Here are some of my favorite academic resources.
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A Field Guide to Grad School: Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum
An essential handbook to the unwritten and often unspoken knowledge and skills you need to succeed in grad school.
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How to find, read and organize papers
In Nature Careers, Maya Gosztyla provides an excellent guide to getting your paper system set up, including using software like Zotero and integrations like Notero to help organize with Notion.
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Grad School Survival Guide: How to Read
A great short guide by Christopher S Rose on how to read in an effective way to identify the argument, why it matters, and how to be able to assess an author’s argument.
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How to undertake a literature review
Raul Pacheco-Vega, Ph.D., breaks down a very helpful 6 step process for conducting a proper literature review. His whole website is full of excellent resources. Definitely check it out!
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Video: Sync Zotero to Notion
A great tool from YouTuber/Ph.D. student Holly Jane on how to integrate Zotero to Notion with Notero. The installation can be complex if you look on GitHub; this step-by-step tutorial made the process seamless!
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Connected Papers
Brilliant tool to help explore connected papers in a visual graph. It’s excellent for building a bibliography or exploring a new area.
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Open Knowledge Maps
Similar to Connected Papers, this is an open tool that helps you visualize your scientific or academic search. Do a keyword search, and it shows all the studies in clusters of linked themes or salient patterns.