Category: researchers

How to get Published with IEEE 14 March 2019



Are you thinking of publishing your research? New/relatively new to publishing your work? University of Greenwich staff and student researchers are invited to come to our session in Stockwell Street Library on Thursday 14th March at 11.00 am to find out how to get published. Sign up at Eventbrite.

Explore open access books event 23 April 2018

Explore open access books: an Academic Book Week event for authors and researchers, hosted by Springer Nature
Date: Monday 23 April 2018
Location: Springer Nature London Campus, The Stables, 2 Trematon Walk, London, N1 9FN
Time: 1:30pm – 6:30pm
Register: Eventbrite

Find out more about Academic Book Week at: https://acbookweek.com/ and follow #AcBookWeek on Twitter.

If you can’t make the event don’t worry, you can watch the event as it is being streamed on Facebook from 2pm BST

Ask the panellists questions through commenting on the Facebook live feed

Join in the conversation on Twitter by following @SN_OAbooks and #AcBookWeek

Please contact the organiser if you’d like to receive a link to the recording after the event.

Scitable


Nature Education has launched a free, online educational resource for undergraduate biology students and educators. Currently focussed on genetics, Scitable combines scientific information with social media functionality.

Scitable provides students with free online access to more than 180 overviews of key genetics concepts. The overviews are evidence-based and have been vetted by Nature Publishing Group staff. By connecting with other Scitable users via groups, chat functionality and other social media features, students can collaborate online with classmates, or with a wider community of experts, researchers and fellow students.
Scitable is also intended as a teaching tool. Educators can set up public or private groups for their students, providing reading lists, course-packs of Scitable articles and group discussions. Scitable is flexible and can be incorporated into courseware services such as Blackboard.
Scitable currently contains content in the field of genetics, specifically: chromosomes and cytogenetics, evolutionary genetics, gene expression and regulation, gene inheritance and transmission, genes and disease, genetics and society, genomics, nucleic acid structure and function, and population and quantitative genetics. Nature Education plan to expand the service to other subject areas in future. More information can be found at: http://www.nature.com/scitable

Social networking site – Academia.edu launched

Dr Richard Price a Fellow of All Souls College Oxford has launched Academic.edu a social networking site for academics and researchers.
Academia.edu
– Displays academics, faculty members and post-doctoral students around the world in a ‘tree’ format, according to which university / department they are affiliated with.
– Enables researchers to keep track of the latest developments in their field – the latest people, papers, and talks.

Some of the professors on the site include:

– Richard Dawkins http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardDawkins
– Stephen Hawking http://cambridge.academia.edu/StephenHawking
– Noam Chomsky http://mit.academia.edu/NoamChomsky

Vitae Researchers’ Portal launched

Vitae, a new organisation to champion the professional and career development of researchers, was launched on 25th June 2008 by Ian Pearson MP alongside the new Concordat to support the career development of researchers. Vitae builds on previous work by the UK GRAD Programme and UKHERD to build capacity in the HE sector to support researchers and will work with higher education institutions, researchers and employers to make real and positive change. Find out more at: http://www.vitae.ac.uk/