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Most grad students face this dilemma at one point or another: the stipend they receive (if they receive one at all) just isn’t enough to get by. You generally don’t have a lot of time to contribute to an outside job but you need the money,…

You have an article ready to go and you’re anxious to get it published. You know that if you submit to one journal, it could potentially take over a year for it to be published. And, even if it is rejected, you might not know for months.…

Throughout history there always seems to have been a predominant language for communication. Greek once served this role in the ancient Mediterranean until it was displaced by Latin, which was the language of the expanding Roman Empire.…

For many frustrated researchers, the academic publishing industry continues to move at a glacial pace. The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Journal Impact Factor (JIF) has been in use for over four decades, using methodology that…

A History of Huge Contributions to Science If you think back to many of the scientific breakthroughs in the 20th century, a lot of them came from corporate research centers: Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) developed the…

Defining research as "independent" is not as simple as it might first appear. Which criteria are you considering for independence? Freedom of Influence – you have the money and resources to conduct independent research without any…

Capital Compensation When writers are looking to emphasize a word, but they’re not sure if they should bold it, underline it, italicize it, or upper case it, the go-to action seems to be to capitalize its first letter. Unfortunately, the…

The Action Research Process Action research (AR) assumes that the solution to an identified problem can be achieved in multiple cycles of a distinct process. Rather than following the objectivity of the pure scientific method, Action…

An Uncertain Future! Science majors who persisted through to doctoral research are finding that their prospects upon graduation aren’t any better than their peers who studied for business and humanities degrees. In their endless pursuit of…

An Academic Community When we speak of the worlds of academic research and academic publishing, we often refer to the academic community as a collaborative group of professionals committed to discovering more about the world in which we…