From time to time somebody will ask me which on-line platform for academic researchers is, in my opinion, worth investing time in. Where does it pay to set up a personal profile up and share some information? This question is increasingly hard to answer, since […]
This guest post was authored by Milena Dobreva.[1] Do you really need a load of gold to pay for a gold open access publication? Last week a colleague was asking how to find good quality open access journals with reasonable fees in his research domain. […]
Research has produced evidence that using Twitter in the teaching process might increase students engagement, and therefore improve teaching effects. So how to use this Social Media platform in teaching? I recently came across a post on Impact of Social Science blog, summarizing a conference […]
On the occasion of the Peer Review Week 2016, I have asked our editors at De Gruyter Open about their thoughts on peer review. Dafydd Gibbon from the Editorial Advisory Board of Open Linguistics generously shared with me his ‘inner guidelines’ which he follows working […]
I have started to blog here on the research project that I am coordinating at De Gruyter Open. This made me think over the principles of research blogging again and I realized that regularity, brevity and simplicity are the basic features of good research blog […]
How to make an academic journal in the humanities visible to an international community? Open access is the first and very important step. But to create more opportunities to be read, cited and to attract more manuscripts, Abstracting & Indexing is essential. In this post […]
Google comes with a new serviceable solution for researchers. The Google Scholar Button has become a hit in the past few weeks. It also almost made me cry with joy. What is so useful about it? The Google Scholar Button extension is currently available for […]
Both journal editors and authors rack their brains on how to increase citation scores. This is why they should work together to solve the problem. As I pointed out in my previous entry on this topic, to be cited an article has to be first […]
Citation count is widely seen as the best proxy of impact in the academic community. The success of authors and journals depends on their citation scores. That is why, both journal editors and authors wonder how to attract the academic community to cite their articles […]
So, you do not know LaTeX? You’re afraid of artificial syntax? You get scared when you only see something similar to “<script>blabla</script>”? Well, I think you should work it out. Regardless of the discipline you are working in, you should not be uncomfortable with using […]