Useful links and documents
Section outline
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Useful links - writing
- Passport for Open Science ouverte: A pratical guide for PhD Students
- English language guide for authors [https://www.aanda.org/images/stories/author/EnglishGuide.pdf] while written for authors for Astronomy and Astrophysics, this excellent guide applies to other disciplines
- Madison Wisconsin Writing Lab for Scientific Reports, including suggestions for each of the six parts of a paper (or scientific report). [https://writing.wisc.edu/handbook/assignments/sciencereport/]
- A list of common errors and advice by a professor of English at Washington State University, Paul Brians. [https://brians.wsu.edu/]
- Guide to Grammar and Writing is a resource by Capital Community College in Hartford Connecticut [http://www.guidetogrammar.org/grammar/index.htm]
- The alarming rise of predatory conferences [https://eos.org/opinions/the-alarming-rise-of-predatory-conferences]
- Webinar on how to write a research paper (one hour, by Ken Carlslaw) :
Useful links - submitting
- Two articles on the growing problem with predatory journals [https://eos.org/opinions/avoiding-predators-in-publishing] and with predatory conferences [https://eos.org/opinions/the-alarming-rise-of-predatory-conferences]
- Online tool for determining whether a journal is a predatory one [https://app.lib.uliege.be/compass-to-publish/]
- Why open science matters [https://www.ouvrirlascience.fr/home/]
- I publish - what are my rights ? [https://www.ouvrirlascience.fr/je-publie-quels-sont-mes-droits/] (in French)
- ORCID [https://orcid.org/]
- Forum on ethical issues in publication [https://publicationethics.org/]
- Article submission check list [https://celene.univ-orleans.fr/pluginfile.php/116447/course/section/30578/checklist_en.pdf?time=1679407968845]
Useful links - reviewing
- 10 tips for reviewing an article : [https://www.elsevier.com/connect/10-tips-for-reviewing-scientific-manuscripts-and-5-red-flags]
- How to review an article [https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/advice-how-to-review-a-manuscript-for-a-journal/]
Useful links - accessing articles
- Plugin to find the free version of an article if it exists (Firefox/Chrome) : [http://unpaywall.org]
- One of the best (and non-commercial) search engines is the Bielefeld Academic Search Engine. This link [https://www-base-search-net.ezproxy.univ-orleans.fr/] uses a proxy to ease download from the library at the Universit of Orléans. The main portal is [https://www.base-search.net/]
- Two (commercial) alternatives to Google Scholar : Scinapse [https://www.scinapse.io/] and Carrot2 [https://search.carrot2.org/#/search/web]
- Zotero to collect and organise citations [https://www.zotero.org/]
- Tutorial to refer to if you have questions after our Zotero sessions [https://research.library.gsu.edu/zotero]
- Tips from the Monash University Library on citing and referencing [https://guides.lib.monash.edu/citing-referencing]
Useful books
- Andrew Johnson and John Sumpter, How to be a better scientist, Routledge, 2020. (addresses all aspects of the professional life of a PhD student, with a short chapter too on scientific writing. Highly recommended) [available at the BU Sciences]
- Stephen Heard, The scientist's guide to writing : how to write more easily and effectively throughout your scientific career, Princeton University Press, 2016 [available at the BU Sciences]
- Charles-François Boudouresque, Manuel de rédaction et de communication scientifiques et techniques, Presses de l'Université de Provence, 2017
- Michel Bruneau et Catherine Potel, Présenter un rapport scientifique à l'écrit, à l'oral : conseils pratiques: l'art de la formule expliqué aux scientifiques, Cépaduès éditions, 2018 [available at the BU Sciences]
- Eric Lichtfouse, Rédiger pour être publié ! Conseils pratiques pour les scientifiques, Springer Verlag, 2012 [available at the BU Sciences]
- David Lindsay, Guide de rédaction scientifique : l'hypothèse, clé de voûte de l'article scientifique , Eyrolles, Paris, 2011 [available at the BU Sciences]
- Robert Day, How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper, Cambridge University Press, 2012
LaTeX
- Nicola L. C. Talbot, Using LaTeX to Write a PhD Thesis, [https://www.dickimaw-books.com/latex/thesis/]
- Submit your thesis at the university of Orléans (useful links, LaTeX templates) [https://www.univ-orleans.fr/fr/scd/la-recherche/deposer-sa-these]
- Repository of LaTeX templates [http://www.latextemplates.com/]
- LaTeX templates for theses in English [http://uk.tug.org/training/thesis/]. There are many on GitHub and in online repositories of collaborative editors, such as [https://www.sharelatex.com/templates/thesis/] and [https://www.overleaf.com/gallery/tagged/thesis]
- The Not so short introduction to LaTeX [https://tobi.oetiker.ch/lshort/lshort.pdf]
- The main webpage of LaTeX [https://www.latex-project.org/]
- LaTeX distribution for Macintosh (TeXshop) [https://pages.uoregon.edu/koch/texshop/]
- LaTeX distribution for Windows. There are several, see [https://www.latex-project.org/get/]
- LaTeX distribution for Linux (TeXlive) [https://www.tug.org/texlive/]
- TeXMaker editor [https://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/]
- Passport for Open Science ouverte: A pratical guide for PhD Students