Almost all researchers at HKUST have ORCID iD. Do you have yours? ORCID is an example of researcher identifiers, which is one out of three types of persistent identifiers (PID). What are all these identifiers? Why should researchers care?

Finding an open access (OA) version of an journal article may only need one-click with the help of these free browser plug-ins: Unpaywall and Open Access Button. 

From a draft to a published journal paper, your work transforms through different versions. Understanding the terminology in this publishing process has become necessary for effective communication in the scholar community.

Increasingly, researchers are expected to actively manage their research data throughout the life-cycle of scholarly interest. Learning research data management best practices has become essential, especially for early career researchers.

“In general, we observe that it is better to publish in Open Access venues to optimise citation and Altmetric attention. Both measures are improved by being funded and collaborating internationally.”1