Author Archives: David Watson
Interpreting scientific abstracts
Huffington Post has a short and interesting post by Nature editor Noah Gray on the art and benefits of deciphering scientific abstracts.
…with the ability to regularly recognize key scientific components from an abstract, the savvy reader will be in a position to better-police that other omnipresent science information filter, the one that sometimes operates with mixed efficiency: mainstream media.
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Multi-language Speech Transcription/Annotation
Not to be confused with the Transcribers – Northampton service, Vanceinfo are looking for multi-language transcribers Read the rest of this entry
Administrative Data Liaison Service
News on data sharing and consent practices:
Across the UK, there is much interest in linking social science studies and surveys to respondents’ routine administrative records, which are generally held by government departments. Such linkage improves the power and utility of research data by including new information that may not be easily obtained and reduces the costs, time and resources necessary to collect such additional data using traditional methods. Typically, consent requests are made to link to a person’s health, education and economic routine records.
The ADLS has recently reviewed the existing consent practices used by some of the major social science studies and surveys in the UK. Read the rest of this entry
A researcher’s view of Open Access
From the University of Northampton YouTube channel: Dr (now Professor) Jeff Ollerton discusses the importance of Open Access publishing.
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