http://eebatou.wordpress.com/2007/09/08/how-much-is-enough-on-climbing-the-reprint-pile/ Advice on creativity and scholarship--formerly Getting Things Done in Academia Wed, 10 Apr 2013 03:45:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://eebatou.wordpress.com/2007/09/08/how-much-is-enough-on-climbing-the-reprint-pile/#comment-9653 Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:35:34 +0000 http://eebatou.wordpress.com/2007/09/08/how-much-is-enough-on-climbing-the-reprint-pile/#comment-9653 [...] is where your reading comes in. The more you read and the more you dissect papers in study groups, the more you will [...]

]]> http://eebatou.wordpress.com/2007/09/08/how-much-is-enough-on-climbing-the-reprint-pile/#comment-9650 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:09:11 +0000 http://eebatou.wordpress.com/2007/09/08/how-much-is-enough-on-climbing-the-reprint-pile/#comment-9650 This is one of my fave entries so far. I wonder what you’d think of this add-on for Firefox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/201) which snags all the pdfs on a single webpage in a matter of seconds. Great for grabbing entire issues of journals, or from a researcher’s website. And with ISI, corresponding citation info is easy to get. Now a reprint collection can grow MUCH faster than it can be read. My question is: is this a blessing or curse?

]]> http://eebatou.wordpress.com/2007/09/08/how-much-is-enough-on-climbing-the-reprint-pile/#comment-6756 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:29:45 +0000 http://eebatou.wordpress.com/2007/09/08/how-much-is-enough-on-climbing-the-reprint-pile/#comment-6756 [...] Getting Things Done In Academia – How much is enough?  Climbing the reprint pile [”How do you find time to read?”] [...]

]]> http://eebatou.wordpress.com/2007/09/08/how-much-is-enough-on-climbing-the-reprint-pile/#comment-6747 Sun, 09 Sep 2007 13:46:28 +0000 http://eebatou.wordpress.com/2007/09/08/how-much-is-enough-on-climbing-the-reprint-pile/#comment-6747 Wow. You have good advice here that I was asking people around about a few weeks ago, and you have them written out clearly. I’m glad that I’ve found your site. Thanks.

]]> http://eebatou.wordpress.com/2007/09/08/how-much-is-enough-on-climbing-the-reprint-pile/#comment-6745 Sun, 09 Sep 2007 05:38:00 +0000 http://eebatou.wordpress.com/2007/09/08/how-much-is-enough-on-climbing-the-reprint-pile/#comment-6745 Great advice. I’ve become the queen of reading abstracts these days and have found that, until I’m writing and need to reference the articles, that is often sufficient to get me thinking.

]]> http://eebatou.wordpress.com/2007/09/08/how-much-is-enough-on-climbing-the-reprint-pile/#comment-6744 Sun, 09 Sep 2007 02:33:49 +0000 http://eebatou.wordpress.com/2007/09/08/how-much-is-enough-on-climbing-the-reprint-pile/#comment-6744 Great, thanks Mike.

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