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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The Transformative Consumer Research (TCR) Movement Academic researchers, especially in the field of marketing, have been studying consumer behavior for decades.  The promise of…

ORCID is gradually making deeper inroads into the scholarly publishing industry. Recently, to enable author identification and improve the transparency of scientific research,…