How to Gather Information for Your Research Smartly
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…
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Using Speech Recognition Software in Your Research
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…
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…
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…
How ORCID is Changing the Publishing Landscape
ORCID is gradually making deeper inroads into the scholarly publishing industry. Recently, to enable author identification and improve the transparency of scientific research,…
Microsoft Algorithm FaST-LMM — How Does it Help Researchers?
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…
What are Digital Humanities?
It's Complicated: Defining Digital Humanities
Arriving at an authoritative definition of Digital Humanities (DH) is particularly difficult when those directly involved in the…
Effective Use of Google Scholar for Your Academic Research
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…
ORCID Vs. ISNI: Is There Room for Both?
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.…
Are Digital Lab Books Right for Researchers?
Digital lab notebooks have been available to record research for many years but their shortcomings have prevented them from being widely accepted. But that may be changing now. New…