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Do books need a URL when cited?
I'm writing my thesis with Latex and I use Mendeley for the citation.
When I add a book and specify some attributes, like title, author and ISBN, Mendeley automatically adds some missing attributes.
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How to interpret quality of computer science journals that charge publication fees?
I usually publish my research work at conferences in the field of Computer Science, I do not have so many papers and the question that I am doing here it might sound foolish for some (or maybe a lot) ...
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If a reference/book authored by your professor contains typos, how should you react?
My professor gave me a module on history that contains several spelling and grammatical errors. Should I tell him about this or just ignore these mistakes?
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How would the UK leaving the EU affect academia and PhD admission?
Will all European applicants count as ‘international students’ then?
Are there any proposals on this yet? I am finishing my BA in two years and was considering applying to the UK, but am worried now ...
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How much does it cost the publisher to publish a book? [closed]
I wonder how much it costs a publisher to publish a book (textbook or research book).
I'm looking for referenced numbers, not guesses. I am mostly interested in the fields of computer science and ...
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Can an international PhD Student in Australia make a living with an APA scholarship and 8 hours teaching work per week?
My "problem":
I am from Austria and currently in the process of applying for a PhD position in Brisbane, Australia. My supervisors said that I might be eligible for an
APA (Australian Postgraduate ...
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What are possible legal ways to obtain a textbook for free? [closed]
I'm not sure whether this is such a great question, and I'm not looking at illegal ways, but is there any way to obtain textbooks for free (legally)?
Answers very much appreciated.
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How much does a publisher charge authors if they want to make their book open access?
Is there any research/study/survey that looked at how much publishers charge authors if they want to make their books (textbooks or research books) open access?
I am most interested in the field of ...
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Is it worth it to write a book with my advisor instead of focusing on journal/conference publications?
Is it worth it to coauthor a book with my advisor in place of spending time publishing resrarch in journals or conferences?
Would the fact that the book is a much larger piece of work contribute more ...
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Is attending a more expensive and prestigious foreign university a good financial investment? [closed]
Here's the question: is university a sound investment? I'll be clear, since I know that this situation and this questions are experienced by many people. I'm going to face very soon the choice of ...
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Selling/Buying software in academia
I have written multiple opensource programs as part of my PhD, and some of these programs require a dedicated server somewhere on the internet to work. Mainly it is online databases, but also things ...
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Why pay a fee to have your article (in a subscription-based journal) made open access when you can just put the preprint on arXiv?
Upon acceptance, some journals offer open access through an optional fee. This model differs from the usual open access model in which all authors pay a fee and all accepted papers are accessible ...
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If an author does not intend to make much revenue from a book, why not make it open-access?
Many authors do not intend to make much revenue from books (textbooks or research books) they contribute to, yet they don't make it open access. Why?
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Are publishers making less money on textbooks now?
A colleague of mine, who teaches chemistry, claims that these days, sales of copies of college textbooks are no longer profitable for publishers. He says that their revenue is now from services, such ...
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How much revenue do academic authors make on their published books?
Is there any dataset that look at how much revenue academic authors make on their published books?
I am aware of the question How much do Springer-Verlag authors make per book sold? but answers there ...
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Does a chapter published in a book fit as part of a paper-based dissertation?
I've just received an offer to write a chapter for a book that will be published with an important publisher. I was about to say yes, because the topic fits with my dissertation topic and I thought I ...
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Dataset of retraction fines per publisher
I read in the Nature comment Reproducibility: A tragedy of errors authored by David B. Allison, Andrew W. Brown, Brandon J. George& Kathryn A. Kaiser and published today
Science relies ...
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Will publisher waive fee if currently unaffiliated?
I am in between jobs and want to send a quick note to a journal. However, I do not have any lab to pay the ridiculous publishing fees, is there any way I can ask the journal to waive the publishing ...
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How can I compile a study material of a course in this case?
Last year I was appointed to lecture a Data Structures course in a university in my hometown. The material for making my notes were based on several books, articles and also some material from ...
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Any book or tutorial about good practices or typical mistakes when conducting scientific research?
Some days ago I read this question:
Feynman describing a scientific error
and I found it quite interesting. Although it seems naïve it could be a typical mistake made by a beginner researcher as me.
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Book series in bibliography?
At one time I tried to be able to remember obscure journal abbreviations and the like, but recently I started favouring more bulky bibliography entries.
So I started wondering if it might be useful ...
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Referring to individual chapters in a review of an edited volume
I have to write a review of an edited volume and wonder what the best approach would be to cite individual papers, to which I refer. The review is for a bulletin rather than a journal and the format ...
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Any way to know what version of a book I'm buying? [closed]
I recently purchased this book from a vendor that is not Amazon, but who listed the same image:
...but this was not quite the same as the book I received, which had a different cover and omitted the "...
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Good books/resource on mathematical writing
I am a freshly graduated Ph.D. I want to improve further my mathematical writing (in English, if this matters).
I am looking for books/resource that address good mathematical writing. I can find some ...
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What can I do if I submitted a paper believing a journal to be free for authors, and after acceptance I'm asked to pay a fee?
Reading about a journal A, I understood that authors can submit papers free of charge to this journal. I have submitted a paper and received a letter of acceptence with a bill. The editor said that I ...
