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Behind each reach study, there are research proposals that are either rejected or accepted, conference papers, posters, PhD theses, project reports, new workflows, and endless…

A graduate student who works with me once remarked that he “wasn’t very good at doing literature searches.” I replied that researchers often spend as much time in the library as…

In Search of Freedom! We’ve been using keyboards since Christopher Latham Stoles developed the first QWERTY design for the typewriter in 1872, but it took another century before…

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…

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…

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

Addressing Data Limitations Having access to large volumes of big data is usually considered to be a significant advancement in research. Yet, unless that data is coded and stored…

It's Complicated: Defining Digital Humanities Arriving at an authoritative definition of Digital Humanities (DH) is particularly difficult when those directly involved in the…

It Started with So Much Promise When Google Scholar (GS) first launched in November 2004, the academic search engine seemed to offer so much promise — the ability to search…

The Case for Unique Identifiers The need for unambiguous identification of authorship goes beyond simply avoiding the problem of how many "John Smiths" there are in the world.…