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The journal editors were in a bind. There’s a flux of new submissions and each is better than the other. On the one hand, they liked the 4 submissions from one author whose articles were topical, showed promise, and were well-written. While…
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The Open Access Movement Is Here To Stay, And How?
With the scholarly publication models evolving over the years, Open Access—a model of Open Science is making the publishing dynamics more accessible, transparent, and collaborative. However, researchers across the globe have refrained…
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The Influence of Open Access Publishing on Researchers and Their Attitude Towards the…
The impact and influence of open access publishing are evident with the surge in the number of preprints since 2020—the year that brought everything to a standstill except the scientific research and publishing industry. Hence, owing to…
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STM Trends Forecasts Substantial Increase of Open Access With its Theme — “The Beauty of Open at…
The annual STM Trends have made a return continuing its future-forward look at the scholarly communications ecosystem. Forecasting the surge of Open Access in the next three to five years, the STM Association has released its theme for this…
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Are Reference Managers Enough to Organize and Curate Different Scholarly Knowledge Resources?
I pulled my collar up, my hat down, and secured my glasses when I realized that most of the literature I downloaded is now saved on my reference manager and is easily accessible to me. Little did I know, the collation of this vast data on…
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How to Scan Through Millions of Articles and Still Cut Down on Your Reading Time — Why not do it…
Researcher 1: “It’s flooding articles every time I switch on my laptop!”
Researcher 2: “Why don’t you categorize your downloaded data?”
Researcher 1: “I have. But the amount of data is enormous. Where should I even start from?”…
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Finding Relevant Scholarly Research for Literature Review: How can we be systematic?
On an average, it takes 15 clicks for a researcher to find an article (which may or may not be related to their research topic) online. This time is not productive because it does not help them gain any knowledge and it could potentially be…
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What If You Could Explore, Store, and Read Scholarly Research Data on a Single AI-based Platform?
“How am I supposed to organize all this information?”
“How should I prioritize which paper to read first?”
These are some of the thoughts that run through a researcher’s mind when they begin a scholarly research paper or a literature…
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Write an Error-free Research Protocol As Recommended by WHO: 21 Elements You Shouldn’t Miss!
Principal Investigator: Did you draft the research protocol?
Student: Not yet. I have too many questions about it. Why is it important to write a research protocol? Is it similar to research proposal? What should I include in it? How…
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Google Scholar Releases 2022 Scholar Metrics
Sorted by h-index over the last 5 years, Google Scholar released its scholar metrics for 2022. Google Scholar Metrics provide a simple way for authors on a single platform to gauge the visibility of research articles in scholarly…
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