Questions tagged [software]
Queries related to various software used in academia. Questions shall not address highly technical aspects of the software but shall address features/issues highly relevant to academia. For questions concerning computer code written or used in the context of a research project or other academic endeavour (including questions on licensing, ownership, sharing, distribution, and formatting of academic source code), use the `code` tag instead.
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What happens when software authors move from one university to another?
Suppose Dr. Smith at Stanford developed some open-source software there, and is getting paid from an NIH/NSF grant to continue doing it. But suppose he wants to move to Harvard.
While his software is ...
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Professor seeking to sell independently created software [closed]
I am a public-sector university teacher in Brazil. For the last few years, I have been independently working on teaching software, which I firmly believe has excellent commercial value in academia and ...
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Can a closed-source research software be published as a journal paper?
I have been developing a piece of software related to my PhD research. My field is bioinformatics and molecular simulation.
The reason being that my supervisor's software has been written in a ...
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Automatic citation management - am I doing it wrong?
I am currently working on my PhD thesis (evolutionary computational biology). Naturally, I have lots of citations, and I use Mendeley's automatic web importer, reference manager, and Word plugin to ...
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What aspects of software shared with a quantitative paper are the most important?
I'd like to get the software-sharing aspect of my research paper right. (This empirical paper in health economics relies on code for modelling and simulation.) Besides open-sourcing the code on GitHub,...
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Free alternative to kahoot live quizzes?
Is there any free (ideally open-source) alternative to Kahoot for making live quizzes?
I used to like Kahoot for live classroom quizzes, but recently they've changed their pricing model to only allow ...
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Tutoring Unfamiliar Material
Context: I've been tutoring in software development for the better part of this year. I've been a hobbyist and student software engineer for the last 3 years and I have decent experience in a few ...
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How would one cite images from Logos Bible Software?
I have done a word study using Logos Bible Software. I have images of how much the word 'agape' in Greek is used in the LXX and NT. How would I cite these images in Chicago Manual of Style?
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How to publicize my rewrite of another group's software, should I try to get citations for it, and how would I attribute original authors
Four years ago, another group published a paper describing a new method for estimating an important parameter in my field. The method is theoretically elegant, has good accuracy in their benchmarks, ...
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Which software can check on false references and incorrect citation on student papers?
I'm a TA at a medium-sized university in Asia, and as part of my routine, I randomly review student papers before using Turnitin for plagiarism checks. During these reviews, I've come across numerous ...
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Paid translation service for research papers [closed]
As a research/lab manager, I am looking for (paid) translation service to translate academic papers. Does anyone know of a good option? In my case I am looking for a German to English translation.
I ...
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With a software engineering bachelor's (BE), how can I work on finding a cure for cancer?
I am in my last year of studies for a bachelor's degree in software engineering and I am currently considering different options for my career path. I don't have any background in medicine, but I ...
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Entering conference outputs in Pure (Elsevier)
Many universities (including my own) use Pure (an Elsevier product for institutional research information management) to report research outputs.
My question is about entering conference outputs in ...
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Program/Process for updating calculation results in manuscripts
When writing a manuscript, my current practice is to conduct whichever calculations needed in one specific program (e.g. Python or Matlab) then copy and paste the result of the calculation into the ...
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What citation software orders Vancouver references automatically?
I know that MS Word can create numbered citations, but it doesn't include Vancouver style. I'm hesitant to try to install the Vancouver code on Word (not sure I have the skill to do that). I want to ...
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