Questions tagged [online-publication]
Questions concerning publication over the internet, including online preprint services, electronic journals, white papers, etc.
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How to select journals that are free of charge and have good reputation for beginning publications as MSc student or individual researcher?
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As a MSc student I wrote a systematic review about a machine learning topic.
The paper was top-graded.
I would like to take advantage and make my first publications in the scientific community, ...
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Why do " 'inclusive' access" textbooks normally self-destruct after a year or so?
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There's a technology called automatic textbook billing, or "inclusive" access (IA). It is also known by many other names.
With IA, students are ...
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Is it normal that the co-authors can't see my camera-ready submission in CPS?
I submitted the camera-ready manuscript via the IEEE CPS online system, and I have a "Previous Submissions to the Conference" section in my page. But the other co-authors, who also recieved ...
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What defines legitimacy of a DOI
My coauthors and I recently published a paper on https://www.ijnrd.org/viewpaperforall?paper=IJNRD2307102.
The doi which was assigned to us is http://doi.one/10.1729/Journal.35162.
According to my ...
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Is having a tracker on your homepage generally ok in Academia?
I have a homepage where I typically put my published manuscripts on together with information about me. I have a tracker/analytics page that tells me which paper is getting more downloads/views, ...
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Does translating an article for a magazine require permission from the author?
Is translating an article (that could be found written in a popular science magazine or online in a science blog or personal webpage say) for a public newspaper or an online blog ...etc, requires ...
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Flair/Badge for arXiv paper?
This is borderline trivial, but in my attempt to publish my work in a public repository, I've found badges at the top of my README.md to be useful. For example, using Zenodo, I can create a badge that ...
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What is a difference for authors when publishing in a journal with 300 annual papers compared to an open access journal publishing 9000 papers a year? [closed]
Both journals are indexed by major search engines and have similar ratings. From my point of view (with limited experience), if you are researching a narrow subject and you have found online an ...
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How much do Springer-Verlag authors make per book sold?
How much do Springer-Verlag authors make per book sold?
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What are objectives and incentives of journal editors?
I am trying to understand better the factors that affect the decisions of journal editors (re: publication). I am not interested in strategies to boost my chances of publication, rather I want to ...
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is it good for academic path if I publish too many papers in arxiv
Currently, I am a PhD student from material science and I wish to become a TT professor in the future. When submitting papers, we see an option to submit it in arxiv and it seems to me that the ...
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Can I use my first and middle names on research publications instead of my first and last names? [duplicate]
Can i use my first and middle name as name in research publications instead of first and last name?
Because my full name is long and most people used to call me with first and middle name.
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how to share my research to maximum people across the globe?
I found something very novel during my Ph.D. and we have published this finding. However, many people don't believe in our work and it has been a year since I published my paper but I found very few ...
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Is it worth publishing technical report as a journal paper also?
I'm currently working on a technical report which will be published by the sponsor organization - and also given significant publicity by them for campaigning purposes.
I'm wondering if it's worth ...
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In general, is it frowned upon to include screenshots of R/Python/etc. tables in your academic paper? [closed]
For academic papers, is it frowned upon to include screenshots of graphics generated by some computer program? I am working on a paper and want to include data that I generated in R.
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I need to get a simple mathematical theorem published that proves a universal law [closed]
I have discovered a simple yet foundational mathematical theorem that proves a universal law. My advisors say I should get the theorem published in a mathematical journal so that the theorem can be ...
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What should I do after the acceptance of a paper in supercomputing (Springer journal)? [duplicate]
One week ago, my paper has been accepted and I received the following email:
You will be contacted about proofs and offprints in due course by our Manufacturing Department.
What should I do ? and it ...
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Contribution to SE listed on a CV as public scholarship [duplicate]
Scholarship and public benefit:
As a social science PhD student I frequently encounter discussions about the need for "public scholarship" in the discipline. Often these discussions ...
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how can i publish paper in open access journal?
I found a hybrid journal that accepts an open access option. When I submitted my paper, there was no choice to choose open access and it is submitted now, how can I tell the journal that I need to ...
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Publish related articles in the same journal or in different journals?
I have done a lot of research on curling numbers, which is a particular niche of combinatorics. There have only been two earlier publications on curling numbers, both in the Journal of Integer ...
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Can i publish a book chapter independently?
My question is can I publish a book chapter independently? I have completed my PhD and currently I am not enrolled anywhere, in this case can I publish it without approval of guide or institution?
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What will be implications of not publishing officially?
I am not a professional academic; I am an amateur mathematician.
I have developed an entirely new mathematical theory.
I have written a book about my theory and put it online at my web site.
I am ...
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What are the default copyrights/IP restrictions for a work I post online?
Suppose I've put a PDF with an paper or treatise I've written, but not yet properly published, somewhere online. This place is not some document repository or a site that has some specific copyright ...
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Is it legal if I print PDF files of Springer books for personal use?
As a Canadian undergraduate student, I have access to all Springer books on their website, provided that I log in with my institutional account. Springer books can be downloaded as PDF files.
Because ...
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How do I ensure that the colormap shows well in black and white?
One referee comment says that "Not sure the colormap shows up well in black and white". Two figures in my manuscript are shown below. Do I have to change the colormap settings? If I do, how ...
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It is possible a journal no longer be indexed in Web of Science (WoS)?
