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Despite a German-sounding last name, Catherine Stihler was born in Scotland. She graduated from the University of St. Andrews, where she became involved in the Scottish Labour party. A member

While new database signals ‘ongoing endeavour’, dominance of existing subscription database unlikely to be challenged any time soon

GREENVILLE, N.C. — An East Carolina University faculty member and student participated in the first-ever Marine Bioinvasions Rapid Assessment Survey (RAS) of mid-Atlantic marinas this June. Dr. April M.H. Blakeslee, associate professor of biology in the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences, and biology graduate student Carter K. Stancil, spent five days sampling floating docks in 10 busy […]

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US nominates former Mastercard chief NRI, Ajay Banga as World Bank president NRIpress.com, Feb 23, 2023 On Thursday, U.S. President Joe Biden nominated fo

Literature mapping is a way of discovering scholarly articles by exploring connections between publications. Similar articles can be linked by citations, authors, funders, keywords, and other metadata. These connections can be explored manually in a database such as Scopus or by the use of free browser-based tools such as Connected Papers, Citation Gecko, and Open Knowledge Maps. In this session, we will talk about how to use literature mapping to hack into the scholarly conversation on the topi...

Creative Commons (CC) is a global nonprofit organization working to solve the world’s most pressing problems by opening up knowledge and culture about them. Climate change, and the resulting harm to our global biodiversity, has been one of the world’s most pressing problems for decades.

Literature mapping is a way of discovering scholarly articles by exploring connections between publications. Similar articles can be linked by citations, authors, funders, keywords, and other metadata. These connections can be explored manually in a database such as Scopus or by the use of free browser-based tools such as Connected Papers, Citation Gecko, and Open Knowledge Maps. In this session, we will talk about how to use literature mapping to hack into the scholarly conversation on the topi...

Literature mapping is a way of discovering scholarly articles by exploring connections between publications. Similar articles can be linked by citations, authors, funders, keywords, and other metadata. These connections can be explored manually in a database such as Scopus or by the use of free browser-based tools such as Connected Papers, Citation Gecko, and Open Knowledge Maps. In this session, we will talk about how to use literature mapping to hack into the scholarly conversation on the topi...

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