List: Academic Discovery | Curated by Aaron Tay

Mar 27, 2022
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3+1 Tools that can help you create a Literature review — Research Matrix of papers — Scholarcy…Years ago, as a final year undergraduate doing my undergraduate thesis, my supervisor at the time, introduced me to this popular way of…
Mar 20, 2022
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Mar 20, 2022
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Academic librarians and open access
More about open citations — Citation Gecko, Citation extraction from PDF & LOC-DBBaader-Meinhof phenomenon describes a cognitive bias where learning a new word tends to make one notice the word being used more.
Jun 5, 2018
Jun 5, 2018
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Top new tools for researchers worth looking at.Tools like Google Scholar, Zotero/Mendeley are now well known research tools.
Jul 1, 2018
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Jul 1, 2018
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Inversion : How to fail at implementing a web scale discovery serviceI’ve recently come across an idea known as inversion. We generally think in this way, “What do we do to reach goal X ?” Inversion is the…
Sep 1, 2018
Sep 1, 2018
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Cashing the cheque of open access or Machine learning and Scholarly tools — Meta, Scite, Paper…I wrote about a dozen new tools of interest if you do academic research in July, however progress never stands still so I am back to talk…
Dec 25, 2018
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Dec 25, 2018
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6 reasons why you should try Lens.orgLens is in my book one of the most interesting Scholarly discovery/ citation index tools to have emerged in 2018. I am not saying this…
Dec 27, 2018
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Dec 27, 2018
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Are Google & Web Scale Discovery services — Low Skill Cap, Low performance cap tools?Where I speculate about how the concepts of skill caps and performance caps of and the views that librarians implictly hold on tools in…
Jul 4, 2019
Jul 4, 2019
Aaron Tay
Highlighting some new visualization functions in Lens 6.2.0 — Three use cases for Lens.orgI have become quite a fan of the free Lens.org since last year , writing pieces like - 7 reasons why you should try Lens.org that talked…
Jul 8, 2019
Jul 8, 2019
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Academic related browser extensions : Browser extensions (Scite/Scholarcy)and improvements to…Exciting things are afoot in the world of academia and research workflow.
Jul 20, 2019
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Jul 20, 2019
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Using Lens.orgTL;DR — This articles shows you a reliable search strategy that you can use in Lens.org to find meta-analysis, systematic reviews, review…
Feb 29, 2020
Feb 29, 2020
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More cutting edge — Research tools for researchers— Feb 2020It’s a new year, and here are more research tools to keep your eye out on. Most of the items are the list are either brand new, or have…
Mar 8, 2020
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Mar 8, 2020
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Finding reviews on any topic using Lens.org and 2d search — a new efficient methodTL;DR — This article shows you a reliable search strategy that you can use in Lens.org to find meta-analysis, systematic reviews, review…
May 3, 2020
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May 3, 2020
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Why openly available abstracts are important — overview of the current state of affairsAuthors: Bianca Kramer (Utrecht University Library), Aaron Tay (SMU Libraries, Singapore Management University), Ludo Waltman (Centre for…
Jun 29, 2020
Jun 29, 2020
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4 Ways to find review papers, systematic reviews, meta-analysis, and other rich sources of…Starting your research in a totally new area and unsure where to start? 4 techniques to find review articles that might be new to you.
Jul 6, 2020
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Jul 6, 2020
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The next generation discovery citation indexes — a review of the landscape a 2020 (I)Everyone knows of the big 3 citation indexes — Web of Science Scopus & Google Scholar, but how do they compare to the new ones?
Oct 7, 2020
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Oct 7, 2020
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More cutting edge — Research tools for researchers — Oct 2020 by Aaron TayIt’s 2020 and we are settling down into snd getting used to life where COVID is the norm. What new research tools have emerged that are…
Oct 19, 2020
Oct 19, 2020
Aaron Tay
3 new tools to try for Literature mapping — Connected Papers, Inciteful and LitmapsTired of entering keywords and getting thousands of hits ? Try these cutting edge new literature mapping tools that have emerged recently
Apr 15, 2021
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Apr 15, 2021
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ResearchRabbit is out of beta- my review of this new literature mapping toolHow it works and how it stacks up against Connected Papers and other similar tools.
Aug 15, 2021
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Aug 15, 2021
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