Would you like the research to read itself to you?

You may have heard me say in the past that one short cut you can never take is with the reading. After all the clever searching, the tricks and the uses of technology, at some point you have to sit down and just read.

Well I've recently discovered that in some cases that isn't entirely true.

There are some journal articles on DISCOVER that'll read themselves to you.

Interested? Thought so.

Here's what you do:

1) Search DISCOVER as usual with appropriate keywords.

2) Select any journal articles that offer html (not pdf's) as a full text option.

3) Click on the orange play button to hear the article in a choice of accents. You can even save them as MP3's.

4) The screenshot below shows you what it should look like.

5) Don't make me regret showing you this! If I hear any stories from lecturers that students are only using articles that are html formatted I'll know why.

6) You're welcome.