2017

Researchfish was born out of the need to accurately quantify and assess the impact of research that had been supported by grant funding. Originally conceptualized for the United Kingdom, Researchfish now has data from international partners…

ArXiv is an open access repository maintained by the Cornell University Library. Articles deposited in arXiv are subject to moderation by more than 150 subject experts who determine whether or not an article is relevant to the scientific…

Recently, researchers in Germany, Peru, and Taiwan found themselves without access to many online scientific journals. Negotiations with Elsevier, a major scientific journal publisher in The Netherlands, have broken down and without…

A multilingual document search engine called Omnity could make interdisciplinary research easier. This tool was launched in May 2016 and is based on semantic mapping, thereby allowing users to look for information through context rather…

Publications, by their very nature, represent the end of a cycle of research. A set of scientists pose a research question, do some experiments, and arrive at an answer to their question. Papers therefore only tell you where a group of…

Traditionally, academic research frequently existed behind a paywall. This meant that in order to access journal articles, a researcher would have to pay to rent or download an article. Some journals also tend to enforce an embargo period…

You probably spend a fair amount of time searching for relevant journal articles to read and may be seeking to find out what the latest academic research in your area has uncovered. Alternatively, you may be reading in order to help you…

Research in Life Sciences is based on experimental protocols. In order to answer the questions in a manuscript, researchers have to think of a biological object, which process they want to study in it in order to address their question, and…

During the preparation of your research article or thesis, you may choose to include figures and tables to illustrate key points. Similar to using information from a journal or other source, it is important that these items are correctly…

Portable peer review is a model in which the peer review process is conducted without the involvement of the journals, detaching the referee reports from publication in a particular journal. This concept was introduced a few years ago as a…