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What Makes A Paper Useful?

By Andrew Farke
Posted: November 29, 2012

Category: Nuts and Bolts, Open Access | Tagged literature, navel gazing, open access, writing | 2 Comments

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About The Integrative Paleontologists

Our blog covers the latest paleontological research, with special attention to issues concerning open science, publishing, and fossils in the digital realm.

Andy Farke is a vertebrate paleontologist at the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology. Follow him on Twitter: @andyfarke

Shaena Montanari is a newly minted Ph.D. from the Comparative Biology program at the Richard Gilder Graduate School at the American Museum of Natural History. Follow her on Twitter: @DrShaena

Sarah Werning recently earned her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, and is now an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stony Brook University. Follow her on Twitter: @sarahwerning

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