When an author decides to submit a manuscript for publication, that manuscript begins its life cycle, going through many phases as it is checked, refined and adjusted. Here we follow an article through its life cycle, to understand the different…
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From submission to sharing: the life cycle of an article
Tagged with: article-based publishing, Dissemination and archiving, DOI, Mendeley, peer review, publication process, ScienceDirect
Posted in Academic Writing, Case report, Communication, Editing, Education, Impact Factor, Interdisciplinary research, Journal article, Medical Writing, Open access, Peer Review, Peer-reviewed Journal, Proofreading, Review article, Science and Technology, Scientific writing
Posted in Academic Writing, Case report, Communication, Editing, Education, Impact Factor, Interdisciplinary research, Journal article, Medical Writing, Open access, Peer Review, Peer-reviewed Journal, Proofreading, Review article, Science and Technology, Scientific writing
5 writing tips to get your research the attention it deserves
Your research has been published, and you know that it will change the world. You expect that the press, TV, radio and internet will pick up the wave and it will be like a tsunami – the new discovery that…
How to review manuscripts — your ultimate checklist
This is one of various “Quick Guides” in the Publishing Campus.
Tagged with: Manuscript review, Researcher Relations, ultimate checklist
Posted in Academic Writing, Communication, Education, Journal article, Science and Technology, Scientific editing
Posted in Academic Writing, Communication, Education, Journal article, Science and Technology, Scientific editing
Infographic: Tips for designing better research posters
Research posters are a common way to show the results of your research to the academic community. Researchers present posters at conferences to communicate their work in a summarized form to a broader audience. The research poster must be clear,…
Tagged with: Infographic, posters, Research posters
Posted in Communication, Science, Science and Technology
Posted in Communication, Science, Science and Technology
Post publication peer-review: Everything stays, and changes the same
In the early days of scientific societies (i.e. the 17th century), scientists would share their experimental results with each other at meetings, and receive feedback about their experiments in person. (The scientific journal wasn’t invented until later.) As the scientific…
Tagged with: bling peer review, Open Review, peer review, peer reviewed, post-publication, post-publication peer review, pre-publication, pre-publication peer review, Pre-submission peer review, PubPeer
Posted in Communication, Education, Open access, Peer Review, Review article, Science, Science and Technology, Scientific editing, Scientific Journal
Posted in Communication, Education, Open access, Peer Review, Review article, Science, Science and Technology, Scientific editing, Scientific Journal
The inexorable rise of open access scientific publishing
A new study shows that the rise of open access publishing of academic research is faster than anyone had previously realized. Before 2000 the vast majority of research papers were published in journals that could only be read by academics if…
Why publish science in peer-reviewed journals?
Peer review is commonly accepted as an essential part of scientific publication. But the ways peer review is put into practice vary across journals and disciplines. What is the best method of peer review? Is it truly a value-adding process?…
Electrical brain stimulation may spark a person’s ‘will to persevere’
What gives some people the ability to persevere through difficult situations that others may find insurmountable? The answer is no doubt a complicated one that may be beyond our full understanding, but new research published online today in the Cell Press…
