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Our friend Martin at UniversityBlog has a very nice collection of good resources up.  Some of them are news to me, and look very useful!  

2. INTUTE: ESRC FESTIVAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE 2008

Between the 7th and 14th of March, Intute’s great Social Sciences Blog had a 10-part series on the best blogs in different subjects (Sociology, Psychology, Law, Elections, Statistics & Data, Economics, Business & Management, International Relations, Europe, and Politics & Government). It was a great series and it’s bound to include forums, sites, and blogs that you were not aware of.

Favourite Blogs in Social Sciences

So swing by the UniversityBlog for some handy new resources!  What other resources do you use that aren’t quite in the mass consciousness yet?

Very nice article from Cal at Study Hacks today on managing your resources when undertaking a major paper.

Study Hacks »  Monday Master Class: How to Build a Paper Research Database
In this article, I’m going to teach you how to build a simplified Branch-style Paper Research Database using Microsoft Excel. I’ll tell you how to format it, populate it, and use it to structure your writing.

He uses MS Excel for this, which is easily accessible for all students in the forms via OpeOffice for everything, or Numbers for Mac users (and a number of variations there of).

Also, though not exactly using this method, one could make use of Zotero (the firefox extension) and I often use a very similar method using the Mac database program Yojimbo (though easily done in programs like OneNote, DevonThink, etc.)