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Following the Instructions to Authors will ensure that the publication of your manuscript is rapid and efficient. The responsibility of adhering to guidelines and ensuring that the paper is within the scope of the target journal lies solely…

In 2008, SPARC and its partners in the student community established the International Open Access Week to increase the visibility of research and the impact it has on the community as a whole. Each year the Open Access Week has a unique…

Even the most carefully constructed research studies can fall apart once the data has been collected. A flawless literature review can identify a perfectly valid research question and develop a robust hypothesis to be tested. The data can…

As academic publishing has made the transition from print editions to electronic editions, librarians, facing leaner budgets and an inability to deselect specific low-interest journals from massive packages, have begun to push back with…

It used to be so easy to plan. Discover your love for science at a young age, work through all the math and science courses to find the area you like the best, work hard through your undergraduate and graduate studies, and finally embark on…

The Open Access Week, a global event promoting open access publishing is now in its ninth year—and all the efforts made during this time to support this initiative seems to have paid off. A recent report shows that the number of open access…

After writing your paper, once you determine the important arguments, read through the text to look for points that do not address your research. Eliminate words and phrases that add no meaning, but be careful to not lose the essence of…

When writing a paper, we often get caught up between maintaining the word count limitation by the journal and not compromising on the content. This is especially challenging when writing the Abstract. Here we provide some tricks to help you…

During the second Peer Review Week in 2016, there were extensve discussions on how the institution of peer review is far from perfect. The problems with peer review in scientific publishing are well known: it is inefficient and tedious for…

In academia when we consider the term “non-traditional”, the concept of a non-traditional student (NTS) comes to mind. A great deal of attention and resources have been devoted to winning these NTS’s since they have a unique set of learning…