions and this doesn't count against your storage limit.
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Google Scholar Library Integration
I don't know if other users are aware of the Library Integration feature that Google Scholar has. I just realized it today. Maybe I'm behind the curve. In any case, this is me singing its praises. If you haven't seen this feature, you need to check it out.
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Research Blogging
Philosophers, you can register your blog with this site. Here's a blurb from the about page***"Do you like to read about new developments in science and other fields? Are you tired of "science by press release"? ResearchBlogging.org is your place. Research Blogging allows readers to easily find blog posts about serious peer-reviewed research, instead of just news reports and press releases."
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Philosophy Journal BibTeX Files
Mark Kalderon's BibTeX sharing idea inspired me to continue compiling BibTeX files for the major philosophy journals. This post has a list of all of the BibTeX files I've made so far.
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Philosophy Feeds + Content Sharing = Netvibes Universe!
Inspired by Mark Eli Kalderon's recent posts about RSS feeds of philosophy journals and the idea of sharing one's electronic bibliographies, I just put 1 and 1 together and had the idea of sharing one's compilations of philosophy feeds online.
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Excursus : Philosophy Feeds

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Excursus : Academic Publishing and RSS Feeds
Why you should be using a newsreader to browse new journal articles
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Sharing BibTeX with Mark Kalderon
Mark Kalderon's got the right idea. Philosophers should be sharing BibTeX files, and Kalderon has an easy method to do it. [HT: Brad Weslake]
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Zotero = Best FireFox Plugin Ever!
I just discovered the best FireFox plugin ever! The Zotero plugin for FireFox is going to make creating, organizing, and using bibliographies incredibly easy for philosophers.
I typed up a little summary of the features here, but you may want to skip this blog post and go straight to zotero.org
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