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Enago Academy
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What are Digital Humanities?

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…
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Does Research Need a Chief Science Advisor?

Europe’s First CSA At the beginning of 2012, Professor Anne Glover, a Scottish molecular biologist at the University of Aberdeen and former Chief Science Advisor (CSA) for Scotland, was appointed as the first ever CSA to the European…
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The Dangers of Research Patents

What’s the Purpose of A Patent? A patent is a legal title granting any person who “invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof,” the right to…
. 3 mins read
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Open Access: Does Less Equal More?

Bringing Research to the Masses As it reaches its fifteenth birthday, it may still be too early to speak of the "history" of Open Access (OA). Yet, enough time has passed since the day Public Library of Science (PLOS) was launched in 2000.…
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Enago Academy Writer

Should Peer Review Be Transparent?

The anonymity of the peer review process has always been regarded as a key tenet of the quality and integrity of academic publishing. The freedom to comment openly and without fear of retribution, it is argued, frees reviewers from the…
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The Consequences of Flawed Research

Flawed research, as opposed to deliberately fraudulent research, can be looked at from several angles: The original identification of the topic can be based on a poor literature review that places greater emphasis on a perceived gap in…
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How to Manage Cognitive Bias

A Very Plural Bias Speaking in terms of a singular cognitive bias is an inaccurate but widely accepted practice. The term is used to describe inherent errors in thinking and judgment that humans make in processing information on a daily…
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Is the Scientific Method Outdated?

The Scientific Method Modern science is built on a foundation of the assumed purity of the scientific method. The approach has remained unchanged—identify and define a problem, gather relevant data, develop a tentative hypothesis,…
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