Category: Tips&Tricks
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The 2020 vision of you
How to stand out with a Mendeley profile Making sure that potential collaborators, funders, employers and institutional leaders can find and see the real you is key to a successful research career. With a Mendeley profile you can easily present a highly visible and accurate picture of who you are as a researcher. This includes…
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Would you like to become a certified peer reviewer?
The process of peer reviewing is associated with certain challenges. Editors often struggle with finding reviewers for their next articles. Reviewers want to demonstrate their expertise but have no way of getting noticed. It happens that reviewers decline requests due to lack of familiarity with the subject matter, or because they think they are…
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Wellcome Trust Grant Funding: Applying for Investigator Awards
The Wellcome Trust is an independent, global charitable organisation that funds research in medical and health-related fields. The majority of grant funding (43%) is allocated to personal awards for investigators, fellowships and PhD studentships, with the remainder going towards supporting a number of Wellcome Trust Institutes and team research.
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Insights into the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) grant research funding
Looking for NASA Research Funding? Try Mendeley Funding! by Seema Sharma The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was founded in 1958, to help accelerate the existing efforts for aerospace research and development in the United States. Now in its 60th anniversary year, NASA offers a wide range of funding opportunities to researchers in…
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Scientific research is hard …so you have to enjoy it!
Today we’re talking to Tim Donohoe, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford and Editor of Tetrahedron Letters. What are your research interests/describe a typical working day “I research organic chemistry in the broadest sense, but am particularly interested in total synthesis and catalysis.” Tim leads a research team of 16-20 people, a mixture…
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