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Contributing to the Academic Community Advocates argue that the contribution made by the peer review process to academic publishing is chronically undervalued. Leveraging the desire of experienced reviewers to give back to the academic…

What Is Net Neutrality? The foundation of the Internet was laid by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in the late 1960s, when a communications network was created between four local host computers. But since those days of the…

The Power of a Tweet When the online social networking service called Twitter was launched in March 2006, there was some skepticism about the value of a 140-character message called a tweet. Less than 10 years later, Twitter has 288…

Addressing Data Limitations Having access to large volumes of big data is usually considered to be a significant advancement in research. Yet, unless that data is coded and stored in a manner that facilitates extraction, the volume issue…

A google search on how to improve your English grammar gives about 9 million results in less than a second. Since English is the undeclared lingua franca in academic research, any article that intends to help you improve your English…

Assessing how rare scientific misconduct might be within the broader scientific research community would be virtually impossible. A scientific misconduct cannot be identified until it has been discovered. There are several cases of…

METRICS: A Little Backdrop In 2005, the Public Library of Science (PLoS) Medicine journal published a paper by Greek researcher Dr. John Ioannidis entitled “Why most published research findings are false.” The paper went on to become the…

Consistency is the Mantra! The Scientific Method is built upon the assumption that no matter how far outside the box an observation may seem, the assessment can always be validated by the subsequent testing and refinement of hypotheses.…

A Changing Mission Research libraries have long considered their primary user base to be the students and faculty of the institution that funds their existence. Over time, technology has enabled greater collaboration that goes beyond…

It's Complicated: Defining Digital Humanities Arriving at an authoritative definition of Digital Humanities (DH) is particularly difficult when those directly involved in the field have yet to arrive at a consensus of what it means. Some…