Authenticity in academic editing
This time I am taking a look at some issues surrounding integrity as an editor. Clients generally share my general expectations and attitudes around what an editor should and should…
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Developing new paradigms together
As we move closer to the middle of our third year since the pandemic began, it’s worth thinking again about what’s changed and how we’ve adapted. Even more importantly, how…
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The value of volunteering
When was the last time you considered the benefits of volunteering? Everyone is pressed for time. Deadlines, multiple projects, responsibilities at home and at work, when do you have a…
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Top tips for teaching online
This is the second of two newsletters with practical advice on online education. The first concerned learning online and this one includes some hints for teaching online. University lecturers might…
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Top tips on learning online
This is the first of two sets of practical advice on online education. Because of the pandemic, once they adjusted to teaching and learning online, some universities actually closed some…
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Which to use: a small or a large editorial service?
There has been a constant push from some larger academic editing services to market themselves as the best to universities and research institutes. Let’s compare a small one or two…
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Get your qualifications and experience recognised
Do you need help with getting overseas qualifications recognised in Australia? This is a quick guide to how this is done. It might also be helpful for other jurisdictions like…
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Top tips on presenting at a conference
This is the last of a three part series on virtual conferences and how to make the most of them. The first session was on adapting your networking strategies for…
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Top tips on proposals for conferences
This is the second of a three part series on conferences and how to make the most of them. The last session was on adapting your networking strategies for an…
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Top tips on virtual networking at conferences
This is the first of a three part series on conferences and how to make the most of them.
Simple steps for a painless literature review
Where do you start? You can begin with finding one useful reference and then trace back from the references to research within it that you think will add something to…
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Top tips for literature reviews
This time I will dive into the world of literature reviews. The first time I wrote about this was published as my first blog in June 2020. As an editor,…
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Reflecting over the past year
Every time we reach toward the end of a year, it is a great chance to reflect on what happened over this period. What really is the last date of…
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Top tips for media releases and more
This time I am continuing with the theme of communicating outside of the formal channels of research publication. As you can imagine, this calls for a less formal approach in…
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AI and communication
This time I am going to try to look into the future and make some predictions about how AI will be used for our processes of communication. It will be…
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Impact factors: the elephant in the room
The theme today is journal impact factors and what they are perceived to mean. In other words, let’s take a good close look at some rich data around journal impact…
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Try an alternative
This time we are taking another look at what is involved in communicating about your manuscript to a journal. You might remember that I have written about getting published in…
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Time saving: eight top tips
In Australian universities in particular, there have been crashing staff cuts over the last year due to international students not coming. This is on top of the constant erosion of…
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If you want to go far, go together
There is an African proverb which translates as “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together”. I found these wonderful words on…
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Getting published in high impact journals
People (including me) discuss and write a lot about what a high impact journal might look like, the democratisation of research publication, and if journal rankings are or should be…
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Journals and impact metrics: a quick look
There is an immense pressure on researchers to be published in the journals “that matter”. This is a brief overview of some of what might be useful to know when…
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7 open science tools for analysing your research field
This is the last of the 3 part series on open science tools. Here you will find 7 tools that allow for in-depth analyses of research fields by connecting open…
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13 open publishing tools
This is the second of three newsletters about open science tools. Please click here for Part 1 on 10 free tools that help you with your literature search. Part 3…
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Do you need some freely accessible tools for searching through scientific research? These resources are passed on from Dr Anna Clemens, who learned about them in a workshop in late…
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