Research
General Tips
- Where to start
- Industry tips
- SPS tips
- Career talk by Tom Hacker
- Project Timeline
- Faculty and Grad Salary Calculator (MS Excel worksheet)
Partial list of web tool links
Academic:
General
Utilities
Travel
Information on Purdue proposals and awards
Internet/telephone conferencing
Purchasing hardware/software
Library / digital library resources
- Purdue University Research Repository (PURR)
- Purdue e-Pubs: a permanent digital repository for publications
- Purdue storage preservation resources
Access to electronic library resources
- General resource search (you may need to log in to access digital resources)
- IEEE Xplore: (if you are on campus, you can access digital content, otherwise you need to go through the Purdue Library link for access)
- ACM Digital Library: (same access as IEEE Xplore)
Good books on faculty life
- Advice for New Faculty Members
- Having Success with NSF: A Practical Guide
- The Elements of Style (especially good for new scholars)
- Professors as Writers: A Self-Help Guide to Productive Writing
- Writing Successful Science Proposals
NSF Links
- Volunteer as an NSF reviewer
- Grant Proposal Guide (GPG) (this is for preparing proposals)
- Searching for NSF awards: (simple search)
- Searching for NSF awards: (advanced search)
- Historic NSF funding rate, awards, decision time by program, division, and state (2005 to today)
Publishing
- Computing (systems) conference historical acceptance rates
- Predatory open access publishers and journals
- Science Citation Index (SCI) to search for journal impact factor
- Google Scholar and Google Books
- Norwegian Journal Ranking (NSD)
- Advice on writing a technical paper
- WifiCFP (search and post conference call for papers)