Posts filed under ‘Nice websites!’
ResearchGate
ResearchGate is a free professional network for scientists and researchers. A useful resource which provides researchers with access to abstracts and full-texts, forums, methodology discussions, groups. Researchers also can find out about conferences and hunt for jobs. Members can create their personal blog within the network, interact, exchange knowledge and collaborate with researchers of different fields.
Global Agricultural Research Archive
The Global Agricultural Research Archive from CABI aims to archive agricultural knowledge on behalf of developing countries around the world. It contains over 2,700 full text records from its institutional partners in Malawi, Pakistan and the Philippines and papers from the 2008 IAALD conference on agricultural information and IT.
The archive includes journal articles, books, and reports on subjects ranging from crop science to fish farming.
CB Richard Ellis
CB Richard Ellis is the world’s leading commercial real estate advisor. The website offers information on all aspects of commercial and residential property markets. If you click on the Research section you can access lots of free property market reports UK and global, case studies, news and events.
Commission for Rural Communities
The Commission for Rural Communities website provides access to rural issues such as housing, transport, social inclusion and rural enterprise. The website describes its work and governance, gives access to downloadable publications, reports and news, events and blogs and provides links to other relevant resources.
ODI (Overseas Development Institute)
ODI is Britain’s leading independent think tank on international development and humanitarian issues. Their mission is to inspire and inform policy and practices which lead to the reduction of poverty, the alleviation of suffering and the achievement of sustainable livelihoods in developing countries. The site includes publications which are accessible online and are downloadable as PDF files, latest news, a blog and events.
PlagiarismAdvice.org
PlagiarismAdvice.org provides resources, training, advice and guidance to the education sector to help address growing concerns about plagiarism within the UK higher education and further education sectors. The ‘course materials’ section has useful guides for students, sometimes in multiple languages including Chinese. There are useful web links and case studies.
www.plagiarismadvice.org/resources.html
Grazing Animals Project
GAP website is a UK-wide partnership network of practitioners and advisers from the nature conservation, agricultural and livestock sectors. Publications can be downloaded. There are news/events and various useful links to websites and resources.
Land Use Policy Group (LUPG)
This website describes the work of the Land Use Policy Group (LUPG) a group composed of statutory conservation, countryside and environment agencies. LUPG aims to advise on policy common interest related to agriculture, woodlands and other rural land uses. The site also includes good set of pdfs to download and information on current projects, publications, and further links.
Engage
A new, interactive website for biosciences undergraduates. It covers the basic areas of research, including how and where to search for scientific papers, how to structure a literature review, basic statistics and much more.
LandIS
LandIS, the ‘Land Information System’, is a substantial environmental information system operated by Cranfield University, UK, designed to contain soil and soil-related information for England and Wales including spatial mapping of soils at a variety of scales as well as corresponding soil property and agro-climatological data. LandIS is the largest system of its kind in Europe and is recognised by UK Government as the definitive source of national soils information.
The National Soil Resources Institute (NSRI) maintain this extensive geographic database of land related data, covering England and Wales.
