My very first manuscript published in Physical Review Letters (major physics journal!) came about by drawing figures on piece of papers (basically mocked-up figures) with
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Writing Your First Scientific Paper, Part I: The “Data/Story Flow”
You’ve been working hard, around the clock to get all the data out. You might even have submitted an abstract about your current to the
Online Collaborative Writing using LaTeX
LaTex / TeX has been a favourite of scientists for a long time. For many, TeX typesetting is considered to be producing the most beautiful and elegant
Open-access publications
In an era when most research efforts are publicly funded through federal, provincial and other government programs, open-access journals seem a natural “public” return on
Authorship of Scientific Articles | ORGANIZING CREATIVITY
This topic probably happen between you (the thesis advisor) and the first author (your grad student) for almost every paper: what is the author list
PhD project or PhD projects?
Two of my PhD students have successfully defended their thesis in the past three weeks. For both of them, they have accomplished what constituted the
PhD Comics’ What is Open Access?
Have a look at this post over at Organizing Creativity: PhD Comics’ What is Open Access?
Zotero on the go!
In the previous post I was describing the free Zotero scientific manuscript management software. Through a comment via this blog and others, I was pointed
Invest in a good manuscript (PDF) management system
If, as starting graduate students, you are following my first key advice of reading on a regular basis scientific manuscripts related to your field of
A single advice about publishing your first scientific paper…
I always wondered what would be the single, most important advice I could give a new graduate student who is looking forward to have his
Ruminating... 