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Academic writing in a nutshell
Throughout your career as a student and/or researcher you will produce a series of reports, papers, publications and other texts, in many cases in fluent English. Tips and tricks to improve your writing in English are collected on the UGent portal: How to write a paper.
The faculty of …
Read moreAuthorship: authorship roles (contribution disclosure – author(ship) contribution statements)
Authorship
Recognition for a person's effective contribution to a scholarly publication is done primarily through the inclusion, or not, of the names of (individual) contributors on a (more or less) limited list of names associated with that publication.
The place on this list determines in most cases the "importance" of …
Read moreAuthorship: conditions to be included as an author
The conditions
Researchers who contribute significantly to the creation of the publication are added to the authors list.
This involves 4 (cumulative!) conditions:
- a significant contribution to the design of the research, relevant data collection, its analysis, and/ or interpretation;
- drafting and/or critical reviewing the publication;
- approval of the final …
Authorship: what is the Ghent University policy?
Authorship
Authorship is related to the actual contribution someone makes to a scientific publication.
Various stakeholders in science (research institutions, faculties, funders, publishers, journals, etc.) have developed standards to regulate this aspect of scholarly publishing.
Authorship is an important (co-)factor for the academic impact and reputation of individual researchers …
Read moreAutomatic alerts on recent publications: a how-to
The website JournalTOCs provides Tables of Contents (ToC) for many journals.
You can receive e-mail alerts of new issues after (free) registration.
Many (scholarly) databases allow you to subscribe to alerts as well, so you can stay informed on new content via e-mail or RSS feeds. Check …
Read moreCollaborating on an article: what are your options?
These days, many projects are done as a team, and writing assignments are no exception. It can be challenging to collaborate efficiently on the same text, especially if you and your co-authors mostly communicate online. Fortunately, there are a number of online tools that allow you to write, edit, …
Read moreCreative commons: open licence for copyrighted works
General info
A Creative Commons licence is an open licence. These kinds of licences allow certain, globally recognised, standardised re-use of copyrighted material. It is a so called upfront licence. You don't have to ask for permission to access, share or use a protected work, the permission is granted automatically. …
Read moreEU funding: what are the Open Access requirements for publications in Horizon Europe?
In Horizon Europe, the European Commission (EC) requires that all peer-reviewed publications resulting from project funding are open access (OA), i.e., freely available online with no restrictions on use, by depositing them in a repository. Peer reviewed articles should be made Open Access immediatly after publications, embargo's are no …
Read moreGenAI: transcription of interviews with Whisper
Whisper is an open-source speech-to-text tool developed by OpenAI that can be used to transcribe audio and video files. By using HPC-UGent (High Performance Computing), you can easily and quickly generate high-quality transcriptions of interviews, in multiple languages. Furthermore, you data stays safe, because the model is run locally.
Why … Read moreGenAI: Using (Gen)AI for peer review and evaluations
Generative AI (GenAI) is increasingly becoming part of our daily lives, and (Gen)AI applications can be used for many different tasks. However, this does not mean that its use is always permitted or that it is ethical and responsible. Are you allowed to use (Gen)AI to evaluate an article, research …
Read moreOpen Access colours: green, gold, diamond, hybrid and more
Open Access comes in different colours. While we especially use the term green OA, gold OA and hybrid OA, other terms refine those broader terms.
This tip addresses some of the Open Access flavours.
DiamondDiamond Open Access refers to a scholarly publication model in which journals and platforms do …
Read moreOpen Access to your publications
Open Access refers to the practice of making peer-reviewed scholarly research and literature freely available online to anyone interested.
Open means anyone can freely access, use, modify, and share for any purpose, subject, at most, to requirements that preserve provenance and openness. It does not affect authors' freedom to choose …
Read moreOpen Access: How to use the Rights Retention Strategy?
Publish with Power – Protect your Rights
Funders such the European Commission (Horizon Europe) require immediate open access with a CC BY license to all peer-reviewed scholarly publications. To meet those requirements, researchers have three options:
Open Research Europe: what is it?
Open Research Europe
Open Research Europe (ORE) is a scholarly publishing platform available to Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe beneficiaries. It comes at no cost, has a rigorous and open peer review process, and the open access model enables everyone to access the results.
The ORE platform was set up …
Read morePID: What is a persistent identifier for publications and datasets?
What is a persistent identifier?
A persistent identifier or PID, such as a DOI or Handle, is a permanent, unique reference to a digital object. Not all identifiers ensure persistency and uniqueness like a PID (see examples below). Moreover, when a PID for a digital object is created, descriptions of …
Read morePlagiarism detection: use of the tool StrikePlagiarism
Where can you find the tool?
Checking articles or other textual work for plagiarism? Recently, it can be done with a new tool, StrikePlagiarism. The new tool is built into the Ufora learning environment.
Teachers are already familiar with it in the context of checking papers or assignments …
Read moreProQuest: introduction
ProQuest is a portal of scientific databases. Ghent University has access to 19 databases:
- Acta Sanctorum
- APA PsycArticles
- Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
- C19: The Nineteenth Century Index
- Coronavirus Research Database
- Early Modern Books
- Ebook Central
- Gerritsen Women's History Collection of Aletta H. Jacobs
- International Bibliography of Art (IBA)
- MEDLINE …
Publish: how to submit an article in a scholarly journal?
How do you get your article published in a journal? How do you choose the right journal?
The Knowledge Center for Health Ghent (KCGG) lists several tips on getting published for the medical sciences. Here's a selection of generally applicable tips.
How do you select a journal? Criterion Tools Content Read moreResearch integrity: trending topic – paper mills
This section draws on:
the relevant web pages of COPE concerning the paper mill phenomenon. https://publicationethics.org/publishers-perspective-paper-mills + related resources as mentioned on this page.
https://www.enago.com/academy/paper-mills-a-rising-concern-in-the-academic-community/
Current topics are often new and knowledge is subject to further development or deepening. This tip was prepared on the basis of the relevant …
Read moreResources: where to find information on retracted or contested publications?
Why is this important?
Knowledge accumulation is a fundamental principle in science and forms the basis for progress and innovation. Through a continuous process, knowledge is acquired, deepened, broadened and revised. This process enables researchers to continuously ask new questions and solve complex problems. This involves building on past research …
Read moreRetraction Watch: what is it?
Retraction Watch, acquired by Crossref in September 2023, is a database that lists retracted (retractions) or corrected (corrections) publications, or publications with an expressions of concern. A blog is connected to the database, highlighting some of the retracted publications. Though Retraction Watch only started in 2010, older publications can …
Read moreSearching scientific literature: an example from psychology by prof. dr. Brosschot
Almost every scientific study starts with an extensive literature search. You look for the articles written on your subject of interest and you'll gradually discover unanswered questions or new lines of thoughts worth exploring.
When you start writing your own article, you'll usually include a literature review summarising the …
Read moreSearching: what is the snowball search method?
The snowball search method is a way of tracking down related works by using the bibliography or reference list at the end of an article as your starting point. After all, there's a good chance that the sources the author has consulted while writing will be relevant to your own …
Read moreWorking Paper: what is it? Where to find it?
A working paper or discussion paper is a “work in progress”, a paper you're still working on. It's a preliminary, nearly finished, unpublished version of your research project that's not yet ready to be presented at a conference nor to get published in a journal.
You have a hypothesis and/or …
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