Tag: academic writing
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Academic writing: Some resources
This post was originally written for The Doctoral Community @ LTE (link no longer active :/ ). A number of links have gone inactive since the article was written, although I do make an effort to update it every November. As some of you might be aware, November is Academic Writing Month, so I thought that it might…
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“Open access: six myths to put to rest”
Since writing my post on Open Access, this article by Peter Suber, the director of the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication, was brought to my attention. In response to what are described as six “common and harmful misunderstandings about open access”, the author notes that: 1. (Gold) Open Access journals are not the only venue for providing…
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Open Access: Some facts and some thoughts
Some key concepts about Open Access publishing.
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My paper, my way :)
Starting this July, all academic journals published by Elsevier will adopt the “Your paper, your way” policy that has been piloted since mid-2011. The policy is pretty much what the name says: contributors to any journal are welcome to submit papers in any format they choose, rather than have to adhere to the preferred styles of…