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There is a general understanding that social software is playing an increasingly important role in our day-to-day life both at our work place and in our private life.

The definition of social software includes a range of technologies, among which is social networking, social media, and social collaboration.

With so many types of reference software available, researchers might find it difficult to find the the right one. However, the new software Mendeley seems to have hit the nail hard on the head.Mendeley lets you create your own online digital library of research papers and academic resources by organizing each document intuitively by author, journal or keyword.

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The following 12 journals are now available at the AsiaPortal's academic resources in full text:

Danmark kan tjene millioner, hvis forskerne på universiteter og læreanstalter lægger deres rapporter gratis ud på nettet. Det viser en ny undersøgelse fra DEFF, Danmarks Elektroniske Fag- og Forskningsbibliotek.

Researchers want to improve, not replace peer review, according to preliminary findings from an international surveys of authors and reviewers, the Peer Review Survey 2009. According to the findings, 84 per cent of respondents believe that without peer review there would be no control in scientific communication, but only a third think it is the best that can be achieved. Furthermore, 20 per cent of researchers believe that peer review is unsustainable because there are not enough willing reviewers.

Den norske regjerings Indiastrategi ble lansert 28. august 2009. Med dette markerer Norge økt satsing på India.

En ny verdensorden?

Asia blir stadig viktigere i global politikk og økonomi. For at Norge best skal kunne hevde sine interesser i fremtiden, ønsker Regjeringen å bygge sterke økonomiske og politiske bånd til det nye Asia. Den nye Indiastrategien er et ledd i dette arbeidet. Fra før har Regjeringen lansert en Kinastrategi.

Styrket politisk dialog

In 2008 NIAS LINC received a NORDBIB grant for the project: Open Access: Networks and knowledge dissemination in Nordic Asian Study Institutions. One of our important findings during the project was that researchers from small disciples seem to be persisting with well-established practices; through in principle they support Open Access, many still harbour doubts. The powerful influence of research community opinion necessitates a through debate based on the community's research tradition and social practice. Moreover, they also seem reluctant to store their research

Please have a look at the exciting blips, blogs and tweets from the EADI Information Management Workhop 10 to 12 June 2009. It is a good exsampel on how you can create content and report from a meeting using simple tools and exsisting services.

http://imwg2009.blogspot.com/

Anja

In the V and last session of the 2009 Gendering Asia Conference: Cross border Marriage chaired by Cecilia Milwertz, Hyunok Lee, Cornell University talks about Noe Familialism in the Neo Liberal Era: Cross border marriage and issues around social reproduction followed by Junya Tsutsui, Ritsumeikan University: Asymmectric Mixture: Determinants of the attitude towards intermarriage in Japan

During Session IV at the Gendering Asia 2009 conference we will listen to Cecilia Milwertz, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies talk about Construction gender and development "NGOs" - the controlling party-state, the invisible saviour donor and blank surfaces. Hingwei Bao, University of Sydney presents a paper on Chinese women through the queer lens: feminism, lesbian exixtance and ethnicity in Women 50 minutes. He will show the film Saturday.