Why do people still put in the town a company is in instead of the identifier (catalog num) for a reagent?

(GFAB antibody Sigma, Trenton, OH) - look familiar? When was the last time you bought something from a company by calling the switchboard for that city? That is where this practice comes from. Is...

01 February 2015 4,252 0 View

Is there a sustainability model for academic databases?

The funding agencies and societies have commissioned a multitude of biological databases, 2334 at last count according to the NIF Registry, and the question that we keep hearing is "my renewal is...

31 December 2013 6,023 3 View

We aggregate data, have done so for hundreds of data sets and put them on a uniform service api, is that useful to anyone?

Here are the specifics: There current data summary is here: http://nif-services.neuinfo.org/servicesv1/v1/summary?q=* The other services are based on the id of each database and can be accessed...

06 July 2013 7,336 2 View

Why not use catalog numbers for reagents in methods?

After some analysis of methods sections in various journals, we found that just about everyone is using the vendor name and location (as if anyone is actually going to write a letter to a...

06 July 2013 9,360 2 View

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02 March 2021 932 1 View

APA 7th In-Text citations with two references with three authors with the same surname, but four different author?

I have an issue with APA 7th in-text citation. II have two papers where the first three authors are the same, and the fourth is different. I am using the Mendeley desktop app, and automatically it...

02 March 2021 790 3 View

Where can I find life cycle inventory or assessment of non woven materials?

Dear network, I am looking for the LCA or LCI or at least the energy balances of the non woven fabrics process for my master project, in specific for natural fibers, yet I have found...

02 March 2021 9,662 1 View

How Download/Extract citations of 1 given year ALL my publications in Google Scholar?

If you google this you find a lot of smart guys explaining you how to download 1 year of citations of 1 single paper of yours (or anyone else). I mean 1 year of ALL my papers. or ... ALL years or...

01 March 2021 1,121 9 View

How can I edit suggested publications?

Hi there! I regularly receive suggestion about papers and authors that are totally out of my area. Does anybody know how I can fix this? Thank you!

01 March 2021 9,574 4 View

Could you please recommend some good journal that accept very long revie papers (approximately 6000+ words) in neurosurgery, cancer biology ?

Could you please recommend some good journal that accept very long revie papers (approximately 6000+ words) in neurosurgery, cancer biology ?

01 March 2021 8,087 3 View

Any research paper call for publication related to management or finance or economics?

It should be standard journal (Indexed)

01 March 2021 8,379 1 View

Could anyone tell me what is the range of submillimeter wave?

There is confusion regarding the submillimeter-wave range. Many papers specify its range from 300GHz but some also consider its range from 100GHz. If I design an antenna on 122ghz what would I...

01 March 2021 516 7 View

Any research papers for extraction of nutrient deprivation on macroalgae? Analysed by HPLC-UV and GC/MS. Possibly from macroalgae genus Rhizoclonium?

I am doing my thesis on the nutrient deprivation on the macroalgae Rhizoclonium sp. I will be analysing the levels over a period of roughly 5 days by HPLC-UV and GC/MS. I will be using seawater as...

28 February 2021 6,477 1 View

How to highlight novelty in your research paper?

I have come up with a method and had written a paper on it. Paper got rejected by a journal stating that there is no theoretical novelty. I am kind of confused on why the novelty that I am able to...

28 February 2021 2,393 8 View