Questions tagged [online-resource]
Questions pertaining to academic resources found on the World Wide Web
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Should thesis defense slideshow be shared?
As mentioned in Academia.SE, it is encouraged to share one's thesis manuscript and publish it online. What about a PhD defense slideshow? I am quite glad with the work we did on this presentation and ...
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Designing a Teaching Innovation Study for Slow Learners in Civil Engineering [closed]
I am an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering. I have recently been tasked by the Department Chair to design a teaching innovation study with the focus to support and enhance the academic ...
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Is it possible to download HTML versions of articles available on publishers' websites?
I often see that articles on websites like IEEE Xplore and Springer have a HTML version directly in the page and a PDF version to download. I usually prefer reading the HTML version because it is ...
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How can I add an animation or video to a peer review report without using "unprofessional" sites like imgur or youtube?
I am writing a peer review and there is an animation I want to share along with it. I can't embed it in the PDF, so what other options do I have besides websites like imgur or youtube that lack ...
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Expired links to open access resources on the sites of the Linguistic Society of America and CiNii
A comment on Japanese SE from a user who has since deleted their account seems to contain some potentially helpful information to me, so I am trying to find the articles suggested by that commenter. ...
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Is it appropriate to cite vulgar websites used for gathering data?
I am working on a master's thesis in natural language processing wherein I analyse various tokenisation algorithms. These algorithms keep a large fixed-size set of recognised words (more specifically, ...
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Embedded hyperlinks in a thesis or research paper
I am writing a master's thesis in engineering. It is quite literature-heavy, and I'm using Zotero with BibTeX to manage my references. For the most part, I use Zotero's browser extension to create ...
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Download videos in the supplementary information section on nature.com
I'm wondering how can I download the videos in the supplementary information section on nature.com (here).
My professor adds them in the slides so I know that is possible to do it, but it's a bit ...
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What are some good resources to adapt oneself to academia and its customs? [closed]
I am an engineer in Academia, coming from a Master's degree that is pretty distant from Academia. I am ten months into my job and I still feel a bit distant about Academia, scientific research and the ...
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Online Education in a Civilization of Scarce Energy [closed]
In the context of a transition to lower energy consumption, one considers, among other things, the energy consumption of the Internet. Among the various uses of the Internet, it seems that the ...
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How can I generate an elegant (academic) static CV web page?
A friend of mine has a personal website, including a CV laid out on a page of that site (i.e. not a downloadable PDF/ODT/DOC) document. I want to help them spruce up that page somewhat.
Now, this ...
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Should I cite non-peer reviewed work that helped in my research in a peer-reviewed publication?
Specifically, I want to cite a blog post in a peer reviewed paper. The post was extremely helpful towards how I formulated the problem. The blog was not breaking-edge research; more a re-write of ...
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How to get in touch with researchers for sparring/discussing
I am a PhD student in computer science at a German university, working remotely on the PhD. I do not get much support from my professor (anymore) in terms of time for discussions and I have little to ...
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Is it ethical to get some help from Stack Exchange for my research as a PhD student?
As a PhD student, I am expected to do research on my own, possibly assisted by my supervisor or colleagues. Like any researcher, I sometimes spend days looking for a small piece of information, ...
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Creating a StackExchange "Team" for an Academic class to replace the Canvas online discussion board [closed]
I am a community college math instructor. We use the Canvas learning management system for our online courses. Most of us use the built-in online discussion board in Canvas where students can share ...
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Software platform for out-of-academia research collaboration
I've been volunteered (sort of) to help a subgroup of an activist group set up some on-line platform for (better) collaboration, and organization/storage of a base information. The subject is ...
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Mailing list or websites for remote teaching positions in universities [closed]
I'm currently a part time math lecturer in an engineering college in France, but I'm very much willing to teach undergraduate level math courses outside France. However, despite searching on usual ...
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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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Why are online lecture notes usually not accessible to non-students?
When looking for online lecture notes, I notice that most of the time you have to be a student and login in using your institution information to get access.
Why would a professor not show the lecture ...
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Is there a python wrapper covering multiple scholarly resources API endpoints?
Question: Does anybody know of a Python Wrapper containing a number of the mentioned APIs listed by MIT?
Context: I want to execute a systematic literature review, and apply bibliometrics/ citation ...
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Do Taylor & Francis publications have article numbers that are hidden but can be found?
[[This post has been retitled once and edited twice. This is the second edit. The original post had a sample reference that was faulty for purposes of having the question answered. For this edit, I ...
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how can I use email as a reference [duplicate]
I have a question about references. I was reading a paper and I emailed the author asked him about something if it is already known or not. Let make it as example, I asked about basic property say $...
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What value does self-learning a course (or several) have in graduate admissions?
I am an undergraduate student who hopes to switch my major from engineering to Physics. Although this switch is possible, I lack several crucial foundation courses in Physics such as electrodynamics ...
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Is there a difference between simplification and spoon feeding in education?
I had been researching about what students dislike about studying, and found out two contradictory piece of reasons:
students cannot understand the concepts taught to them by the teachers;
they hate ...
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Is the Chegg Honor Shield tool an effective promotor of Academic Honesty?
