Questions tagged [software]
Queries related to various software used in academia. Questions shall not address highly technical aspects of the software but shall address features/issues highly relevant to academia. For questions concerning computer code written or used in the context of a research project or other academic endeavour (including questions on licensing, ownership, sharing, distribution, and formatting of academic source code), use the `code` tag instead.
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My supervisor wants me to switch to another software/programming language that I am not proficient in. What to do?
How can I address my professor’s insistence on switching to SAS when I’m already proficient in R and Python?
I’m facing a dilemma where my professor keeps urging me to switch to SAS for my work, ...
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Does pursuing Masters makes sense for a person with a decade of professional experience
So I've been in the industry of 10 years, specifically software development. Recently, I've decided to pursue my masters in computer science and gotten admitted in a program. However, I still don't ...
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Is it acceptable to seek explicit acknowledgment for code posted to StackExchange which has been made use of in open-source software?
A few years ago as an undergraduate student I wrote a short bit of code (~200-300 lines) to implement a variant of a well-known algorithm for solving a particularly challenging mathematical ...
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Which software can check on false references and incorrect citation on student papers?
I'm a TA at a medium-sized university in Asia, and as part of my routine, I randomly review student papers before using Turnitin for plagiarism checks. During these reviews, I've come across numerous ...
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What happens when software authors move from one university to another?
Suppose Dr. Smith at Stanford developed some open-source software there, and is getting paid from an NIH/NSF grant to continue doing it. But suppose he wants to move to Harvard.
While his software is ...
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Reference management software to get the link of references
I use Mendeley to organize and view articles (pdf files). It is almost good, however I wish something similar with one additional feature. A software to make a link for every reference in the ...
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Professor seeking to sell independently created software [closed]
I am a public-sector university teacher in Brazil. For the last few years, I have been independently working on teaching software, which I firmly believe has excellent commercial value in academia and ...
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Free alternative to kahoot live quizzes?
Is there any free (ideally open-source) alternative to Kahoot for making live quizzes?
I used to like Kahoot for live classroom quizzes, but recently they've changed their pricing model to only allow ...
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Checking Plagiarism among student's work (PDF documents) [duplicate]
I want to check the plagiarism among the students work. I have student's assignments and looking forward if I can make some settings in Turnitin to test the plagiarism only among student's work. I ...
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Can free plagiarism tools cause plagiarism false positives when students upload content checked with free tools to Turnitin?
As a lecturer, I have advised many students to use a free plagiarism checker tool to verify their work is plagiarism free, when they don't have access to a widely-used paid tool like Turnitin. I ...
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Plagiarism checker for mathematics paper
I recently accepted to referee a mathematics paper. This is my first referring assignment and was wondering if there are free plagiarism checkers more suitable for math papers.
side note: Several ...
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Which free online academic plagiarism checker is closest to Turnitin?
Which free online academic plagiarism checker is closest to Turnitin by quality standard of rigour?
Turnitin features that even somebody plagiarize the context of a passage by use synonyms or simply ...
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Can a closed-source research software be published as a journal paper?
I have been developing a piece of software related to my PhD research. My field is bioinformatics and molecular simulation.
The reason being that my supervisor's software has been written in a ...
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Automatic citation management - am I doing it wrong?
I am currently working on my PhD thesis (evolutionary computational biology). Naturally, I have lots of citations, and I use Mendeley's automatic web importer, reference manager, and Word plugin to ...
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Work for college affecting assignment
For an assignment, I was paired up with a professor who also has an administrative role within my college. The assignment was unique to me, with a competitive process to be chosen for the assignment (...
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What aspects of software shared with a quantitative paper are the most important?
I'd like to get the software-sharing aspect of my research paper right. (This empirical paper in health economics relies on code for modelling and simulation.) Besides open-sourcing the code on GitHub,...
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What is the easiest way to check for plagiarism in student essay papers?
I've had to grade quite a few essay papers in the classes I've taught, and I've suspected some may have plagiarized but I never really pursued check on them because it would be too time consuming to ...
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Software to draw illustrative figures in papers
I would like to have suggestions of good software for drawing illustrations in research papers. I already know about Xfig, but this works only on Linux and is at times, clunky when it comes to text. ...
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Tutoring Unfamiliar Material
Context: I've been tutoring in software development for the better part of this year. I've been a hobbyist and student software engineer for the last 3 years and I have decent experience in a few ...
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Entering conference outputs in Pure (Elsevier)
Many universities (including my own) use Pure (an Elsevier product for institutional research information management) to report research outputs.
My question is about entering conference outputs in ...
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How would one cite images from Logos Bible Software?
I have done a word study using Logos Bible Software. I have images of how much the word 'agape' in Greek is used in the LXX and NT. How would I cite these images in Chicago Manual of Style?
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How to format the name of an R package in thesis?
In a thesis, when referring to an R package (a statistical software), how should I write it?
Should it be italicized/treated like a title?
Or just like any other word. The package name is not a "...
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How to publicize my rewrite of another group's software, should I try to get citations for it, and how would I attribute original authors
Four years ago, another group published a paper describing a new method for estimating an important parameter in my field. The method is theoretically elegant, has good accuracy in their benchmarks, ...
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Popular proprietary program or obscure open source substitute for reproducible research?
