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Tagged with databases research-process
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What if I made a mistake in a paper and now I got a minor revision?
I have received a minor revision after a major revision for a paper.
I discovered that I made a mistake in the calculations. Fixing it will result in changing a lot of the results, but the final ...
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Can I collect published images of biological specimens in a database for scientific purposes?
I'd like to create a database with published photographs of some biological species to use them for scientific research, but I have questions according copyright law.
Can I use published images in a ...
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Is there a search tool for finding primary sources in US History?
If I search a tool like JSTOR, ProQuest, or Academic Search Complete, I typically just find secondary sources. Occasionally I can find primary sources there, but only when it is part of a translation ...
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Tools for creating and managing a Data Dictionary [closed]
I'm looking for tools to create a data dictionary for my project's data. We have a large database of many variables, and I would like to create a data dictionary that describes what each variable ...
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Is it possible to get a list of everyone who graduated from a college in a given year/field?
I am interested in doing a project on graduate life-paths and need to be able to see the cohort a student graduated in in a given subject?
i.e. can I say I want a list of all the people who graduated ...
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How do you discover databases?
Is there a database or search engine where I can search for databases on a specific topic? For example, how do librarians decide which databases they will subscribe to; is there some central list?
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Creating dataset by scraping YouTube?
I'm trying to build a large dataset of images for training a machine learning model. My idea is to generate these images by grabbing frames off YouTube videos. My question: would this violate ...
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Are there any open access databases of all (or close enough) academic papers ever published? (not full-text)
Was wondering if there were any reasonably exhaustive open databases listing academic papers, with just the preliminary info, namely Title, authors, journal, etc. with or without abstract. I'm not ...
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Where to get statistics about papers mentioning specific keywords?
I am currently gathering info about the state of the art of some topic.
What I want to do is to get statistics about how often the topic was mentioned in papers in combination with other keywords in ...
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Criticism of Paper [closed]
This is my first exercise which involves reading a paper and finding shortcomings or gaps in it.
This is towards a database course for my masters degree. My paper deals with validation of xml using ...
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Good data entry and management systems [closed]
I am a PhD student and am thinking ahead to when I start up a psychology lab---what are some of the best data entry and management systems? To avoid the "it depends" answer, below I list what I'm ...
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Is there a single academic database for Management Information System /Decision Support System area?
Until now, I have been gathering literature rather primitively (I think) by regularly searching with related keywords in Google, Google Scholar, and also some of the university resources like -
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