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1. Writing and Publishing Scientific Papers- A Primer for the Non-English Speaker: Bhagirath Kumar

   Writing and Publishing Scientific Papers- A Primer for the Non-English Speaker

   By Gábor L. Lövei (author)

   Free Download: https://lnkd.in/dPepNqva

   Book Website: https://lnkd.in/dq2bZ6W4

   Gábor Lövei’s scientific communication course for students and scientists explores the intricacies involved in publishing primary scientific papers, and has been taught in more than twenty countries. Writing and Publishing Scientific Papers is the distillation of Lövei’s lecture notes and experience gathered over two decades; it is the coursebook many have been waiting for.

   The book’s three main sections correspond with the three main stages of a paper’s journey from idea to print: planning, writing, and publishing. Within the book’s chapters, complex questions such as ‘How to write the introduction?’ or ‘How to submit a manuscript?’ are broken down into smaller, more manageable problems that are then discussed in a straightforward, conversational manner, providing an easy and enjoyable reading experience.

   Writing and Publishing Scientific Papers stands out from its field by targeting scientists whose first language is not English. While also touching on matters of style and grammar, the book’s main goal is to advise on first principles of communication.

   This book is an excellent resource for any student or scientist wishing to learn more about the scientific publishing process and scientific communication. It will be especially useful to those coming from outside the English-speaking world and looking for a comprehensive guide for publishing their work in English.

2. LinkedIn: Raj Abhijit Dandekar

   I have a research experience of close to 7 years, combining the research I did at IIT Madras and at MIT.

   In this post, I will try to compile a list of resources/tools which helped me during my research journey. These tools can potentially help anyone who has not done research before or is struggling with various aspects of research during their Masters/PhD.

   Here is the list of tools/resources:

   (1) Mendeley (mendeley.com): Mendeley is a great tool for searching research papers, sorting them based on their citations, managing references and adding notes on PDFs within the application itself. It can also be used as a Desktop app.

   (2) Litmaps (litmaps.com): The first step of doing research is literature review. Litmaps is a brilliant tool for quickly finding literature review papers based on your topic of interest. It's most brilliant feature: it generates a visual flowchart of all papers at a glance. It reduces a researcher’s time taken to find literature review papers by at least 50%.

   (3) Overleaf (overleaf.com): Overleaf is a really effective tool in writing LaTeX documents. If you are not comfortable with LaTeX and want to create beautiful looking PDF documents: Overleaf is the way to go. When I want to make a research report or summarize my observations or generate any PDF related to my research, I always go to Overleaf.

   (4) Canva (canva.com): Science cannot speak for itself. You need to communicate your research in the best way possible. Canva helps you do that. It’s the best and most user friendly design tool I have ever used until now. Using Canva, you can create presentation slides, posters etc and become a powerful storyteller.

   (5) Microsoft To Do (https://todo.microsoft.com/tasks/): I used this tool almost every day. I used to maintain a list of tasks to be completed each day, on this app. Ticking off items when they are completed, gives us a tremendous sense of satisfaction. Even if experiments are failing or your theory is not working, ticking off small items like exercising for 30 mins or talking with your family, makes you feel like you have accomplished something during the day!

   (6) Slack (slack.com): Slack is probably the best tool for communicating with fellow researchers. Slack allows you to create different channels, organize conversations, share files, connect to Zoom/Drive/Dropbox etc without things becoming too cluttered.

   (7) Github (github.com): If you are working in a computational field in which code writing is involved, Github is the best way to collaborate with teams, review codes, test each other codes and track your progress. I used it extensively when I transitioned to machine learning (ML) research during my PhD.

   P.S: This image was made using Canva!