For a long time, I had been using open source software for my work to make it reproducible. I believed that if I made my code open source and the software to run the code was also open source (or at ...
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Is it ethical to use proprietary (closed-source) software for scientific computation?
I have data from an ordinary scientific experiment. Now, in order to analyse the data, the most convenient way for me is to use some proprietary, closed-source software.
Is it ethical to use such ...
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Paid translation service for research papers [closed]
As a research/lab manager, I am looking for (paid) translation service to translate academic papers. Does anyone know of a good option? In my case I am looking for a German to English translation.
I ...
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Tools for data organising and processing
Suppose we perform experiments with input parameters (temperature, humidity, processing time...) and collect resulting data (thickness, structure, mech. properties...).
Is there a tool (or set of ...
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With a software engineering bachelor's (BE), how can I work on finding a cure for cancer?
I am in my last year of studies for a bachelor's degree in software engineering and I am currently considering different options for my career path. I don't have any background in medicine, but I ...
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Program/Process for updating calculation results in manuscripts
When writing a manuscript, my current practice is to conduct whichever calculations needed in one specific program (e.g. Python or Matlab) then copy and paste the result of the calculation into the ...
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What citation software orders Vancouver references automatically?
I know that MS Word can create numbered citations, but it doesn't include Vancouver style. I'm hesitant to try to install the Vancouver code on Word (not sure I have the skill to do that). I want to ...
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Is there any efficient non-linear note-taking software?
I'd be interested in tools helping to organize thoughts and ideas, especially in a non-linear way (i.e. not as most existing note taking tools, working with lists and bullets, but rather as a post-it ...
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Is there any free alternative to Mendeley desktop app on Windows?
I have been using Mendeley for a very long time now. I use it for organizing and reading articles. I just noticed that it keeps removing files randomly from the folders and groups. I don't know the ...
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Is using Mendeley to organize my files a good idea? [closed]
My Library is already partially organized (manually) with regular filesystem folders. But it is pretty messy right now and getting unwieldy.
Also several files should be renamed to something ...
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Best sketching app with line assist for android tablet using a stylus
Are there any good sketching apps for an Android tablet? I like the idea of sketching with a stylus however the lines usually end up looking quite shaky. The goal is to use it either real time during ...
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Is the submission number in EasyChair random or indicative of the total number of submissions already created?
I submitted my paper in EasyChair website and I got a submission number 3100. My supervisor told me that this is a random number and it is not the real number of all submissions before mine. Is any ...
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Using Grammarly in Article writing [closed]
I'm sure you have heard about or seen Grammarly app's ads. Do you recommend using it to proof read your articles before sending them for review?
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What software can extract block diagrams from pdf?
I am looking for ways to extract block diagrams systematically from a folder of pdfs so that I can compare them quickly. I tried pyMuPDF but it does not exactly extract figures but all the bitmaps in ...
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Conference management software (preferably open source) with custom fields
I've been told to set up software to organize a workshop. Is there (preferably an open source) conference solution that allows for:
Abstract Submission
Event Planning
Arbitrary user data-fields
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Ethics: donation link on github repository for an academic side project
I'm a grad student in the United States with a strong programming background in a field where most people have very little programming experience. A while ago a faculty member I know requested my help;...
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How do you benchmark against another paper's result if their code is not released, and my replication of their method obtain different results? [duplicate]
I've developed an algorithm that I believe should theoretically improves upon a previous work. In the previous work, the authors have provided results for a baseline method and their own method. The ...
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Possibility of doing mathematical/theoretical research with software-development principles
I come from a mathematical physics background, so I have very little experience with other areas of Math, so what I say may not apply to mathematics research in general obviously (and probably much ...
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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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Mendeley Reference Manager jumping inside the document [closed]
I am using Mendeley Reference Manager to read research papers and group them into collections.
During reading we often jump to references (such as Figures or Tables) or citations (to see the name of ...
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Should I cite all R packages I used?
Intro: R is a open-source software tool for statistical analyses and graphics, which is heavily used in different science disciplines and which is becoming more and more popular (although it is ...
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What are modern channels for clarifying student uncertainty online? [closed]
One of the primary tasks of professors is communication with their students. Communication typically involves lecturing, clarifying uncertainties, and receiving feedback. Lecturing happens at fixed ...
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Are software citations indexed?
It is encouraged to cite relevant software in research papers (e.g. MIT guide). The question is,
Are these citations indexed at all by any engine?
I can hardly find any software on e.g. google scholar ...
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How should I reference my Github repository with materials for my paper?
I am writing a paper describing some of the research I have done. As part of my work I have developed an open-source library and made it available on Github.
How should I link to it?
Should I cite ...
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Software for creating hand-written slides that are revealed gradually
I am looking for software to create slides like these.
I want everything to be hand-drawn/hand-written.
I don't want to draw/write anything at the time of presentation, but I want parts of the slides ...
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Which authors do I use when citing technical documentation which is community-editable and has multiple contributors?
Let's take this sample page from Microsoft Docs. It lists multiple contributors (linked below the heading), some from the community with nicknames, as the pages can be edited by practically everyone ...
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Which software is appropriate for drawing complicated block diagrams in academic papers?
What sort of software can I use to make block diagrams, such as those used in machine learning papers? For example, this graph:
From the paper: https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.676.pdf
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