Digital tools for researchers

In 2020, there is no shortage of online grammar checkers for general English but rarely does one find a tool that focuses on academic English writing, technical terminology,…

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our lives rapidly, and perhaps one of the biggest examples has been the shift to digital classrooms. Students and teachers who began their…

As of April 20th, Coronavirus has adversely impacted 2.43 million humans directly; the silver-lining is how this unparalleled pandemic has brought together billions in our quest…

Digitalization has changed the landscape of scientific research. Today, researchers can unravel several possibilities just at the click of a button. Out of the plethora of…

Green open access (OA) makes research papers available through an OA repository. Although the peer-review process remains unchanged with regards to the traditional…

Researchers can now use many online tools to promote and share their work. They can also communicate with others, measure the impact of their publications, or access relevant…

Publication identifiers help in finding information on an article or publication using a set of codes. All of us have names and other identifying characteristics and titles;…

Each year, millions of books and journals are published. When researchers need to answer a question, how exactly do they find what they need? In the past, researchers used to…

Knowing a researcher’s name can be useful when trying to find research they had published. Such a search is often conducted by potential or current employers or funding agencies.…

To do research you need money and irrespective of the amount needed or the subject area, funding opportunities must be considered. Finding the right research funding for your…

We all know the scenario: Trawling through the literature databases, you come across an intriguing new article. The article promises to hold the answer to a burning question,…

A Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is a string of letters and numbers that was initially introduced in the year 2000 and is assigned to specific information to enable various search…