New Tool - GradShare: A Graduate Student Community

Quite a few SCUPers are not only working professionals, but also involved in being a graduate student, working toward some additional degree. Even if you're not, and you just work with or need to understand graduate students, you might enjoy GradShare, a "Graduate Student Community," that intends to create and collect a lot of the resources and information that might have kept some of us who are now permanently ABD in the game long enough to complete that doctorate, had our department, advisors, or graduate schools provided something like this.

Frankly, we don't see language on the site saying it is limited to only graduate students, and we think it could be a useful site for anyone who frequently does some literature search or other research. If it becomes a successful and active resource, it could in fact help share some of the burden of academic advising shouldered by administrative professionals in graduate schools. In these days of everyone doing more with less, that should be welcomed. If you can, please share this information with a graduate student or graduate school staffer.

One more new Web-based tool is Deadline Due, a beta of a very simple and easy to use tool that claims to return to you a perfectly formatted Harvard Reference for any complete book title of ISBN number you feed it.