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Research data producers need to be rewarded and acknowledged for their work. The readers of your research also need to be able to track the sources you used, including the data. This is why data must be cited properly, just like books or papers. Our resident citations expert Catherine Brendow explains how.
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You could think of Zotero as a house which you may want to customise to suit your needs. Instead of adding a porch or a swimming pool, this takes the form of plugins that allow you to add features to your reference manager. With the arrival of Zotero 7, which has brought some changes to the plugin landscape, this blog post has been updated.
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November is Academic Writing Month! Writing theses, articles or books is a key skill for graduate students and researchers, and it is not an easy one to master. To help students master it, the Graduate Institute Library offers a wide choice of print and e-books on this topic. These resources are often updated and presented in a dedicated libguide, as well as a temporary display in the entrance of the Library.
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You probably all know what plagiarism is: using someone else’s work without giving them proper credit. It is a form of theft, a serious breach of academic ethics, and is heavily sanctioned, for students and for researchers alike. But what is the meaning the word “self-plagiarism”? You cannot steal from yourself! Our colleague Catherine Brendow explains.
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78% of the journal articles published by our researchers in 2023 were open-access, compared to 66% in 2022, 52% in 2021, and 35% in 2020. This progress is driven by our Read and Publish agreements with major publishers, the OA mandates of many funders, and the conviction of most researchers that open-access publishing is good for them. But is this “gold route” sustainable in the long term?
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