Happy New Year!!
As 2009 rolls around, the MyNetResearch team would like to wish the entire community a Happy and Prosperous New Year! May the next year be filled with many personal and professional advancements for you. We thank you for your patronage and look forward to serving you in 2009.

MyNetResearch continues to expand its membership rolls. We continue to receive members from every continent- PhD Students, faculty members, and corporate researchers.

Welcome to all the new members. The MNR community is now close to 4,000 members strong from 95 countries!

New Year Premium Membership Sale
To celebrate the New Year, MyNetResearch is discounting its Premium Memberships by 50% for a limited time. Purchase a Premium membership for $6.95 (1 month), $14.95 (3 months). $24.95 (6 months), and $44.95 (12 months) until January 20, 2009 and take advantage of our massive savings!

MyNetResearch is Seeking Sales Affiliates
We are offering 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 Usage Tips-My Projects module
My Projects Module (Horizontal Toolbar)
My Projects

• Provides the list of projects you are involved in
• Projects can be sorted by Name of Project, Owner (Project Manager), Start Date, End Date, Stage and Days Remaining

Invitations from other researchers

• Quick access to invitations sent by other members inviting you to join their projects

Project Statistics

• Provides statistics on projects, completed time, average completion time by stage and collaborators (Premium member feature)

How can I create a Project?  Login (Home); Click on “My Projects”    

• Project creators are referred to as Project owners.  They are the only ones who can modify the project that they created
• An owner can archive project at any stage
  - Click Create a New Project
  - Enter information in all required fields (Name; End Date; Description)and Click Create Project

MNR Help is always available.  Log into your MyNetResearch account and click on “Help” at the top right of the page.

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

FOCUS OF THIS BOOK
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, e.g., MyNetResearch 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.

Topics: We invite researchers and practitioners to contribute chapters to this unique and very timely reference source. Chapters will be no more 5,000 words, contain no more than 25 references, 3-4 tables, 3-4 figures. Chapters will be double-blind peer reviewed to ensure rigor and relevance.

This call for chapters seeks foundation-building research on e-research collaboration issues in the Arts and Humanity, Social and Behavioral sciences, Life Sciences, Engineering, Medicine and Business disciplines. 

Interdisciplinary works as well as industry-academic joint research efforts are especially welcome.  For the full description of this Call for Chapters, go to: http://www.mynetresearch.com/Resources.aspx?id=%2012

MNR Announcements
MNR University Representative
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.

Tell Your Institutions - Build our 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. 

Best Regards from the MyNetResearch Team!!