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Get your ORCID today

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 a number of possibilities are growing. Recently I was writing a post about Kudos, which is another platform for researchers. I noticed that one of its big advantages is that it is integrated with ORCID. Only then, I suddenly realized that there is no post about ORCID on this blog. Yet, in my opinion, ORCID […]

Open access funding guide for researchers

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. Having previous experience with submitting manuscripts to various journals, this researcher was feeling confused by the differences in the costs and policies related to Article Processing Charges (APCs).[2] We both work in universities which still do not have a regulated stream to support the publishing fees for gold open access publications. Could one conclude that […]

How to improve your classes with Twitter?

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 paper titled ‘Twitter and Teaching: to Tweet or not to Tweet?‘ by Sergej Lugovic, Wasim Ahmed and Matea Jocic. The authors reviewed 22 original research papers on classroom Twitter usage. Most of these papers find the social media platform a potentially efficient way to improve traditional teaching. I personally have never thought of Twitter as […]

How to conduct peer review?

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 as a reviewer. I think they are valuable enough to be shared with a bigger audience. So here they go! A. Be constructive and helpful. A review is not an opportunity for venting your frustrations, even if the author does not cite you. B. List the goals of the paper. C. Summarise the paper in […]

Still not blogging on your research? A few tips for you.

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 writing. Considering this topic, I decided to collect all 6 tips that I found important for bloggers in one place. To blog or not to blog – this question was already discussed here and in several other places. I have even heard some voices say that there are too many blog posts about academic blogging […]

Abstracting & indexing services for open access journals in humanities: beginner’s guide

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 by Marzena Falkowska and Peter Golla from the De Gruyter Online Marketing team we provide a step-by-step guide to Abstracting & Indexing for new open access journals in the humanities. So you’ve decided to launch an open access journal in the humanities – congratulations! You must already have some ideas about how to make it […]

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