Many college instructors have been struggling with a significant rise in cheating in the last year, notably in the context of required distance learning and online testing during the time of the COVID ...
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How does one use the Chegg bulk-takedown request form?
Cheating in online tests has accelerated and become rampant this year. I'm in the U.S. and my institution has had all-online courses from March 2020 to at least September 2021. Many of my test ...
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Is there a search tool for finding primary sources in US History?
If I search a tool like JSTOR, ProQuest, or Academic Search Complete, I typically just find secondary sources. Occasionally I can find primary sources there, but only when it is part of a translation ...
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How to find online discussion groups on research topics which are relatively less popular
How could someone who has just enrolled in a phd or started a research could find online discussion groups, especially if the topic is relatively less popular.(e.g How to find research or discussion ...
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How can I find the altmetrics for a specific paper?
Alternative metrics for a paper, include not just the citations in other academic journals, but also all Twitter mentions, citations in Wikipedia, citations across the Stack Exchange network, etc.
The ...
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Does McGraw Hill Connect improve student learning outcomes?
I am debating if I should adopt the McGraw-Hill Connect system for my course next semester. On one hand, I am worried about the students' backslash because of the cost. On the other hand, after the ...
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How to avoid getting lost in referring multiple reference texts at the same time?
I am a 2nd year PhD student working on a project which involves control systems and power systems. For the next stage of my work, I have to learn about a control systems technique which I am not ...
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Is it ethical to use a textbook required for a class that was easily found online?
I am taking an online class that requires a textbook to be purchased. I have found the book through my first simple search using the Google search engine. The website where I found the book seems to ...
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Are math grad students increasingly consulting SE and Wiki, ignoring research librarians and libraries, to their own detriment?
Judging by posts and comments by graduate students in math.stackexchange.com and mathoverflow.net, I have come to the conclusion that a large part of their knowledge comes from SE sites and the ...
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State-of-the-art animated handwritten slideshow software
This is a remake/sequel of the 2015 question Handwritten presentation slides?.
Surely much has changed in these five years. I have seen lots of presentations combining typed text/equations and ...
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How to ask for another university prof for course materials? [duplicate]
Just surfing the net to find useful resources, came across to the university course page, and course materials were well explained. However, when trying to download them, Unfortunately, there was a ...
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Why does this US DOI manuscript on archaeological sites have blacked-out text?
While searching for information for a course I'm teaching, I ran into this article from the US Department of the Interior describing some archaeological sites in the Southwest. It has tons of blacked ...
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Recent data supported by media report, not by peer-reviewed article? [closed]
In the letter of intent for the dissertation proposal, the student reports data about the number of minority hires for x-number of program positions in the upcoming season. The source for the data is ...
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Where can I pay professional researchers online to verify my results and answer my questions? [duplicate]
I am looking for professional help to verify some results I am working on and maintaining in a write-up. However, I can't get anyone for free since I was forced to leave my old university, Case ...
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Methods to track behind cheating on exams using on-line sites?
In the current state of the technologies, what ways can be used to track clear yet directly untraceable cases of academic misconduct specific to students who post questions from and view answers to a ...
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An equivalent of arXiv, but for tabular and other experimental data? [duplicate]
Suppose I'm doing some experimental work in an academic context. The essence of the results will likely be captured by documents such as conference/journal articles, technical reports, a M.Sc. or Ph.D....
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Is there a university website that lists all books used/recommended per course in order? [closed]
That non-enrolled people can access, of course.
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Can I use an Encyclopedia as a reference in an essay?
I am writing a paper that is about another culture. I need to include references about the culture in my paper. Is an encyclopedia an acceptable source for general information about the culture (...
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Does auditing a course hold any value?
I was quite curious about doing neuroscience so I reached out to a prof in my institution (IIT-K), who suggested me an online course on the same (MCB80). I have audit the course and am following it ...
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Why some issues are not listed (skipped) in online list of journals? [closed]
I want to know where I can find the articles published in "Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik" Volume 2013: Issues 675-682? These issues seem to be missing.
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Is it legal to download textbooks from academia.edu? [duplicate]
There is a website called academia.edu. It seems like they have papers on various topics - but my question is about their textbooks. It is possible to download certain college textbooks for free ...
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What to do if I can't find the book of this chapter I found so I can cite it?
So I've found a .pdf file that is apparently a chapter of a book and I can't see any information about the book whatsoever aside from its title and the number of the chapter. I've tried entering a ...
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Publishing a novel idea without experiments and results
I wrote a technical paper on a novel idea related to internet technologies. However, I don't have resources to conduct large scale experiment. Also, the numerical results cannot be consider as well. ...
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What's the best way of starting a private lab wiki site? [closed]
My labmates and I were thinking of creating a wiki site for sharing protocols, links to github repos, some metadata and other useful lab related material. Contentwise mostly text, maybe some images, ...
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How can I find somebody to chat about papers?
I’m a computer-science PhD student. I want to find people to chat about papers (by others) online. How can I go about this?
I was looking into the chat of this website. I was also looking at some IRC ...
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Is Manuscripts.io a legit tool? Any experience with it?
A colleague just tipped me about manuscripts.io which advertises itself as a collaborative writing tool, with some really sweet features like importing docx and LaTeX; searching and adding citations ...
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