Day: January 4, 2024

Soulflight: Reflecting Light and Life

Soulflight is an intimate look into diverse landscapes, cultures, and experiences from around the globe, metaphorically woven with narratives of deeper meaning. It combines stunning visuals with engaging prose, offering readers a passage to some of the most beautiful and culturally rich places on Earth. More than just a travelogue, it’s a personal account of the author’s transformation as a traveller and a human being, reflecting on the internal changes sparked by these journeys.
Presented in a coffee table format, the book invites casual browsing, inspiring readers to embark on their own explorations. It’s a testament to the belief that travel is more than just visiting new places; it’s about gaining new insights and perspectives on life.
Here is an excerpt from Soulflight:
“As I walk down memory lane, in a nostalgic search of silence, moments from the past and present unfold before my eyes. They are caught through my lenses and get frozen in time. The silence captures my memorable conversations with mountains, trees, stones and all living creatures.
Their stories are etched in light and shadow. Each page of this book remains a living witness, a slice of life and time, a timeless tale of a Traveller caged in an urban context at times and freed under an open sky during others.”
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Woodpecker Publications (December 8, 2022)
Author: Soumitra Bhattacharya
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 148 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 939515506X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9395155069
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 8 – 18 years
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 0.35 x 8.5 inches

"The Importance of Daily Exercise for a Healthier Life"

By: Ayeaj Hossain
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Title of Article “The Importance of Daily Exercise for a Healthier Life”
Article Content In today’s fast-paced world, maintaining a healthy lifestyle often takes a backseat amid busy schedules and demanding routines. However, daily exercise into our lives is crucial for overall well-being. It doesn’t have to be a daunting task; even small, consistent efforts can yield significant benefits. Regular physical activity offers a multitude of advantages, both physically and mentally. First and foremost, it boosts our physical health. Engaging in activities like walking, jogging, or cycling enhances cardiovascular health by improving blood circulation and reducing the risk of heart disease. Additionally, it aids in weight management by burning calories and building muscle mass, contributing to a healthier body composition. Moreover, exercise isn’t just about physical fitness; it greatly impacts mental health too. When we exercise, our body releases endorphins, often referred to as ‘feel-good hormones.’ These endorphins act as natural mood elevators, reducing stress, anxiety, and symptoms of depression. Regular exercise can enhance cognitive function, sharpen memory, and improve overall mental clarity, leading to a more balanced and positive mindset.

Benefits of using Google Scholar

 Google Scholar is a freely accessible search engine that indexes scholarly articles, theses, books, conference papers, and patents. It provides a valuable resource for researchers, academics, and students seeking scholarly information across various disciplines. While Google Scholar itself doesn’t directly offer backlinks, there are several benefits associated with using Google Scholar that indirectly contribute to the visibility and credibility of academic work.

  1. High-Quality Academic Content:
    Google Scholar focuses on indexing scholarly content, ensuring that the information retrieved is from reputable and peer-reviewed sources. This emphasis on quality makes it a reliable platform for accessing academic literature.

  2. Increased Visibility:
    Researchers and academics benefit from increased visibility when their work is indexed on Google Scholar. This can lead to broader exposure, as other researchers, students, and professionals discover and cite their work. The more citations a paper receives, the higher its visibility in search results.

  3. Academic Reputation and Recognition:
    Being indexed on Google Scholar adds to the academic reputation of researchers and institutions. It serves as a digital repository for academic achievements, making it easier for peers and collaborators to find and reference their work.

  4. Citation Tracking:
    Google Scholar allows authors to track citations of their work, providing insights into the impact and influence of their research. This feature is valuable for researchers looking to gauge the reception and relevance of their scholarly contributions.

  5. Research Collaboration:
    The platform facilitates collaboration by connecting researchers with similar interests. Authors can find potential collaborators by exploring related research, which can lead to joint projects, publications, and a broader academic network.

  6. Google Scholar Profile:
    Researchers can create a Google Scholar profile to showcase their academic output, including publications and citation metrics. This profile can serve as a comprehensive and up-to-date portfolio of their scholarly contributions.

