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General guides

	Creating a simple and effective academic personal websiteCreating an academic website goes hand-in-hand with creating your CV and presenting who you are to your academic and professional peers. This guide helps you to take that next step and informs you on how to easily create an effective academic personal website.
	The value and how-tos of blogging and microblogging for disseminating your researchBlogs and microblogs (e.g. Twitter) are vital tools for academics to publicly communicate about research developments and findings, to announce publications and share presentations and to write about relevant research issues. This guide provides some tips on how to get started, and how to blog effectively.
	Preparing a paperPreparing a manuscript is a time-intensive activity: organizing the technical content, preparing graphs and tables, writing, proofreading, and correcting syntax and grammar. Wordiness is a major impediment to communication: this document advocates writing concisely. We identify best practices for preparing graphs and tables. Together with guidelines for the usage of significant figures, we tabulate typical errors and expressions. Write your paper well so that reviewers concentrate on the content.
	Elements of Style for Writing Scientific Journal Articles Once you have your basic structure outlined, you might need some help in terms of style. This guide focuses on styles and practices that will help to transfer scientific information, ideas, and understanding from the author to reader effectively.
	Get found. Optimize your research articles for search engines Search engine optimization (SEO) of your journal articles is as important for you to do to market your research as it is for a company to market a retail product. Learn the tips on how to optimize your articles for search engines.
	Get noticed. Disseminate your research better This guide provides useful tips on using the many powerful online and traditional tools of research dissemination to communicate your research to your academic peers. Build your research profile online and offline to increase your visibility in the field.
	Writing an effective Academic CV A CV allows you to showcase yourself and your academic and professional achievements in a concise way. You want to have a compelling CV that is well-organized and easy to read, yet accurately represents your highest accomplishments. Click on the image to learn more.
	Peer Review - The Nuts and Bolts If you would like to become a reviewer, here is the guide which will help you to understand how peer review process works, some of the limitations of peer review and the role of peer review in the society.
	Understanding the Publishing Process in Elsevier Journals Are you just starting your research publishing career? Here's a few quick tips and tricks to make it even easier to get your manuscript published.
	Options to publish open access Elsevier offers open access options in more than 1,600 of our high-quality journals and has established agreements with funding bodies and institutions. Publishing open access means your article will be made freely available, immediately and permanently on ScienceDirect for those with or without a journal subscription.
	Writing papers for publication This module is designed to maximize the success of publication for Early Career Researchers writing academic papers. It is developed in collaboration with the University of Bath, University of Bristol and the University of Exeter.

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General guides

	Creating a simple and effective academic personal websiteCreating an academic website goes hand-in-hand with creating your CV and presenting who you are to your academic and professional peers. This guide helps you to take that next step and informs you on how to easily create an effective academic personal website.
	The value and how-tos of blogging and microblogging for disseminating your researchBlogs and microblogs (e.g. Twitter) are vital tools for academics to publicly communicate about research developments and findings, to announce publications and share presentations and to write about relevant research issues. This guide provides some tips on how to get started, and how to blog effectively.
	Preparing a paperPreparing a manuscript is a time-intensive activity: organizing the technical content, preparing graphs and tables, writing, proofreading, and correcting syntax and grammar. Wordiness is a major impediment to communication: this document advocates writing concisely. We identify best practices for preparing graphs and tables. Together with guidelines for the usage of significant figures, we tabulate typical errors and expressions. Write your paper well so that reviewers concentrate on the content.
	Elements of Style for Writing Scientific Journal Articles Once you have your basic structure outlined, you might need some help in terms of style. This guide focuses on styles and practices that will help to transfer scientific information, ideas, and understanding from the author to reader effectively.
	Get found. Optimize your research articles for search engines Search engine optimization (SEO) of your journal articles is as important for you to do to market your research as it is for a company to market a retail product. Learn the tips on how to optimize your articles for search engines.
	Get noticed. Disseminate your research better This guide provides useful tips on using the many powerful online and traditional tools of research dissemination to communicate your research to your academic peers. Build your research profile online and offline to increase your visibility in the field.
	Writing an effective Academic CV A CV allows you to showcase yourself and your academic and professional achievements in a concise way. You want to have a compelling CV that is well-organized and easy to read, yet accurately represents your highest accomplishments. Click on the image to learn more.
	Peer Review - The Nuts and Bolts If you would like to become a reviewer, here is the guide which will help you to understand how peer review process works, some of the limitations of peer review and the role of peer review in the society.
	Understanding the Publishing Process in Elsevier Journals Are you just starting your research publishing career? Here's a few quick tips and tricks to make it even easier to get your manuscript published.
	Options to publish open access Elsevier offers open access options in more than 1,600 of our high-quality journals and has established agreements with funding bodies and institutions. Publishing open access means your article will be made freely available, immediately and permanently on ScienceDirect for those with or without a journal subscription.
	Writing papers for publication This module is designed to maximize the success of publication for Early Career Researchers writing academic papers. It is developed in collaboration with the University of Bath, University of Bristol and the University of Exeter.

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Guides and recommended reading | Elsevier