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Can I withdraw an accepted paper if the fees are higher than expected because the proof is longer?
I have received the acceptance of my paper from Editor board. However, the print charges is much higher than I expected. My original manuscript contained only 12 pages but the proof (final version), ...
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Are there any Books/Guides to developing researching skills for academia
I will be doing an Honours in Commerce next year at a GO8 university.
This is essentially a stepping stone into a pathway to academia (or sometimes a resume booster for getting into industry).
It ...
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Sources to cover open-access fees
As this question mentions and as I know from my (limited) experience, some journals demand a high fee to make the articles you submit to be available as open-access. For example, a quote from JVSTB ...
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Textbook that is a combination of other textbooks? [closed]
A, B, C are three good textbooks from the market. An author/professor translates them, taking chapter 1 from A, 2 from B, 3 from C and combining them into another textbook. The content of the new ...
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Why do we pay to present at conferences?
I recently presented at a conference abroad (my first one), and the entry fee was $50 USD. Now, as this was my first conference, the concept of paying to present at a conference is still a foreign one ...
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What are the benefits of taking textbook notes?
Taking notes based on the textbook obviously helps to organize and summarize info in the textbook. But if I highlighted the most important areas of the textbook, and while revising I only look at ...
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Being sure of date of publication of a book
I am practicing making citations of quotes and I am currently stuck on
publication dates.
To illustrate my issue, let’s use this this book:
The front pages state the copyright date as three separate ...
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Should a full manuscript be available for a book proposal?
I've been given some conflicting advice about preparing book proposals and manuscripts for academic presses. I'm aware that writing books is a lengthy process etc; however, I've also been told by a ...
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Why does a (highly competitive) mathematics department recommend / require lower-level textbooks to work from, [closed]
but the exam questions -- and often, homework problems -- come from the classics, e.g., Baby Rudin, Ahlfor's Complex Analysis, Lax's Linear Algebra. This creates a huge discrepancy in one's level of ...
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Can I get a refund if I bought an article that contains a major flaw?
Is it possible to get a refund from a publisher if I bought an article that contains a major flaw (i.e.,one that invalidates the main results or the main conclusions)? Assume the article was bought ...
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Why don't most academic conferences make their budget publicly available?
I wonder why most academic conferences don't make their budget publicly available.
Making budgets publicly available could help explain high conference fees (which attendees often complain about), ...
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Publishing thesis as a book
One of the answers here says that some researchers in humanities publish their thesis as a book. Could the same be done for example in physics, chemistry or math degree? By book I mean the whole ...
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"If multiple papers are accepted for presentation, each paper requires a separate registration fee." -> Why?
I have seen several conferences that specify:
If multiple papers are accepted for presentation, each paper requires a separate registration fee.
Why? Is that purely financially motivated (e.g. an ...
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A conjecture proved in drafts [closed]
I am preparing my math research monograph for publication.
In the current draft there is certain conjecture.
This conjecture was proved in my drafts (available on the Web) of the second volume for ...
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Why don't graduate math texts have solutions to their exercises?
I study mathematics and sometimes I have seen book that contains problems but not their solutions. Why are there no solutions available anywhere?
For example, the books I have read are:
Neukirch: ...
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Etiquette - send a copy of my new book to the department I earned my PhD within or to my advisor?
I need some etiquette advice. The book version of my PhD manuscript has just come out and I have a limited number of copies (8) from my publisher that I can give to family etc. My dilemma is whether ...
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How does one keep informed in a field that relies heavily on scholarly books?
Given that the cycle for writing scholarly books is usually much longer than journal articles, how do professors and students stay informed about their peers' current research? Are there any pathways ...
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When to publish a journal article versus a scholarly book?
In some fields, original research is reported almost exclusively in journal articles, but in others scholarly books are more common.
In the latter fields, how does one decide whether to publish a ...
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How does one determine priority, prominence, and impact with regard to books, rather than articles?
My background is in physics where almost 100% of the scholarly work is reported in peer-reviewed publications. Within that framework, I understand how to determine who has priority regarding ideas, ...
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How can I encourage students to ask questions in class
In my field (as in many others), students are assigned articles or textbook chapters to be read as preparation for classes (i.e. the whole class has to read the same set of texts). I encourage my ...
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How do you (digitally) catalog the books you've read over the years?
I wonder how you keep tracks of what you've been reading over the years. I'm not talking about things that are 'relevant' and 'precious' to your academic work (to that end, all hail to EndNote or ...
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How can I tell if an unsolicited offer to publish a book with Springer is legit?
Our team had a paper recently published in Energy and Buildings, and one of us (not the main author) received last week an email from someone claiming to be an editor with Springer.
According to this ...
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Citing only e-books in Bachelor thesis
I want to know, are e-books (digital version) comparable to physical books in citations? Can I use only e-books instead of real books for finding citations, notes to put in my Bachelor thesis?
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Is it legal in the US for a student to download a copy of a textbook, to study?
(this is coming out of a comment thread regarding this question.)
The USA has a Fair Use legal provision restricting its copyright law:
17 U.S.C. § 107
Notwithstanding the provisions of ...
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Listing books read on a CV for undergraduate research in mathematics
I am currently making my CV for undergraduate research internships in Pure Mathematics. I have read many graduate level books on the field out of my own interest. Whenever I was stuck on a difficult ...
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