The Impact of the Academic Job Market on PhD Students
The Academic Bubble
As a graduate student seeking a position in a doctoral research program, your field of vision may not extend too far beyond the end of your nose. You have…
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Experts’ Take: Can Sciencescape Help Researchers Stay Current With the Literature?
The one disadvantage of the explosion of scientific publishing is the problem it presents for researchers seeking to stay up to date with the latest results in their area of…
Experts’ Take: Managing Research Articles With ReadCube
ReadCube is a desktop and browser-based research tool, which organizes and manages data. You run it from your own computer and it uses Google Scholar, PubMed, and Microsoft…
4 Techniques for Efficient Data Aggregation
As the volume of published academic research material continues to grow, the prospects for new researchers looking to navigate through all of that data in order to compile a…
Experts’ Take: Trends in Biomedical R&D Funding
Two recent papers on worldwide biomedical R&D spending have some good news and some bad news for researchers in the field. For researchers in Europe and North America the news…
Basic or Applied Research: Should You Chase a Trend?
Consider Your Purpose
Passion for a research topic can get you through some tough spots when you’re struggling with your hypothesis, buried under articles for your literature…
Experts’ Take: Will Kudos Help Get Your Work Read and Cited?
Researchers are always looking for ways to increase the reading and citing of their publications. Kudos is a web-based service that aims at helping them do just that.
On Kudos,…
Experts’ Take on ORCID
What’s in a name? Nothing, according to Shakespeare, but a researcher thinks otherwise. We want credit for our work and don’t want to give credit to anyone else, or take credit for…
What Does the Future Hold for Academic Libraries?
The Coming "Biblioclasm"?
Academic librarians facing the rapid onslaught of digitization of their collections could be forgiven for turning Luddite and comparing the trend to the…
Is There Such a Thing as “Basic” Research Anymore?
What is Basic Research?
In simple words, basic research (also known as pure research or fundamental research) is conducted with the sole objective of contributing to existing…
Will PDA Model Save Academic Libraries?
It’s about Wants Vs. Needs!
For centuries, retailers have struggled with this classic inventory problem. That if you carry enough items in your bag, prospective customers will get…
What Is Transformative Consumer Research (TCR)?
The Transformative Consumer Research (TCR) Movement
Academic researchers, especially in the field of marketing, have been studying consumer behavior for decades. The promise of…