Martin Jones talks citizen science ahead of SpotOn 18
Designing programs to interpret images is so complicated that for many tasks, humans still outperform machines. To keep up with the tide of images… Read more »
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BMC Mechanical Engineering is now open for submissions!
We are excited to announce that our latest engineering journal, BMC Mechanical Engineering, is now open for submissions! This journal further… Read more »
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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)… Read more »
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… Read more »
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
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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 »