What resources would be useful?

Hi! 

We're soon going to be looking at adding lots more resources to the AuthorAID site.  We'd like to make sure that the resources we provide are genuinely useful, so does anyone have any feedback on what sort of help or information they'd like to see on the AuthorAID site?  (e.g. how-to guides, presentations, links to other organisation, links to journals etc).

Best wishes,
Stuart

Dear Stuart,

I would like to put in a plug for my own not-for-profit website, The Research Cooperative, which I set up primarily in response to the problems I have seen here in Japan, where researchers struggle to find suitable editors, translators and so on - despite belonging to one of the world's wealthiest countries.

My site is international but under-resourced and to some extent aspires to become what has already been created with AuthorAid. However, I have built it from scratch, based on my own experience, and would like to see if it will succeed as a specialised form of social networking site. If you can see an appropriate place to refer to it, from Autho Aid, I would be very grateful.

I believe your site has important and useful resources for research writers everywhere, not just in developing countries, so I will definitely make a link to it from the Research Cooperative.

Please let me know if it is not OK to incorporate your logo into the link.

Also, I am the co-editor of a conference volume entitles "Research Writing in Japan: Cultural, Personal and Practical Perspectives": published by the National Museum of Ethnology, Japan. I would like to send a copy to AuthorAid, as it may have material of interest for you.

Thanks

Hi Peter,

I've had a look at your site and it's a really interesting approach to addressing the problems which researchers face in getting published and otherwise communicating their work. We don't have a links page yet, but the link in your post goes to The Research Cooperative page. We would be very happy for you to link to us.

I will also be in touch by email to discuss other ways we may be able to cooperate.

All the best,

Julie