I am doing a bibliometric research in Web of Science. I made a research one year ago of a topic in Web of Science and I got a known number of results, as well as the percentual of papers per country. ...
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Are reputations earned and questions answered on Stack community considered as worthy publications?
Are reputations earned and questions answered on Stack Exchange community considered as worthy publications?
Can they be included or considered as publications?
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Is there any provision to provide reference to the paper which is in process to get published in journal at the time of graduate applications?
I will be presenting my paper to a conference this month. The papers presented in the conference will usually take 3-6 months to get published and indexed in the journal.
While applying for admissions ...
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Formatting APA Style Headings for HTML in Online Publications [closed]
I do not see any questions here about how to convert APA (or MLA, Chicago, Turabian, etc.) style into HTML (edit: styled with CSS) for online publication. Since HTML is perhaps the most accessible ...
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Do UK Academic Journals Generally Use Formatting Styles Based on APA, MLA, or Chicago?
I'm working on an online formatting problem with a UK programmer who is not familiar with academic style requirements. The styling problem in one that is frequently encountered in APA and some Chicago-...
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What is the point of an academic monograph / peer-reviewed book?
I'm currently co-authoring a book-chapter with another scientist. We're writing a review of sea ice variability and trends in an "AGU Physical Monograph" (published by Wiley) on Earth's ...
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What software tools to use for creating publication quality system diagram?
So far I have used powerpoint to create system block diagram or System overview diagrams and convert it to pdf to add in overleaf. Working with powerpoint is tedious. What other softwares are ...
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Documenting and publishing an algorithm with zero experience
Apologies if this is a loaded question, the closest thing I can find is this post and while some of the answers were helpful, I feel I'm not close to solving my problem, hopefully this thread can ...
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What are the consequences of using Sci-Hub?
A student of mine has told me about Sci-Hub, where people can download copyrighted scholarly articles for free.
I have cautioned him that it is illegal, but he challenged me asking me what would be ...
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Indicating an en dash in arXiv submission's metadata [closed]
As indicated here, arXiv metadata fields (e.g., title or abstract) only accept ASCII input, but there are ways of making other symbols appear.
My question is, what is the "best" or "...
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What happened to ScholarlyHub?
Does anyone have an update on the status of the launch of the open-access research-social-network ScholarlyHub?
Is this still an ongoing project or did they quit?
There was much coverage after their ...
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Is it OK to use a published article in a job application?
I am in the process of applying to some jobs, and part of the application process is the requirement to upload scholarly work. Does an author of a published article have the right to upload the ...
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How would I search for an bibliographical link which is no longer available?
I was searching data in regard to the strength of magnetic fields and got a a bibliographical link to what I was searching. Regrettably, the link is no longer functional and is on a language in which ...
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Is MLA Humanities Commons a valid alternative to Academia.edu etc.? [closed]
I've recently discovered MLA's Humanities Commons network and its CORE repository. It seems a viable non-profit alternative for sharing and preserving scholarly work to commercial ventures such as ...
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I have written my affiliation in the incorrect format. Will the journal correct it after the paper is published or published online?
Unfortunately, I made a mistake in writing my academic affiliation (the format of my affiliation is incorrect: instead of University of X, I wrote X University), which makes my paper not to be ...
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Why Crossref can not detect the DOI of the online published paper? How to fix this issue?
My article has been published online in a JCR journal and it has a DOI which works (yet the issue is not identified). The problem is that this DOI can not be detected by Crossref. When submitting ...
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Drawbacks of republishing an article
Suppose I publish an article in a journal as open access. As far as I know, I do have the possibility to do with my article what I want. I then would like to republish the article with an identical ...
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If I share self-written articles on Academia.edu & then re-use their contents for a book, is it plagiarism?
I'm working on a book but it's far from done, so I'm thinking of uploading much of its content on Academia.edu first, in the form of stand-alone articles. This would be without copyright, I presume, ...
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What's the best way to tell the writers of an webpage that they made a mistake?
I was reading this webpage, not sure if webpage is the correct term, and saw that it has a minus sign for the potential 12 describing how the two electrons in a helium atom interact with each other. ...
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How to deal with errors in well established papers
I am currently supervising a Bachelors student for his thesis. I gave him a well-established paper to read of which I only knew the results but never checked the calculations in it. It was first ...
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When are authors on publications in Google Scholar clickable
Whenever one searches for publications on Google Scholar, some of the authors of some publications are clickable (underlined / hyperlinked), but others aren't.
What determines this behavior? Is there ...
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How can I make my papers available on Sci-Hub?
An essential assumption of this question is that I own, without restriction, the copyright of my papers. I am a novice Sci-Hub user. How do I make my papers available to other Sci-Hub users?
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Archiving homework answers from a class
I have taken a math class and answered homework questions from a text (FOAG by Ravi Vakil). Vakil himself stated it was ok to publish answers to questions from his text (although he would prefer that ...
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What makes a good recorded video poster presentation for an academic conference?
A "video poster presentation" sounds like a logical impossibility, but now that conferences are online, they seem to be a thing. What makes one effective? How is this different from a ...
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I want to include a figure from a paper I wrote and is now published in a blog article, what's the best way to do this?
I was reading this question, and I was wondering what differences related to copyright (if any) there might be if I want to include one of the figures from an article I wrote and had published in a ...