Questions tagged [online-resource]
Questions pertaining to academic resources found on the World Wide Web
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Is web-presence important for researchers?
How important is web-presence to researchers? How does its importance vary by fields? (My interest is STEM, theory in particular)
I noticed that there is a pretty large variation in amount of web-...
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Why are some professors critical of even casual use of Wikipedia?
Many of the professors and lecturers I come across are very critical of Wikipedia, but they never give proper support for their claims of "Wikipedia is bullshit!". And they threaten "Do not use ...
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Is it ethical for a Professor to disseminate wrong answers online?
I recently took a class where the Professor created multiple online study guides, on popular student sites, which intentionally contained the wrong answers. He did this because his exams were based ...
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Are TED presentations academically credible?
Many people, including myself, are fascinated by TED speakers. They provide us a new perspective. For example, see the TED talk The best stats you've ever seen by Hans Rosling.
However, when I talked ...
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How to write an academic paper for the first time?
While writing an answer to that question, I realized I don't really have a good list of resources that could be useful to first-time authors, like MSc or PhD students who write their first paper. I ...
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Academic discretion: Should one participate in online forums or Stack Exchange sites anonymously?
As we may ask and answer various questions on online forums or stack exchange regarding teaching, research, publishing etc; it may reveal our lack of knowledge on any basic topic. This might hurt us ...
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Creating a permanent URL to put in a publication
In an upcoming publication, I need to link to the data I used for the publication so that others can see/use the data as well — both for reviewing the given work and also for intended use in the ...
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Are there any online tools to calculate academic collaboration distance (i.e. a generalisation of the Erdős number)?
The Erdős number is the academic collaboration distance someone has to Paul Erdős. MathSciNet has a tool to calculate the collaboration distance between two mathematicians (where one may or may not ...
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How do I get an email alert when my paper is cited?
I recently published a paper in a journal which does not offer a notification system to send email alerts when a paper is cited. The journal is a well known and has a high-impact factor in my field. ...
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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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Is there an internet Git-like repository for collaboration on a paper?
I've just started using git for tracking changes in a LaTeX paper I'm writing, and for collaboration with co-authors.
However, I cannot find easily private git repositories with reasonable plans for ...
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How do you "grow your own" post doc opportunity?
I am a finishing doctoral student (graduation in ~7-9 months) and I would love to get an year or so of postdoctoral experience. I've come to understand that a postdoc is generally paid by funds ...
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What's the best way to share my presentation slides online?
I'm thinking of posting slides from some of my technical presentations online. One option I've used in the past is just posting the PDFs. But I've seen some sites that offer nice interfaces for ...
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Is it advisable to use a URL link shortening service when writing an academic article?
Is it OK to present a URL using a link shortening service such as bit.ly? The reason I'm asking is that I think it's a lot easier to enter this URL (e.g., if you read it in a paper) as opposed to full ...
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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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How old can references or sources in a thesis be?
I have read that references in scientific papers should be no more than 2-3 years old, since such fields move fast, and no more than 10 years for arts or related fields:
A good rule of thumb is to ...
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Reproducing figures in blog/SE posts
Sometimes when I am writing a review blog post (or an answer on SE), it is convenient to include a figure from the original paper. Some journals (say PNAS) have policies that explicitly allow non-...
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How important is seeing the face of the instructor?
So, I am yet to make up my mind on which is a superior mode of teaching in flipped classroom videos:
Khan academy type model where you see slides or a digital drawing board and only listen to the ...
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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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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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What is the preferable way to share data?
Suppose there is data that you as an author of a journal article wants to share with the readership of the article (e.g. raw experimental data, code, gold standard / ground truth data).
What would be ...
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Can I use my blog posts for an academic publication?
It is not very clear in the publication guidelines of journals or conferences whether one can post some preliminary data or results online (blog, twitter, facebook, etc.), gather feedback, and then ...
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arXiv is running out of IDs -- is their solution known?
I just noticed that arXiv.org is basically running out of monthly IDs, as can be seen in this graph (source [13-12-09]):
They have gone over 8000 monthly submissions 3 times in last 1.5 years. With ...
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How to search for list of papers citing both papers A and B?
For given papers A and B, I would like to search for all papers that cite both A and B. I guess one can generalize to papers {A,B,C,...} and find all papers that cite all of them.
A quick Google ...
