What is Creative Commons?Creative Commons attempts to counter what Lawrence Lessig, founder of Creative Commons, considers to be a dominant and increasingly...
Choosing the Right Journal For Your ResearchPublication in a peer-reviewed journal is the obvious goal of most research projects. It is through publication that your research...
From Dissertation to BookGetting Started, Again A young scholar completes a Ph.D. thesis and is congratulated by the supervising committee. A first-rate work, it...
How to Prepare a Manuscript for International JournalsIn 2005, Elsevier asked me to give a course on scientific writing. The course was very successful, and since then, I have organized...
Don’t Rely on Our University Rankings Alone, QS Tells PutrajayaDespite Malaysian universities’ continued strong showing in QS Quacquarelli Symonds’s world rankings, the London-based firm has cautioned...
Writing Conference Papers and Journal Articles" As part of your development into a fully professional researcher, there are two important pieces of writing that PhD student should be...
Strategies for Overcoming Writer's BlockSometimes researchers experience writer’s block. This can cause anxiety which in turn makes the writer even more anxious. The key is to...
Important Types of Open Access JournalOpen-access journals publish their papers on the Web for everyone to read, whether or not they are subscribers to the journal (although...
Important Articles About Publication"To understand why publishing determines which PhD students will become future academics, we can compare it to the concept of Natural...
Becoming a Reviewer: Guidelines and Best PracticePeer review is the system for evaluating the quality, validity, and relevance of scholarly research. The process aims to provide authors...