Digital tools for researchers

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…

The main software programs currently available to the scientific community for handling citations and manipulation of literature files are Mendeley, EndNote, ReadCube, Zotero, and…

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…