Productivity Tips for academics

Some Great productivity tips and tricks, such as:

1. My philosophy: Optimize transaction costs.
2. Don't work from home.
3. Eliminate temptation to waste time.
4. Salvage dead time with technology.
5. Get rid of your TV.
6. Consolidate email accounts.
7. Work from a laptop.
8. Use a calendar system.
9. Power-use a smartphone.
10. Turn off instant messaging.
11. Minimize collaboration costs.
12. Use a citation/paper-management system.
13. Procrastinate productively.
14. Iterate toward perfection.

http://matt.might.net/articles/productivity-tips-hints-hacks-tricks-for-grad-students-academics/

Free Book: 42 Fallicies

From:http://blog.talkingphilosophy.com/?p=2139

BY MIKE LABOSSIERE 

As a free gift to the readers of the Talking Philosophy blog, I offer my 42 Fallacies. It is a PDF book containing definitions and examples of 42 common fallacies. I assure you that it is worth every penny.

Book: Publish or Perish

I was sent the following email about the software "Publish or Perish" by the developer after my original posting about the software. Apparently the program has an accompanying book which guides you through the process of using citations as a way to get tenure, promotions, or job offers. I have not read this yet and so far do not endorse it but I thought it might be useful to some readers.

Software: Publish or Perish Citations - Empowering Academics?

Publish or Perish is designed to empower individual academics to present their case for research impact to its best advantage. We would be concerned if it would be used for academic staff evaluation purposes in a mechanistic way.

Publish or Perish is a software program that retrieves and analyzes academic citations. It uses Google Scholar to obtain the raw citations, then analyzes these and presents the following statistics:

Review "Philosopher's Tool Kit" by Aspenson

A quick overview of "The Philosophers Tool Kit" by Steven Aspenson . This article does not address wheather or not philosophy should be understood as method, but rather if a method is assumed would this be useful to a philosopher. If not useful to a philosopher, could it be a useful teaching tool.

Save Money on Books

A good list of where to buy text books online. Although philosophy usually doesn't have the outrageous book prices of the disciplines like biology, it is always nice to save some money. Some of these would be great to suggest to incoming students without a clue.

Free Study tools for GRE (Part I)

Some Free online GRE tools

1. syvum
There are a bunch of test questions here as well as online, non-printable flashcards for prefixes and roots.
http://www.syvum.com/gre/

2.  English test
This is specificaly testing you on vocab
http://www.english-test.net/gre/

3. Kaplin
A Free online test. These guys are the best at professional test prep in my opinion. Look into buying one of their books on the GRE.
http://www.kaptest.com/GRE/Explore-the-GRE/gre-practice-test.html

4. Majon
This cite covers most of the information that the kaplin guide I have does.
http://www.majon.com/testprep/

5. Master Your GRE
There are some great free resources from this site. Mostly study questions
masteryourgre.com (Thank you Pro)