  7. Backlinks from External Platforms:
    While Google Scholar itself doesn’t provide backlinks, the visibility gained through citations and references on Google Scholar can lead to backlinks from external platforms. Other researchers, educators, or institutions may link to relevant papers on their websites, creating a network of backlinks that enhance the online presence of academic work.

  8. Integration with Institutional Repositories:
    Many academic institutions integrate their repositories with Google Scholar, ensuring that the work of their researchers is easily discoverable. This integration can indirectly contribute to backlinks when institutions link to their researchers’ profiles or specific publications.

In conclusion, Google Scholar offers numerous benefits for academics, including increased visibility, academic recognition, and the potential for indirect backlinks from external sources. Researchers and institutions can leverage these advantages to enhance their online presence and contribute to the dissemination of high-quality scholarly content.

Searching and Reading the Research Papers without Paying

Traditionally, scientific research has been tucked away behind paywalls of academic publishers. Not only is the access to papers often restricted, but subscriptions are required to use many scholarly search engines. This practice discriminates against universities and institutions with little funding who cannot afford the licenses. Closed publishing also makes it hard for people not affiliated with research institutes, such as the public, to learn about scientific discoveries.

Today, the proportion of research that is publicly accessible, at no cost, varies between disciplines. While in the biomedical sciences and mathematics, the majority of research published between 2009 and 2015 was openly accessible, this held true only for around 15 percent of publications in chemistry. Luckily, the interest in open access publishing is steadily increasing and has gained momentum in the past decade or so.

Nowadays, many governmental funding bodies around the world require science resulting from grant money they provided to be available publicly for free. The exact requirements vary and UNESCO is currently developing a framework that specifies standards for the whole area of open science.

Once I started my research on the topic, I was astonished by just how many open science tools already exist! I selected the 10 best tools for you that help you discover relevant literature, allow you to read it and save citations:

SCIENCEOPEN

Want to perform a literature search and don’t want to pay for Web of Science or Scopus or perhaps you are tired of the limited functionality of the free Google Scholar? ScienceOpen is many things, among others, a search platform for scientific articles. Despite being owned by a company, the platform is freely accessible with a visually appealing and functional design. Search results are clearly labelled by type of publication, number of citations, altmetrics scores, etc. and allow for filtering. You can also access citation metrics, i.e. display which publications have cited a certain paper.


READ BY QXMD

Available as an app or in a browser window, Read lets you create a personalised feed that is updated daily with new papers on research topics or from journals of your choice. If there is an openly accessible version of an article, you can read it with one click. If your institution has journal subscriptions, you can also link them to your Read profile. Read has been created by the company QxMD and is free to use.

CITATION GECKO

Citation Gecko is an open source web app developed by Barney Walker that can help you with your literature review. It works in the following way: First you upload about 5-6 “seed papers”. The program then extracts all references in and to the seed papers and creates a visual citation network. The nodes are displayed in different colours and sizes, depending on whether the papers are citing a seed paper or are cited by it and how many, respectively. By combing through the network, you can discover new papers that may be relevant for your literature search. You can also increase your network step by step by including more seed papers.
The underlying citation data that Citation Gecko uses is provided by Crossref and Open Citations.

LOCAL CITATION NETWORK

Similar to Citation Gecko, Local Citation Network is an open source tool that helps you discover new literature on your research topic. Local Citation Network was developed by Physician Scientist Tim Wölfle. The tool works best if you feed it with a larger library of seed papers than required for Citation Gecko. Therefore, Wölfle recommends using it at the end of the literature review process to identify papers you may have missed.

RESEARCHRABBIT

As an alternative to Citation Gecko and Local Citation Network, a reader recommended ResearchRabbit. It’s free to use and looks like a versatile piece of software to find literature by building your own citation network. ResearchRabbit lets you add labels to the entries in your network, download PDFs of papers and sign up for email alerts for new papers related to your research topic. Instead of a tool to use only once during your literature search, ResearchRabbit seems to work more like a private scientific library, storing (and connecting) all the papers in your field.

