NSF unveils plan to make scientific papers free

NSF Implementation Plan for Interagency Interim NREN

This document outlines an architecture and implementation plan for the National Science Foundation's Interagency Interim National Research and Education Network (NREN) component of the HPCC Program. The Interagency Interim NREN is intended as a near term research and development program to extend the capabilities and breadth of connectiv-ity of today's research and education (R&E) networks. Thi...

NSF Workshop on Challenges of Scientific Workflows

Prior to the workshop, the attendees were asked to submit a one-page research statement describing current work (including citations and web pointers) and outlining future topics of research in scientific workflows. This document is a compilation of those statements, grouped according to the four planned discussion topics for the workshop. 1) Applications and requirements: What are the requirem...

How to Write and Publish Scientific Papers

A Guide to Writing Scientific Papers

The abstract section in a scientific paper is a concise, self-explanatory digest of the content of the paper. The abstract should present, in about 250 words, the purpose of the paper, basic protocol, summarized results, and the major conclusions. Detailed background information, analysis, and descriptions are excluded, as are tables, figures and (typically) citations. WRITER'S TIP: Write your ...

Learning to Generate Posters of Scientific Papers

Researchers summarize and represent their paper content with scientific posters, which efficiently convey their ideas. Generating a good scientific poster, however, is challenging for novel researchers, since it needs to be readable, informative, and aesthetic. This paper for the first time studies the challenging problem of learning to generate posters from scientific papers. To this end, a da...