by crauter | Dec 12, 2013 | Publishing
Matthias Barth is an early career researcher in sustainability science at the University of Applied Science Ostwestfalen-Lippe in Germany. He blogs about his experiences on “the journey from doing some research in sustainability science to becoming a researcher...
by crauter | Dec 10, 2013 | Open Access, Publishing
Randy Schekman, a US biologist who won the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine this year, says his lab will no longer send research papers to the journals, Nature, Cell and Science. He argues that science is being “disfigured by inappropriate incentives”...
by crauter | Nov 15, 2013 | Open Access, Publishing
bioRxiv (pronounced “bio-archive”) is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. It is operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a not-for-profit research and educational institution. By posting...
by crauter | Nov 15, 2013 | Publishing
Remember the excitement in 2011 when it seemed that neutrinos from CERN were travelling faster than light? One team of researchers decided to investigate a possible – though unlikely – explanation for the results, leading to the following paper [click...
by crauter | Nov 11, 2013 | Library Resources for Research, Publishing
(Image by Lefteris Heretakis on Flickr, reused under Creative Commons CC-By-2.0) If you need to create a research poster, we have some resources which may be of use: Books from the Library [Print only] “Successful Research Projects” = a general research...
by crauter | Nov 6, 2013 | Publishing, Research Impact
The term “altmetrics” was coined in 2010 by Jason Priem, co-founder of ImpactStory and refers to a range of measures of research impact that go beyond citations. In a recent article in Nature, Priem lays out a bold vision of the future: “The article...
