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Stephen W. Hawking, the scientist who captured the world’s imagination with his genius mind and exceptional grit, died at the age of 76 on March 14. While battling a…
China is poised for yet another phase of changes in its science policy. Top political leaders in the country are busy holding the two most important assemblies of the…
Research in many subject areas or fields involves the collection, archiving, and analysis of large amounts of data. From graduate students to veteran professors,…
Do you know what journal editors want from you? In this post a journal editor talks about how the predatory publishing and academic hijacking are very much like street…
Just about two weeks to go for the 2018 Asian-Pacific conference of the International Society of Managing and Technical Editors (ISMTE), and we sure are looking forward…
The world of academia has caught the social media bug. Academics across varying career stages have taken to using Twitter to share a variety of messages, both…
Although the month of February is typically shorter, there has been no dearth in the buzz in the scholarly world. From trending discussions around the definition of the…
Academic publishing and scholarly communications: Good reads, February 2018
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Academia has traditionally been perceived as a dull world that has no room for humour and fun. But such an opinion is far from the truth. Putting such misconceptions to…
PaperHive is a free web platform for researchers to transform reading of scientific research articles into a social and active collaboration. Understand how you can…
Sci-Hub, the site that provides free access to pirated academic papers, hit a bumpy road last year when it was ordered to pay damages worth $15 million to Elsevier and…