Writing and publishing tools

This guest post is drafted by Martijn Roelandse and Anita Bandrowski from SciCrunch. It highlights the unique features offered by SciCrunch to researchers, with a special emphasis…

You can also listen to this article as an audio recording. Last week, I began to do some basic research for a new project I am planning. Of course, like every other…

Every scientist knows the pain caused by journal rejection. To ensure compliance, researchers need to modify manuscripts based on the referee suggestions. In certain cases,…

Manuscripts provide novel insights that reflect the authenticity and originality of the work when writing and sharing data. To combat plagiarism in manuscripts, CrossCheck (now…

PubMed Central (PMC) is a free resource that provides access to millions of peer-reviewed articles in the biomedical and life sciences field, mainly from the MEDLINE database. The…

Publishing academic research is one of the ways by which scholars communicate their findings with each other. As with any science, data is collected, analyzed, and presented; it is…

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…

Submitting an academic research article to a journal has been facilitated exponentially by the introduction of electronic/online submission. Once introduced, electronic submission…

The most important job of a journal editor is to ensure that there is a steady flow of high-quality papers. A journal without great content, cannot survive. In order to make sure…

Many publishers now use electronic manuscript submission and peer-review systems to manage their publications and it is important for authors to get familiar with these as it could…

What is a Search Algorithm? In layman’s terms, an algorithm is a set of coding instructions or rules for a computer to follow in completing a calculation or problem-solving…