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A Rapid Communication (RC) or Short Communication is a scientific paper that is published swiftly and is of a shorter length than an original research article. Scientists use this format when they have findings that need to be shared…

The open access–journal publishing trend has hit the world of academic book publishing. The traditional business model for monograph publishing is lagging behind the others in the industry, and academic publishers are becoming more and more…

BioRxiv is modeled after arXiv, a preprint server for the physical sciences. BioRxiv has only been in existence for three years but it currently hosts more than 10,000 manuscripts from 55,000 authors from more than 90 countries. Adding to…

Open access (OA) publishing means allowing access to published articles without a fee or costly subscriptions, a concept well received by researchers, scholars, and libraries, but not by some publishers, for obvious reasons. According to…

The age-old adage for researchers: publish or perish might be true in a competitive academic track, but it does not foster a community of meaningful science. A scientist ought to know how their work is being received and who is reading it.…

In recent times, open access publishing has been gaining popularity in the scholarly community from funders, research organizations, universities, publishers, and researchers due to it making research accessible to all. So what exactly is…

The time for the annual Council of Science Editors (CSE) meeting is almost upon us. The 2017 CSE Annual Meeting will occur in San Diego, the United States from May 20-23. This will be the 60th anniversary meeting of the Council for Science…

In just a few short years, Publons membership has reached more than 80,000, comprising of researchers, editors, and publishers, and by December 2016, that number rose to a solid 100,000 expert reviewers! At present, they currently have over…

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 quantitative study is objective and based on hard data. Most research…

LaTeX is a document preparation system based on a typesetting system called “TeX”, developed by Donald Knuth (Professor Emeritus at Stanford University) in 1974. The word TeX finds its origins in the Greek word for art/skill/craft (and is…