Questions tagged [website]
Questions relating to websites. A website is a location connected to the Internet that maintains one or more web pages.
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Why are professors' websites so ugly?
I can't help but notice that even in CS, professors' websites are almost always difficult to navigate, poorly-organized, and just generally hard to look at (poorly-tiled backgrounds, inconsistent ...
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Do academics look down on well-designed academic websites?
Rationally, I should not be concerned about building a well-designed academic website for myself. But academic websites are consistently so visually spare and poorly designed that I would feel like a ...
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Is there a good site for holding online discussions of scientific papers?
Many of my computational scientist colleagues used to use Google Reader to share and discuss new journal articles. The loss of Reader's social features killed that, and we have subsequently tried ...
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Why do faculty use the software "Blackboard"?
It is becoming apparent to me that, outside my field, use of Blackboard and other LMS software is becoming extremely common. Indeed, a rash of technical problems here is making it apparent students ...
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Should I send a "cease-and-desist" letter to ResearchGate?
ResearchGate is pretty well placed on Google. But it does not have a lot of contents or active users, despite their constant invitation spam.
So they spidered a lot of publications, and provide some ...
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Where should I host a (simple) personal academic webpage?
I've finally decided to stop putting off creating an academic webpage for myself... both for the purposes of a job search and more generally to communicate what I'm about research-wise. But - where ...
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Should I host my academic website under my institution domain or under a domain of my own ?
My institution provides a dedicated storage space to host our academic websites, which is reachable via the institution domain (something like http://people.institution.org/John.Doe/).
I try to have ...
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Personal web page vs Academia.edu vs ResearchGate
I will soon finish my PhD and start searching for a post-doc position and I was wondering which web-based solution is the best suited to present myself and my work (I work in plant biology).
I see ...
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What's the purpose of writing one's academic biography in the third person?
I see some academics – both professors and grad students – write their biography on their university webpages in the third person, and it sounds really weird.
What's the purpose of writing about ...
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How do some researchers have such beautiful figures in publications, while their homepages look simple?
Do some PIs who publish in Nature, Cell or Science collaborate with professional designers?
The thing is that I have never seen it mentioned in their work. Is it a service offered by the journals? Or ...
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Free web hosting for academics
I would like to have a professional academic webpage, and for different reasons, I don't want to use the website of my current workplace (mostly because due to some external factors, it's not ...
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Why do universities tolerate uploading papers on their websites?
Lots of professors provide their full papers published by scholarly journals on their personal website (in the university official domain). PDF files of their final papers published by different ...
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Is it unusual for a math department not to have a mail/web server?
I'm a PhD student in a math department at a research university in the US. When I started the program I was given an account on the department server with a website and a nice department email address....
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Tool to manage and/or make available a list of my publications on the web?
This some kind of follow up question to How to prevent plagiarism of my papers?, since I've been clearly convinced that it was in my best interest to put my own papers on my webpage.
Now, since I ...
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Is it legal to use Sci-Hub in Germany?
I used to use this website to get the research papers that are not freely available online. So, passing the right name of any research work for this Russian website will derive the paper directly to ...
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Why do universities delete professor's personal web pages after they leave?
Professor's personal web pages hosted by their institution are crucial sources of information in two ways:
to disseminate useful and practical but not publishable information (especially in systems ...
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Criticizing other people's figures on my webpage
A few months ago I started collecting papers that contain figures I think convey information in a very efficient manner (i.e., figures that I think are very well illustrated and that should serve as ...
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Leaving academia - what to do with the personal website?
I have a question about "post-academia" personal websites. The question is open-ended and fuzzy because I am not 100% certain with what I would like to do, so I am also looking for suggestions.
Some ...
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Untrue negative comments on RateMyProfessor website
I pay close attention to how my rating scores/comments are like on the RateMyProfessor website. Very rarely I reported inappropriate comments (which violated site guidelines) for removals, and the ...
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How to transfer or delete a Google Scholar profile from my own account?
I accidentally created my advisor's Google scholar profile using my personal Gmail. Now I can't find a way to transfer the profile to him, nor can I delete his profile in my account.
Does anyone have ...
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How to get academic search engines only search in open access journals?
Sometimes I work from home, and for security reasons it is not possible to connect to the campus computers. I use Google Scholar for finding papers and so, but from home, most of the journals can not ...
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Why do professors list current position of their students on their webpages?
I see that most professors list their former Ph.D students and their
current positions on their web page. Is it a kind of advertisement? If so, why? If not, why not?
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What contents should I put on my academic website?
I'm planing to setup a personal academic website. From visiting other researchers websites I have a rough idea of the things I want to put on it:
- Research interests
- List of articles & ...
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Academic home page with low maintenance burden [closed]
It's been mentioned before on this site how important it is to have a webpage.
Most academics don't have a lot of experience with web development, and do not realistically have time to learn it and ...
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How can I export my Google Scholar Library as a BibTeX format?
In the My Library of Google Scholar, is there a way to export all of the citations, whether to BibTex or something similar?
