Research
From Wayne's Dusty Box of Words
A collection of information on how to conduct research, on any topic. I mean real research, not Google and Wikipedia. Though they are fine places to start you out. Eventually, if you are doing serious research, you need to dig deeper. Let's start with how to read scientific papers.
Basic How-Tos
- How to keep a lab notebook (AAAS)
- How to (seriously) read a scientific paper (AAAS)
- How to review a paper (AAAS)
- How to get the most out of attending conferences (AAAS)
- Keeping a Bibliography
Captive Articles
Links
- Arxiv - pre-print archive for Physics, Math, Computer Science, and a smattering of other hard sciences.
- Google Research
- Nature Scientific Reports
- Open Textbook Library - A collection of mostly undergraduate level textbooks.
- ScienceDirect.com - Science, health, and medical journals, full-text articles, and books.