How to Manage Your Research Project
You hear it everywhere: the project was delayed and over-budget. Whether it be bridges, space shuttle launches, or federally funded science projects, poor research project…
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An Introduction to Open Access Publishing
In recent times, open access publishing has been gaining popularity in the scholarly community from funders, research organizations, universities, publishers, and researchers due…
Responses to Author Queries
1. Which types of studies are more preferred - quantitative or qualitative?
A qualitative study is subjective and mainly focuses on philosophies and opinions whilst a…
Open Knowledge Maps: Visualizing Scientific Research
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…
Unpaywall Enables Access to Paywalled Research
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,…
The Human Factor: Its Effect on Manuscript Selection and Handling Time
Any process that has an element of subjectivity to it will be open to claims of bias. From Olympic figure skating judges to academic journal editors, no matter how profound the…
oaDOI: New Search Engine for Open Access Research
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…
ReadCube: Enhancing Scientific Discovery
The main software programs currently available to the scientific community for handling citations and manipulation of literature files are Mendeley, EndNote, ReadCube, Zotero, and…
Omnity: A New Multilingual Search Engine for Academics
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…
Protocols.io: Online Protocol Repository Supporting Academic Research
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…
Article-level Innovations in Academic Publishing
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 for Education: A New Approach to Knowledge Discovery
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…