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MyNetResearch Passes the 5000-Member Mark!!
We are proud to announce that our membership has exceeded 5,000 members!! This is a great milestone for us all. We are now the largest research community in the world - researchers from academia and industry, and from 95 countries. As I write this morning, our membership actually stands at 5,100 members.

Congratulations first, to you- members of MNR, to the MyNetResearch Team, to our Board of Advisers, Editorial Board, our Campus Representatives and to our friends and supporters. Please continue to send in ideas for improvements to me, the Senior Editor, at barinze@mynetresearch.com.

Let's continue to grow our community. If we all brought in a colleague, we could double the size of the community overnight! For the month of March, if a new member emails me at the above address with your username (or email address) as a referrer, we will give you a month's free upgrade (or extension) to Premium Membership.

Aloha to University of Hawaii!!
We are happy to welcome the University of Hawaii, as the latest Institutional member of MyNetResearch. University of Hawaii is a world-class research university that raises the profile of the MyNetResearch community further.

Sharing MyNetReseach
Continue to share MyNetResearch with your own Institution. We are changing the paradigm of research practice and making research more enjoyable and productive.

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
My News (Horizontal Toolbar)
MyNetResearch provides members with the very latest research news across all disciplines through RSS feeds from thousands of news sources and academic journals. After you login to MyNetResearch, click the <My News> Tab to read newsfeeds from your selected discipline and subject. Newsfeeds are an easy and convenient way to keep up with important developments and news across all research areas.

- Discipline and Subject
Specify a discipline and subject to filter the available newsfeed.

- News Feed Titles
A list of sources is presented. Click on the source and lists of articles from the Newsfeed are shown.  To see newsfeeds from another subject, simply select the desired discipline and subject combination.

From the MNR Blog
How Do Research Collaborators Communicate?

According to a recent study, e-mail is the most common medium by which researchers communicate with each other. Less than 4% of the researchers used texting or instant messaging to communicate with their collaborators.  This is surprising, given that over 60% of the population text or use instant messaging.

How do you communicate with your research collaborators? Take this short poll, at: http://is.gd/jOSd

MNR Wiki
The MyNetResearch Wiki is a member-created and managed collection of research consortia. These range from industry consortia and academic consortia to combined industry/academic consortia.  This is a unique research wiki that documents all the projects being carried out by these groups of researchers.

Let the world know about your research consortium by contributing information about your goals, participants, structure, and accomplishments to the Wiki today.

MNR Announcements
MyNetResearch White Paper
The “Go-Green” or “Greening” Movement is especially popular and very important as we all strive to protect the future of our planet.  Greening efforts aim at either how consumers or organizations can “do green” (or how they do not “do green”).  A recent study looked at how researchers can contribute to the "Greening" movement by changing their practices to conduct research using online research portals (Web 2.0 technology) contributing to the reduction in the amount of paper generated in printing and reducing the carbon footprint by reducing travel.  Web 2.0 technologies describe the changing trends in the use of the World Wide Web technology and web design that aim to enhance creativity, communications, secure information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the web.  Read the White Paper here.

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 directly provide 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 (extended to March 30, 2009)
Title: “E-Research Collaboration: Frameworks, Tools and Techniques”
Co-Editors: Book Chapter details here.
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

Best Regards from the MyNetResearch Team!!