By Catherine Gonzalez|2023-03-07T14:31:32+01:0007.03.2023|
LaTeX: Allowing you to focus on content, not appearance. Logo taken from: www.latex-project.org What is it? LaTeX is a software system used to prepare documents from smaller documents such as resumes and articles to large documents such as books. LaTeX is not the same as Microsoft Word! [...]
By Catherine Gonzalez|2023-02-10T20:24:09+01:0003.02.2023|
Want to stand out? Use ORCiD Logo taken from: www.ORCID.org What is it? A non-profit organization which aims to connect researchers to their research. While improving transparency and facilitating trust between researchers in the scientific community. ORCID is an acronym representing Open Researcher and Contributor ID Free [...]
By Catherine Gonzalez|2023-02-09T16:32:08+01:0013.01.2023|
Advanced Security Measures (#13) Digitization, standardization, and the electronic exchange of research data are all very effective in improving research practices. However, this also makes it easier for systems to be breached from any one of the many access points. Here we will discuss a key method to safe guard your data from [...]
By Lukas C. Bossert|2021-08-09T14:34:24+02:0009.08.2021|
Data Management Plan (DMP) In newsletter No.5 "What we have accomplished so far" I already raised the topic *Data Management Plan*. In this newsletter you find more explicit information about the central document to document your research data workflow. The DMP is a way to document and maintain all the necessary [...]
By Lukas C. Bossert|2021-03-12T14:16:06+01:0005.03.2021|
How you can publish your data After we have discussed data organization we will go a step further now and look at an efficient way to *publish* data. You remember our little research project "CABS", we were looking at its data in the last newsletter? The researches have finished the study and [...]
By Lukas C. Bossert|2021-03-04T20:57:06+01:0025.01.2021|
How you can structure your data sheets After having talked about how to structure your data files in a recent newsletter edition we take a closer look at data sheets themselves. In this newsletter you will learn how to structure your data to help others to understand your data (and therefore your project, [...]
By Lukas C. Bossert|2021-03-04T20:59:07+01:0016.10.2020|
How we can share, backup and access our research data at any time. Storing research data can be a difficult task, since the server-based drives of the UKA-network are chronically full, one should not use any external harddrive and that all makes it difficult to exchange any data with members of your project. [...]
By Lukas C. Bossert|2021-03-04T21:01:26+01:0004.09.2020|
How to manage your publication data and references "In which journal did someone write about ... again?"; "Have I read this paper, yet?" "How do I insert a publication reference into my document?"; "What kind of citation style is required for the journal I want to publish in?" These questions are very [...]
By Lukas C. Bossert|2021-03-04T21:01:52+01:0013.07.2020|
NFDI. What is it all about? NFDI (Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur) is a program funded by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) to establish systematically a way to provide long-term data storage, backup and accessibility. It is divided into various research community driven approaches. In this newsletter you will learn about projects within the life sciences [...]
By Lukas C. Bossert|2021-03-04T21:02:19+01:0005.06.2020|
How you can remember all your passwords How many of your accounts have the same password? How many times have you clicked on "I forgot my password"? How many passwords and accounts are in your "my-password-file.xlsx"? If your answers to these questions is "1" (or more than 1) then the topic [...]
