What is the best way to make academic research more user friendly without comprising on research ethics ?
Dear Dr. Anthony Baidoo, it is an interesting issue. There are reports that deal about on how to make your work visible by many. Here are some of the ways among the different fingings.
- Try to develop a website accessible by many. Inaccessible websites are barriers to all users.
"The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect." - Tim Berners-Lee, Father of the World Wide Web
- Try to develop visionful a research that can be applicable by others.
- Try to conduct a survey or usability testing of your academic research outputs and system used for outreaching. Testing users informs decisions about the library website. You have evidence to make and defend your decisions.
- Tray to make it easily accessible by many through using different IT networking mechanisms.
1. RG,
2. Google Scholar,
3. LinkedIn,
4.YouTube,
5. etc
- Try to maintain the navigation simple
“I don’t want to have to navigate this site the way they want me to. I just want to find the thing I’m looking for.” - Jakob Nielsen
- Do not clutter your home page with too many options.Try to manage the home page so that researchers easily use it for their research.
- Try to avoid unfamiliar terms are barriers to users fully utilizing your research resources/services.
https://webflow.com/blog/10-essential-ui-design-tips
https://phys.org/news/2017-04-social-media-academia-user-friendly.htm
https://www.ebsco.com/blog/article/7-best-practices-for-creating-a-user-friendly-library-website
Dear Anthony,
Interesting question. However, there are many dimensions in which we could discuss the subject. To name just a few:
best way to make academic research more user-friendly to students
best way to make academic research more user-friendly to researchers
best way to make academic research more user-friendly to companies relate to universities
and so on...
I´d like to contribute to this discussion. Please, tell us what dimension you want to grasp better, and I´ll be glad to write about.
Best wishes.
Prof. Aurelio Hess
Dear Dr. Anthony Baidoo, it is an interesting issue. There are reports that deal about on how to make your work visible by many. Here are some of the ways among the different fingings.
- Try to develop a website accessible by many. Inaccessible websites are barriers to all users.
"The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect." - Tim Berners-Lee, Father of the World Wide Web
- Try to develop visionful a research that can be applicable by others.
- Try to conduct a survey or usability testing of your academic research outputs and system used for outreaching. Testing users informs decisions about the library website. You have evidence to make and defend your decisions.
- Tray to make it easily accessible by many through using different IT networking mechanisms.
1. RG,
2. Google Scholar,
3. LinkedIn,
4.YouTube,
5. etc
- Try to maintain the navigation simple
“I don’t want to have to navigate this site the way they want me to. I just want to find the thing I’m looking for.” - Jakob Nielsen
- Do not clutter your home page with too many options.Try to manage the home page so that researchers easily use it for their research.
- Try to avoid unfamiliar terms are barriers to users fully utilizing your research resources/services.
https://webflow.com/blog/10-essential-ui-design-tips
https://phys.org/news/2017-04-social-media-academia-user-friendly.htm
https://www.ebsco.com/blog/article/7-best-practices-for-creating-a-user-friendly-library-website
1. Use easy to follow language
2. Make research/data available in various places such as RG, Google Scholar, etc.
3. Have your own web page with suitable links to references or pertinent data
Use of well constructed excellent languages with good connection of statements of fact.
Use of simplified and well processed statistical analysis.
Finally, publish the research work in open access journal to promote the easy accessibility.
Research accessibility is best through RESEARCHGATE and GOOGLE SCHOLAR. Making research User friendly will depend on user ability and research complexity.
What is the best way to make academic research more user friendly?
Good writing is the cornerstone of making research findings fully accessible to the widest possible audience of readers. Short simple sentences with well-chosen words are desirable, where possible. Any complex aspect of the reported work should be explained in easy-to-understand terms.
I think, when you write an article think of the senior technician. A senior technician should normally understand the most of your paper.
1. Academic research carried out should be of interest to the common mass, 2. Language should be simple, 3. Your research paper must be easily available, so one must upload his paper at easily available site if rules allows.
Publication in open access journal is the best way.
All articles should be written in easily understandable way.
Write the research in easy and clear way then publish it in open access journal, also uploaded the research on Google scholar and researchgate to be available for all readers.
Making your contributions availabe on an open access platforms where young scholars, particularly in the least developed/developing countries can easily access your publications.
All the best.
Dear respected RG Scholars,
Thank you all for the rich inputs made.
Prof Hesse, thank you for making me know the other dimensions. Would be glad to know the about the three stated dimensions: students, researchers and industry.
Thank you.
A. Baidoo
Notably, scholars in different scientific domains constitute various specialized speech communities whereby they are separated from one another and identified by specific technical and normative standards. Thus, the technicality associated with a particular field of study is justified as far as demarcation issues are concerned and such technicalities pose no problems to the members of the given speech community. However, as you have rightly observed, there is need for extending the audience that are not members, but would like to study the latest developments in scientific disciplines.Consequently, writing for lay audiences is an important requirement in order to increase scientific literacy even though this kind of writing is difficult for the scientists. However, by changing the format of the reports and replacing technical terms by less difficult semi technical and general words, scientists can improve lay communication effectively.
If the research is for academic contribution than very much carefully planning ,approach , studying involvement , to be kept in mind so that in academic research nature justification may remain the part of the contributory factor.
With this with the academic research performance which its action may become more user & friendly for the action where it may turn out to be a successful research contribution .
This is my personal opinion
Dear Anthony Baidoo,
I thank you for raising this important topic. Yes, it is really important to realize that in the 21st century it is necessary to revise the traditional approach for presenting a scientific article in the form of .pdf, .docx and other formats. Modern opportunities provide a wide range of tools and opportunities for presenting scientific results in a very accessible and popular form. Most users would be interested only in applying these scientific results to solve their own problems. However, scientists would be interested in understanding the theory and methodology of these scientific results in order to create their own theories and methodologies. I want to recall that the famous proof of the Poincaré conjecture presented by Grigory Perelman is very valuable primarily as a method of solution that can be used to prove other scientific results. That is, this method is much more important than the result, which itself is also undoubtedly very important for science. Thus, we come to an understanding of the fact that the article format should be presented as a scientific website in the public domain or the Online Tool. This site could solve all the problems:
1. For ordinary users, to solve their problems
2. For scientists, to understand the theory
3. For students to study the solution algorithm without a detailed understanding of the theory
4. For graduate students, to learn the language of presentation of scientific results
All these properties could be used to create the Online Tool. In addition, it is important to note that this is the most effective and shortest way to present scientific results ignoring any journals that have long become a business. Now you may not think more about whether would they accept or reject scientific work for a subjective reason. Now only a wide audience will decide is whether the article good or bad. It's very easy to do - you just need to recommend an article. The total number of recommendations will show the value of the article and this will be an absolutely democratic approach.
in my opinion the use of networking for diffusion are key at the moment of being able to the reach of all the new knowledge at the disposal of more investigators and people who can apply that knowledge or have new ideas thanks to this knowledge
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