Chemistry Scholarship opening for applications until Oct 31st, 2024.
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- Material Type:
- Student Guide
- Author:
- Becky Davis
- Date Added:
- 07/01/2024
Chemistry Scholarship opening for applications until Oct 31st, 2024.
This freshman course explores the scientific publication cycle, primary vs. secondary sources, and online and in-print bibliographic databases; how to search, find, evaluate, and cite information; indexing and abstracting; using special resources (e.g. patents) and “grey literature” (e.g. technical reports and conference proceedings); conducting Web searches; and constructing literature reviews.
Some tips about obtaining an educational scholarship
This seminar is for students who plan to write a senior thesis in Political Science, and is required of all MIT Political Science majors. Seminar participants will develop their research topics, review relevant research and scholarship, frame their research questions and arguments, choose an appropriate methodology for analysis, draft the introductory and methodology sections of their theses, and write a complete prospectus of the project.
“What’s the difference between ResearchGate, Academia.edu, and the institutional repository?”
“I put my papers in ResearchGate, is that enough for the open access policy?
These and similar questions have been common at open access events over the past couple of years. Authors want to better understand the differences between these platforms and when they should use one, the other, or some combination.
This blog post is a primer on understanding the differences between academic social networking sites and institutional repositories (IRs).