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24.04.2022
Data management in the life sciences
Good data partnerships depend on mutual respect, understanding each other’s roles, and strong communication. The rules for good data management in the life sciences you can be found in the Nature…
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04.07.2019
How to recognize predatory journal?
Predatory journalsIn the last decades, scholarly publishing was transformed by the development of the internet, particularly the possibility of open access publishing. It brought to rise of online…
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18.01.2019
Publons
Publons (Clarivate Analytics) is free leading online global peer-review platform to enable researchers to validate and showcase their contributions to peer review. Users upload the evidence of…
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17.12.2018
Open Access
Open access is a broad international academic movement that seeks free and open online access to academic information, such as publications and data. When anyone can read, download, copy, distribute,…
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17.12.2018
Citizen Science
Citizen Science is the systematic collection and analysis of data; development of technology; testing of natural phenomena; and the dissemination of these activities by researchers on a primarily…
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17.12.2018
Career Benefits of Open Science
Open Science has potential benefits for individual researchers. Increased visibility, potential collaborations, specialized funding, more citations, faster discoveries, and broader professional…
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17.12.2018
Commercialisation of Research
Research commercialization can happen in a number of ways: licensing, spin-out companies, royalties, incubation, and in-house development. In some cases, commercialization leads to actual financial…
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17.12.2018
Communicating Animal Research
Animal Research is a very controversial topic with strong advocates on both sides of the debate. Unfortunately, due to the threatening and even violent actions of a minority of Animal Rights…
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17.12.2018
Crowd Science
Citizen Science often involves crowdsourcing research problems that require huge amounts of information processing. These problems are opened to the public so that a large number of people with a…
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17.12.2018
Research Data Management
Research data management involves creating a data management plan, decisions on securely storing data both during and after the research project, organizing and structuring the data, curating the…
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17.12.2018
Open Research Data
Open research data involves making the data that supports research findings fully available to anyone. This usually involves putting full datasets in an online repository (e.g. NeuroMorpho, GenBank,…
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18.12.2018
Biohacking and Diybio Research
Biohacking is related to both Citizen Science and Open Source in that it is a community in which research non-professionals work with qualified scientists in a collaborative environment on scientific…
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18.12.2018
Open Source and Software
Open Source is in some ways the model upon which Open Science is based and a working demonstration that complex problems can be freely shared and collaborated on. While there are still risks and…
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18.12.2018
Pre-Registration
Pre-registration is closely linked with the Reproducibility or Replication Crisis. The concept is that if researchers have to state their hypothesis and their plan for testing it before they do the…
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18.12.2018
Predatory Journals
Access publishing model. Open Access publishing requires a publication fee so that the final content (the article) can be made freely available. However, a large number of companies now pretend to be…
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18.12.2018
Preprints
Academic publishing is a very lengthy process, as such a number of disciplines have started uploading articles on to preprint platforms. The physics community developed preprints over 20 years ago…
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18.12.2018
Public Engagement
Public engagement encompasses a wide variety of interactions between the scientific community and the public. While a talk or lecture can be a great way of communicating the results of research the…
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18.12.2018
Reproducibility
The issues related to reproducibility (sometimes called replication) started in the social sciences with Psychology. However, studies in an increasing number of disciplines have failed to be…
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04.07.2019
Microsoft Academic
Microsoft Academic is free public tool for academic publications. Microsoft Academic employs advances in machine learning, semantic inference and knowledge discovery to help you explore…
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24.10.2019
SHERPA/RoMEO
The service SHERPA/RoMEO provides information about the copyright and open access self-archiving policies of scientific journals. They use a color-coding system to classify …
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05.02.2021
Journal Finder
“What's the best journal for my paper?” Journal Finder can helpNeed some help to identify potential titles that fit your research? Then you can try JournalFinder tool by Elsevier publisher. It…
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05.02.2021
Extended Guide to Research Data Management
Science Europe launched a new extended edition of the research data management guide, with updated guidance for the evaluation of Data Management Plans (DMPs). Organisational requirements for data…
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09.02.2021
Open Access – discounts on article processing charges
Do you need information about discounts on article processing charges at different publishers? Visit the CzechELib website with information about the license agreements between publishers and…
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01.04.2021
WOS: Cited Reference Search
Cited reference search is now available in the new Web of Science, allowing you to search for records that have cited a published work, navigating the citation index for recent scholarly works…
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28.04.2021
Ten reasons to share your data
Making data available to the larger scientific community has many benefits.See article in Nature Index by Amanda S. Barnard
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15.06.2021
How to collaborate more effectively: 5 tips for researchers
Participating in a collaborative effort can be extremely challenging. To get the most out of it, you need a strategic approach. Read more in the Nature index article
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09.09.2021
Three ways to collaborate on writing: document-sharing tools for…
Science is a collaborative exercise, and whether they are writing papers or grant applications, or soliciting feedback from their thesis committee, researchers frequently must author, edit, and share…
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20.09.2021
E-learning course on Open Science
Are you interested in the topic of Open Science? Learn more about it in the new e-learning course on Open Science. After finishing this course you will:understand the concept and principles of open…
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06.10.2021
INFORMATION ON SCIENTIFIC RESULTS AND RELATED ACTIVITIES AT CEITEC MU
Information about selected procedures related to the publishing activities (affiliation, entering results to IS MU and transferring to RIV, personal identifiers) for the employees and PhD students of…
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01.11.2021
INFORMATION ON PUBLICATIONS IN NEWSLETTER, TV SCREENS AND WEBSITE AT…
Do you want to know the selection criteria for publishing your outcomes in newsletters, tv screens, and websites at CEITEC MU? This information includes the document available at IS MU.
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11.11.2021
Quality management and reproducibility in academic research
Reproducibility in academic research and particularly the lack thereof has been pointed out by many in recent publications as a limitation of current scientific practices. The report focused on these…
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11.01.2022
Increasing the visibility of peer review contributions
New peer review tab and metrics dashboardThe Web of Science™ Author Profiles now display peer review journal counts and an expanded metrics dashboard showing both publication and review metrics. This…
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12.01.2022
OVERVIEW OF THE KEY TOPICS RELATED TO SCIENTIFIC RESULTS AND USEFUL…
Do you need a simple overview of the key topics related to scientific results and useful documents links contact at CEITEC MU? Visit the document here.
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