I am Elodie Ekoka, a PhD student at the Wits Research Institute for Malaria, University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa) and I’d like to share a few simple life lessons I have learned thus Read More
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You must have come across the word “resilience” in many situations where the intent is to inspire or motivate someone to pursue their goals with persistence and determination. Resilience is the ability to beat the Read More
Around 600 members of U.S. scientific community, including 4 Nobel Laureates, have signed a letter that urges research institutions in the country to be more transparent and open with their animal research. The open letter was Read More
Political tensions between the U.S. and China have escalated to a new level following the former’s claims that China has been involved in intellectual property theft and China’s announcement of its plans Read More
The volume of research output has grown exponentially worldwide in the recent years. In 2016, close to three million papers were published by researchers all around the globe, as per the recently published report by the Read More
Authors are at the heart of academic publishing, but their voices are underrepresented in discussions about improving the academic publishing system. To understand the viewpoints of authors on various aspects of academic publishing and the Read More
Your one-stop resource to writing a great research paper Writing a research paper is a challenging job for most of us — from conceptualizing the paper, to breaking it down to its constituent parts, Read More
The month of May has rushed past us, and a lot has transpired on the scholarly communication and academic publishing front. If you have been too busy to catch the buzz, do not worry! Our Read More
China, one of the leading countries in scientific research, is working proactively to ensure that the researchers in the country abide by the highest standards of academic integrity. On May 30, 2018, the ruling Communist Party and Read More
The conflict between publishers and consortia around the world is showing no signs of ending. After the consortia (including universities and libraries) in Germany, France, and the Netherlands failed to renew their contracts with academic Read More