Academic research was once the domain of librarians in universities. Their expertise and ability to make analytical connections among and within fields of study played a critical…
Plagiarism is a serious issue in higher education and in academic publishing and at times can be difficult to identify. The deliberate misrepresentation of one’s written work by…
Whether a scientist is an expert in a field or a new student asked to design experiments on a new research topic, Open Knowledge Maps are indispensable visualization tools that…
We all know the scenario: Trawling through the literature databases, you come across an intriguing new article. The article promises to hold the answer to a burning question,…
A Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is a string of letters and numbers that was initially introduced in the year 2000 and is assigned to specific information to enable various search…
The main software programs currently available to the scientific community for handling citations and manipulation of literature files are Mendeley, EndNote, ReadCube, Zotero, and…
A multilingual document search engine called Omnity could make interdisciplinary research easier. This tool was launched in May 2016 and is based on semantic mapping, thereby…
Research in Life Sciences is based on experimental protocols. In order to answer the questions in a manuscript, researchers have to think of a biological object, which process they…
Traditionally, the concept of publishing an article was mainly centered around the academic journal. These journals set the stage for how academic research was disseminated among…
Yewno is a new search engine that claims to mimic the workings of the human brain. In contrast to traditional tools, such as Google, Yahoo, or Bing, which are based on keyword…
Reaxys is a web-based tool that was launched in 2009 and is licensed by Elsevier. It allows chemists to retrieve chemistry information and data from published literature, such as…
There are nearly two million articles published each year, so how will you be able to make your paper stand out and visible to other researchers? With more research being…