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How to cite a site from the dark web?
For my masters degree in computer science, I'm currently working on a paper on ransomware. Goal of this paper is to focus on academic writing and citing sources correctly.
Trustworthiness/Quality of ...
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How to archive an academic blog or website?
Academic blogs and websites are emerging as an important component of academic discourse.
However, I often lack confidence that the content will remain accessible in the short term (e.g., 5 years) ...
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Is it normal for an instructor to charge students to complete copyrighted homework?
I have a class in a US university that is using a 3rd-party site to charge students a fee to access some of the homework essential to the course. One of the instructors (not mine) holds the copyright ...
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Shirtless picture on the academic page of a Ph.D. candidate seeking postdoc
I will finish my Ph.D. soon and am seeking a postdoc position.
To this purpose, I am creating my page, hosted by my university.
Personally, I don't generally take pictures of myself and don't like to....
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How do I politely ask a convenor to not publish my name on the conference website?
I will be presenting a paper at a major conference in the Spring: this will be my academic debut!
The issue is that I have a permament teaching job (middle school) that does not permit time off to ...
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Is it too pretentious for an undergraduate student to have their own personal page?
I am an undergraduate student from Brazil. I am not a mathematician yet because I've never published an article. I am very close to starting my master's degree and would like to have a personal page ...
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Importance of professional website to search committees
I am hitting the academic job market this fall and was advised to have a professional website, but I am completely lost in putting this advice into action. I now am sitting here thinking about making ...
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How to manage the web presence of a research group
Given the importance of web presence how does one manage the web presence of a research group? The simplest approach seems to be to use links to the personal webpages of the group members to supply ...
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Can "Feel free to contact me if you are interested in a copy of any of my publications." cause legal issues?
I know that some journals allow public archiving of publications (making them available for download) on a researcher's personal website. Some of these journals (at least in my field), however, ...
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Design of "Members Page" for Academic Lab Website?
I am a Computational Biologist as part of an academic lab group working on the Immunogenomics of disease vectors (which may be relevant to the following).
I am designing part of a web-page that ...
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Is it ethical to host ads on an institute provided homepage?
I am affiliated to an institute and they provide each student an opportunity to make their own homepage, which they can put up as www.[institute-webpage]/[username]. Now, this webpage is not reviewed ...
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Is it professional to have a "cited by" section of a personal website?
I'm not sure if there's a word or phrase for a "reverse bibliography", but that's what I'm looking to put on my website - a list of other papers that have cited my own work. The goal is to show that ...
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An invitation from Frontiers (Frontiers Research Topics)
On 13th August 2013 I received the following email. I have cut and pasted it below. I haven't bothered to insert back any of the links, but can do so if anyone is interested. I would not normally ...
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Google Scholar stopped indexing PDFs on GitHub/GitLab Pages [closed]
I self-archive my papers on a personal homepage hosted using GitHub Pages (sulir.github.io). Some time after the page was published, I had my papers properly indexed and displayed in Google Scholar. ...
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Is it safe to post one's research on web sites like Math Overflow for "peer review" before submitting to a journal?
Suppose in mathematics, someone finds a completely new elementary proof of a famous theorem and wants his work ''peer reviewed'' on a site like MathOverflow or MathStackExchange before submitting to a ...
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"I am looking for a job" on a student website, a good thing or a desperate sentence?
I saw that some students, even from top schools and who are giving faculty candidate talks are posting a sentence like, "I am actively looking for a job in ..". Is this a good thing or only shows a ...
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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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Are there any studies on how lecturer review sites such as Rate Your Lecturer affect student choices?
A version of the lecturer review website Rate Your Lecturer recently became active in the UK.
Do you know of any studies which consider to what extent students use this or any other review websites ...
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Presenting the publications of a research group online
I'm looking for advice on presenting the research publications of my group on our webpage. Most groups seem to go with a simple publication list, sorted by year and maybe publication type. But there ...
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Archival of deceased academics' websites
The sad news of Vaughan Jones have reminded me of a question I've been wanting to ask for a while.
A significant part of knowledge is stored on personal websites of scientists: preprints, lecture ...
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Are lay articles good enough to be the main source of information for PhD research?
Doing PhD in new field that does not have enough resources in it. Most of the information I find are articles written in websites such as medium.com.
I really feel awkward citing a website article, ...
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What are some typical reasons for a professor to not list their publications on their school website [closed]
I know of a full professor who doesn't list any of his publications on his website. He just gives name, title, email address and phone number.
Nothing more, literally.
When I search for his work ...
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Does a ResearchGate profile count as a "personal website" for green OA purposes?
According to SHERPA/RoMEO, many journals permit post-review preprints to be uploaded immediately to an author's "personal website", but apply an embargo period to "open access repositories" (example).
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How does Google Scholar find papers on personal websites?
Recently, I added a new paper to my personal website, and it appeared on Google Scholar a couple of days later. On my website, all I did was write the name of the paper, together with the authors and ...
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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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