2017

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…

Nearly six months have passed since you submitted your manuscript for peer review. When it finally returns back to you, the editor informs you that the peer reviewers found your manuscript interesting, but not sufficient for publication.…

Peer review is one of the core activities upon which scholarly communication relies. However, the peer review process is typically closed and, as such; peer reviewers rarely receive credit for the invaluable service they provide to the…

The American Chemical Society (ACS) and the Korean Chemical Society (KCS) have established a three-year partnership to honor outstanding Korean chemists. The chosen scientist will be given the ACS-KCS Excellence Award, a cash prize, three…

Figshare is an online repository for research data and allows data to be both discoverable and citable. Recently, Figshare has launched a new tool in collaboration with Springer Nature which is expected to support open research. In 2016,…

New York, USA: Ulatus, the sister company of Enago and one of the leading translation service providers worldwide, launched its Website Localization solution to help global organizations expand their local presence and deliver digital…

There are many protocols in academic writing because of style guides that are focused towards a specific discipline. For example, the Chicago Manual of Style, created by the University of Chicago, applies to all disciplines and presents…

Scientific publishers who rely on a subscription-based business model may be particularly interested in the results of a survey released recently by Kudos. By collaborating with several academic publishing houses, Kudos conducted a survey…

The U.S. government has been without a budget for 2017 since the beginning of this fiscal year (October 2016), however, on April 30, 2017, Congress finally reached a spending agreement for the remainder this fiscal year, which ends on…