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How should you cite dead urls in a thesis?
I am currently writing a thesis. In the related work part I am discussing a paper from a few years ago. The paper presents several web applications which were available back then. Hence, these ...
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How do I generate an Undergraduate Thesis worthy of publication?
Simply, what do you expect from a good bachelor's thesis?
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How to find credible sources for a general reference?
I am currently writing a paper in which I have many topics to describe. It would not be productive to read and cite papers or even books on the topics because I just have to describe them very briefly ...
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Is there any reason to not make course details public?
While attending a course sometime back, I recall an instructor saying, "I need to warn (other instructor's name)...their course syllabus is available to anyone!"
I do not have access to an LMS for my ...
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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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Searching for a quotation manager
I’m looking for a way to manage the text of the quotations that most certainly I will use (i.e. quote) in the future. I’m a philosopher, so this is specially handy —and even required— for the ...
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How to cite a reference which disappeared?
During my PhD, I wrote a couple papers referencing and using a set of notes available online, which constitute(d) the draft of a textbook (and laid down techniques and lemmata I used). [1]
Now, I am ...
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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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How to advertise a paper to increase citations?
Of course, the best way to improve citations is to write good papers which presents sound, interesting, and important results.
However, assuming that one has a nice paper published in an important ...
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Statistics on readership and posting habits for academic blogs
Although this stackexchange seems to be a little hostile towards metrics (especially when they are about research productivity), it is still sometimes fun to indulge in a little bit of arbitrary ...
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Why do so few universities offer OpenCourseWare videos of their lessons?
OpenCourseWare has become more and more popular over the years, and quite a good number of universities make their lessons available in the form of online videos. However, compared to the total number ...
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How do MIT OpenCourseware and real MIT courses compare?
Are MIT courses much different from MIT OpenCourseWare? I am curious, because as a high schooler, I have some intent to study from MIT OpenCourseWare.
Will this allow me to be more comfortable if I ...
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How do I cite RFCs?
What's the right way to cite RFC's of the IETF (Internet Engineering Taskforce)? like this one? That is, what kind of document should this be considered as? Is the IETF the author, the organization, ...
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Where am I supposed to report a broken DOI?
Where am I supposed to report a broken DOI? To https://www.doi.org/, to the DOI registration agency that issued the DOI, to whoever is responsible for the website to which the DOI points to, or to ...
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Online resources for summer schools in software engineering?
I'm looking for an online resources that lists all summer schools of the actual year in a specific domain. Are there any sites? I just found one: Summer Schools in Europe, but this site seems to be a ...
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Good practices with lab wikis?
OpenWetWare and Google Sites have been effective strategies in curating lab knowledge. I was curious about what are effective ways to create an effective wiki. Factors include:
Ease of use and low ...
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What are risks or disadvantages in uploading to figshare or related services?
Figshare lets researches publish figures and data for long-term archival and public access. I just found out about it and find the idea sympathetic. See for example their F.A.Q..
What risks are ...
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Why do conferences and other academic events still mostly happen offline?
Despite the fact that most of the world is now connected with high-speed fiber and even phones can record 4k video, it seems to me that there is a large focus on offline events. Universities invite ...
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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 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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Handwritten keys and ADA compliance
I'm a Math professor. I teach a face-to-face calculus course, and I'm in the habit of distributing handwritten quiz keys online.
I'm informed by a colleague that she believes that this style of ...
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Looking for sources of online graduate-level education
Can anyone suggest sources of online graduate-level education, as well as some criticism of them? Both free and paid are valid. I'm familiar with these sources:
Academic Earth
MIT OpenCourseWare
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As a computational chemist, which online resources are available for Ph.D. level jobs? [closed]
Which online resources are available for job search at the Ph.D. level in the computational chemistry field?
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How to find scientists that cited several of my papers?
There are several ways to find online scientists that cited one of your papers (Google Scholar, PubMed, Web of Science, etc). Recently, however, I ran into a scenario in which I wanted to find authors ...
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Worldwide Dissertation Database? or French, German, Italian ones?
Is there a global/worldwide database of dissertations? If not, how can I access French, German, Italian, etc. dissertations online?
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How do industrial researchers get access to online journals?
When one is hired by industry to research (or something of innovative nature), he or she may want (or need) to access online journal articles.
But I suppose normal industrial jobs (e.g. software ...
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