In Review: a new way to open up the submissions and peer review process
A manuscript is much more than words on paper. Painstakingly drafted, fuelled by coffee over long nights, then (constructively) dismantled by… Read more »
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BMC Energy – open for submissions!
On 14th August 2018, the latest BMC Series journal BMC Energy opened for submissions. Editor Dr Harriet Manning discusses the motivation behind this… Read more »
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International Women’s day: women that pressed for progress
March 8th marks International Women’s Day and this year the theme is #PressforProgress. With recent events pushing gender… Read more »
10 tips for promoting your research online
How do you make sure the right people are seeing your research? Is it being read as much as you’d like? In this guest blog,… Read more »
Improving students’ academic performance – there’s an app for that
A recent article published in International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education makes a case for a… Read more »
Free Internet based paraphrasing tools: further threats to academic integrity
Paraphrasing tools or article ‘spinners’ are free Internet sites which use computer programs to change writing so it looks… Read more »
Peer Review Week – it’s back!
Given all the support and interest in the first ever Peer Review Week it’s great to see that it’s back again, championing the… Read more »
Information design matters
How to convey information was an emerging theme of the Council of Science Editors Annual Meeting that I have recently attended.… Read more »
A peerless review? Automating methodological and statistical review
Peer review is the primary mechanism for ensuring the integrity of the published literature; however, it is a human system with… Read more »
Today is Ada Lovelace Day! Who is your role model in STEM?
Laura Wheeler from Digital Science tells more about Ada Lovelace Day and how Digital Science are inspiring those to share their… Read more »