Articles, tips, and notices for postgraduate research students at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) and beyond.
Semantic Scholar is a free literature search tool developed by the Allen Institute of AI (nicknamed AI2), a non-profit research institute. It has had a meteoric rise to prominence recently. […]
Editor’s note: this article, published in 2020, makes reference to a previous edition of the AUT Postgraduate Handbook that is now out of date. The most recent edition can be […]
For researchers, working-from-home often means working-on-writing. If you’re tackling your thesis writing during this lockdown (and beyond), AUT Library’s Academic Writing Advisors have a range of online workshops just for […]
Attention all incoming PG research students! (And those wishing to brush up on their EndNote skills.) The Library is running an EndNote for Researchers workshop this afternoon, 2-4pm in the […]
When you start scoping out a new research project, you’re often encouraged to look for a ‘gap’ in the literature. Once you find something that hasn’t been done yet, so […]
Have you ever had to read a journal article or book that made you go: WHAT THE $!%? That made you shake your head, re-read four times, and question the […]
The written thesis is its own unique genre. It is a kind of academic writing, but it’s different to undergraduate essay writing; and different to academic journal writing, too. Part […]
I don’t like confrontation. Don’t like stepping on toes. I don’t complain when I get bad service, and even in the anonymity of the internet, I don’t leave negative reviews […]
Have you ever gone on an article downloading spree? It’s great – it’s like online shopping for academics. Only instead of drinking too much wine and overspending on TradeMe, you […]
This post by Dr. Julia Hallas first appeared on Thesislink in May 2016. “Never use references that are older than three years” was the advice given by a journal article […]
Have you ever read a scholarly article or book and thought: what utter rot! If so: good. As brand new undergrads, we are taught to think of scholarly materials as […]
We live in amazing times. With a few keystrokes, we can look up any information on any topic from almost any source. As scholars, we have access to even more; […]
