Research Pages

We discuss SARS-CoV-2 'new variants' and try to clear up some of the confusion around all the names flying around. Hopefully this helps to give some insights into the various names you hear, but probably by the time you listen the whole thing will have changed again since this field moves so rapidly. Andrew apologises in advance for all the errors that will be found in this podcast! If you want to read a bit more theres an interesting news item on Nature: www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00097-w

The process of writing a scientific paper can be complex with lots of little details nobody tells you about. We discuss how it all works practically, from the inception of an idea to getting your paper into review.

We discuss different resources used in research: databases such as free ones like Google Scholar and Pubmed to paid databases, author profiles such as ORCID, and the pros and cons of them. See @research-pages (https://soundcloud.com/research-pages) for all of our other episodes.

Reference managers can save you a lot of time and energy when writing papers, but are an often overlooked tool. We look into what they actually are, why we need them, our own experiences with a variety of different reference managers, and some of the pros and cons. See https://soundcloud.com/research-pages for all of our other episodes.

Reproducing results from scientific papers can be a challenge. Using bioinformatics as an example, we discuss how to make it easier to reproduce results, covering: pipelines, compute, software, storage, and metadata. See https://soundcloud.com/research-pages for all of our other episodes

We discuss DORA (Declaration on Research Assessment) and its impact on Researchers, Publishers, metrics providers, Institutions and funders.

This podcast discusses why academic research groups need information professionals covering: busting sterotypes, different types of information professionals, sharing what information professionals do, embedded librarians, managing data itself and the right tool for the job.

In this show we discuss academic peer review: what is peer review and why its important, how it works from a reviewers perspective, open versus blind review, why its a good thing, what a reviewer gets out of the process, the cost of Knowledge campaign and peer review systems (websites).