Dalmeet Singh Chawla
Online tool breaks down physicists’ research interests
Terms like cosmologist, string theorist, or particle physicist rarely capture the true scope of a scientist’s work. A new website plans...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Aug 8, 2018
- 1 min
Can automated tools reliably rate research reproducibility?
Recently the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) solicited research proposals on developing automated tools...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jun 20, 2018
- 1 min
Chemists criticise mooted shutdown of 3D visualisation tools
Researchers are voicing concerns over a move that may affect many 3D visualisation programs that are commonly used in computational...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- May 10, 2018
- 1 min
Physics reviewers are concise
Physicists can get wordy when describing their own work, but apparently they get straight to the point when providing feedback to others....
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 20, 2018
- 1 min
Blockchain to help scholarly publishing fight fraud
A new publishing system that uses the underlying technology behind the popular cryptocurrency bitcoin promises to solve some of...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 22, 2018
- 1 min
Online tool calculates reproducibility scores of PubMed papers
A new online tool unveiled 19 January measures the reproducibility of published scientific papers by analyzing data about articles that...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 21, 2017
- 1 min
Online tools enable unprecedented access to science research
This year has been an interesting one in the world of scholarly publishing. It has seen lawsuits against websites illegally or illicitly...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 1, 2017
- 1 min
Technology behind bitcoin could aid science, report says
Blockchain, the technology behind the popular digital currency bitcoin, has the potential to transform research and the science...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Nov 14, 2017
- 1 min
Need a paper? Get a plug-in
A collection of web-browser plug-ins that trawl the web to find scholarly papers is making the scholarly literature more discoverable....
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 17, 2017
- 1 min
Who’s the most influential biomedical scientist? Computer program guided by artificial intelligence
Eric Lander, president and founding director of the Broad Institute and a biologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Sep 20, 2017
- 1 min
Publishers go after networking site for illicit sharing of journal papers
A major scientific publishing group is taking aim at a social networking site for allowing researchers to illegally post copies of their...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Aug 7, 2017
- 1 min
Half of papers searched for online are free to read
Almost half of the scholarly papers that people attempt to access online are now freely and legally available, according to a huge study...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jun 14, 2017
- 1 min
Great paper? Swipe right on the new ‘Tinder for preprints’ app
A web application inspired by the dating app Tinder lets you make snap judgments about preprints—papers published online before peer...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jun 8, 2017
- 1 min
Text-mining tool seeks out ‘hidden data’
Forgotten to free your data? A tool is searching out instances of locked online research data sets that are supposed to be public — and...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Apr 6, 2017
- 1 min
Online Platform Aims to Facilitate Replication Studies
A volunteer-run database called StudySwap, which launched in beta last month, is starting to gain momentum. Initially, the platform aimed...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Apr 4, 2017
- 1 min
Unpaywall finds free versions of paywalled papers
An online widget that trawls the Internet searching for free-to-read versions of paywalled papers has been installed more than 10,000...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 10, 2016
- 1 min
Web widget nudges scientists to share their data
A new web-based tool that promises to assist its users in requesting scientific data from authors of research papers launched in beta...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 4, 2016
- 1 min
The unsung heroes of scientific software
Coding is often treated as second-class activity in scientific research but a new tool launched by the Vancouver-based research software...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Sep 28, 2015
- 1 min
Digital badges aim to clear up politics of authorship
Publishers BioMed Central and Ubiquity Press have started using digital badges to clarify who did what to a scientific paper in a...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- May 28, 2015
- 1 min
Researchers argue for standard format to cite lab resources
A single, standard format to identify resources such as model organisms and reagents used in published experiments is catching on with...
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