OPEN ACCESS BUTTON

Works like Sci-hub but is legal: You enter the DOI, link or citation of a paper and Open Access Button displays it if freely, accessible anywhere. To find an open access version, Open Access Button searches thousands of repositories, for example, preprint servers, authors’ personal pages, open access journals and other aggregators such as the COnnecting REpositories service based at The Open University in the UK (CORE), the EU-funded OpenAire infrastructure, and the US community initiative, Share.

If the article you are looking for isn’t freely available, Open Access Button asks the author to share it to a repository. You can enter your email address to be notified once it has become available.

Open Access Button is also available as a browser plugin, which means that a button appears next to an article when a free version is available. The tool is funded by non-profit foundations and is open source.

UNPAYWALL

Unpaywall is similar to the Open Access Button but only available as a browser plugin. If the article you are looking at is behind a paywall but freely accessible somewhere else, a green button appears on the right side of the article. Unpaywall is run by the non-profit organisation Our Research who has created a fleet of open science tools. I installed it recently and regret not having done it sooner, it works really smoothly!

ENDNOTE CLICK

Another browser extension that lets you access papers for free, if available, is EndNote Click (formerly Kopernio). As the reference manager, EndNote Click is part of the research analytics company, Clarivate.

EndNote Click claims to be faster than other plugins, bypassing redirects and verification steps. I don’t find the Unpaywall or Open Access Button plugins inconvenient to use but I’d encourage you to try them all out and see what works best for you.

One advantage of EndNote Click that a researcher told me about is the sidebar that appears when opening a paper through the plugin. It lets you, for example, save citations quickly, avoiding time-consuming searches on publishers’ websites.

CITEAS

You discovered a promising paper, read it and now you want to cite it? CiteAs is a convenient tool to obtain the correct citation for any publication, preprint, software or dataset in one click. Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, CiteAs is operated partly by the non-profit, Our Research.

There you have it. 10 Open Science tools that help with your literature search!

By the way, my interactive training video, “How to get published in high-ranking journals without lacking structure in the writing process” is now available for you for free! You can schedule your private viewing session here.

If you are looking to develop a more formulaic approach to writing papers that will mean less procrastination and higher quality outputs in better journals, then this free writing training is the ideal next step for you!

INDIAN EDUCATION SYSTEM

By: Vansh Aggarwal
About author: I’m a first-year B.Tech CSE student at Amity University, Mohali. Coding is my passion, and I enjoy listening to music. In 12th grade, I scored 91%.
Title of Article INDIAN EDUCATION SYSTEM
Article Content THE challenges faced by the educational system in develop ing countries like India are intimidating. Most parents spend a substan tial amount of their income to help their children to lead a quality life. Unfortunately their enthusiasm for education is not enough to overcome the barri es to progress posed by inac- säility and poor infrastruc fre Children are restricted from going to schools, there’s inconsistent teaching quality, little individualised learning and a poor emphasis on con ceptual mastery. ConveGenius was founded with the long-term objective of digitising education to solve for issues of accessibility of high-quality educational con- tent through its innovations in the fields of educational peda gogy artificial intelligence and cognition processes It is a platform that provides a self learning experience by pre senting quality content mapped to the NCERT curricu lum in the form of levels or stages of a game. It is support ed with real-time data to effec tively measure and improve learning levels, make learning fun, engaging and more mean ingful for a child Born in the twenty-first century, today’s kids have intuitive fluency in the digital language of computers, video games. and Intemet. The CG Slate leverages this immense oppor tunity to create meaningful learning experiences for the child. Through this platform and pre- sentation of interactive content accompanied by game dynam- ics of incentivisation, rules experiences-achievements approach of a game, we bring back the ‘play’ to learning Moreover, the CG Slate is a child-centric product enabling personalisation of learning In order to address different learning needs of each child. CG Slate is adaptive and its rec ommendation engine uses data of the child’s performance and choices to create an individualised leaming paths