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Welcome to IIT Bangalore!
We are happy to welcome Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bangalore, as the latest Institutional member of MyNetResearch. IIT Bangalore is one of the leading universities in the world and brings their world-class research expertise to the MyNetResearch community.

Currently, we have 4,700 members within our community, and growing at a very quick pace. Continue to invite your friends and colleagues to membership of the #1 research website on the planet - our own MyNetResearch community!

Finally, remember to share the availability of MyNetResearch with your Institutions. If you have a contact Administrator who would like to chat with us about MyNetResearch and a free trial site license, pass on their information to us and we will be happy to call them. They can also apply online for a 3-month free trial here.

MNR Usage Tips
Message Center(Horizontal Toolbar)
The Message Center opens up to show you the messages in your Inbox. For easy navigation, Message center toolbar has the options Compose; Inbox; Address Book; Chat; Announcements; Blocked Users; Chat Admin

Inbox lists incoming messages by date received

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From the MNR Blog
Ready for the Stimulus?
What impact will the stimulus bill have?  While there are physical structures ready, many researchers must secure their own funding and funding has been very scarce.  The North Carolina Research Campus, with its three mostly empty buildings outfitted with some of the world's best scientific equipment, could launch projects that would put people to work immediately.  They just need funding. 

The stimulus would provide money to create electronic medical records, identify biomarkers and prevent disease, all specialties of the Research Campus (http://www.salisburypost.com/Area/020509-NCRC-will-compete-for-dollars-and-jobs-in-obama-stimulus-package).  It is hoped that the shift in emphasis from military to medical will take not only the United States, but many around the global from famine to feast.  It is also clear that this work will not be done in isolated labs, but collaboration across disciplines will best take advantage of this rare opportunity.  How will it affect you?

MNR Announcements
MyNetResearch is Seeking Sales Affiliates
We continue to offer exciting new opportunities in 2009 to Sales Affiliates. These affiliates will receive a sales commission for Sales to universities or research institutes. For further details, email: admin@mynetresearch.com

MNR University Representatives
We continue to enlist University Representatives.  As a representative, you will receive a free Premium membership during you appointment and there can be up to 2 appointees per university.  You will be the local enthusiastic face of MNR at your institution, answering questions and sharing the benefits of MNR.  You will also be able to funnel directly back feedback and suggestions to the MNR staff, thus helping to shape the future direction of the MNR community.  Email admin@mynetresearch.com to take advantage of this chance to build your CV.

Discipline Specific Grant-Writing Forums
In the forums, organized by discipline, look out for Calls for Grants identified by our Grants Editor. Each week, look in the discipline forums to find the Calls for Grants, together with ideas for possible proposals.  Interested researchers who coalesce around a grant proposal will receive the assistance of a MyNetResearch facilitator, who will advise collaborators on grant proposals, provide grant templates, and even help with an initial review.  Visit the forums often and look out for new information on grants.

Call for Chapters
Title: “E-Research Collaboration: Frameworks, Tools and Techniques”
Co-Editors:
Murugan Anandarajan, Ph.D., Drexel University, ma33@drexel.edu
Asokan Anandarajan, Ph.D., New Jersey Institute of Technology, asokan.anandarajan@njit.edu
Publisher: Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg

FOCUS OF THIS BOOK
With advancements of information and communication technologies, physical boundaries of local social networks have evaporated.  Online social networks replicate and enhance the benefits of traditional social networks across time and space and accelerate and globalize the process. The collaboration efforts among researchers in this environment are called e-research collaboration.  E-Research Collaboration can be defined as: the use of information communication technologies which enable the collaboration among individuals/group engaged in a research project.  These technologies can range from email to enterprise packages and online software services.

While we have seen the unprecedented growth of social networking tools such as MySpace, Facebook and Linkedin, these were primarily designed for social purposes. It is only in the last year that we have begun to see the emergence of research-based social networking tools. These tools, for example, MyNetResearch and 2Collab, can facilitate collaborative environments to orchestrate interaction within networks of researchers, partners, and customers to boost creativity and innovation. E-Research collaboration technologies can supply seamless connectivity to allow work anywhere and anytime.
The mechanisms of e-research collaboration are an emergent phenomenon.  We invite researchers to submit analytical, case study, conceptual, experiential ethnographic or narrative papers to enhance our understanding of the frameworks, practices and tools and techniques in e-research collaboration.

Best Regards from the MyNetResearch Team!!