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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…

You may have probably heard about fake papers that made it into peer-reviewed publications over the past few years, but now even fake peer reviews are being generated. A group of Italian scientists recently developed a software that can…

In this age of information overload, there are several ideas that can be considered innovative or can lead to a new scientific development. Given the extent of information that is being accessed, there are several potential ideas that can…

"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again."  – Oscar Wilde The previous post consisted of a collation of the basic rules of comma usage. Continuing in that…