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Getting Published

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Post Graduate Research Programme

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Overview

• Dr Giles Young : the experience of a researcher in physical geography

• Michele Davies & Clare Boucher (ISS subject librarians) – Useful tools for finding the right journal to publish in; Open Access vs. traditional publishing routes.

• Caroline Rauter (ISS Document Supply ) – Copyright: making sure the content of your thesis or your published article/book is legal

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Where to publish?

• Research journal (also known as refereed or peer-reviewed journals)

• Conference paper• Poster• Academic monograph• Professional / non-refereed journal• Popular press• Blog / Facebook / Twitter

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Choosing a journal

• Recommendations from your supervisor & fellow researchers

• Knowledge of journals in your field• Which journals does your research cite?• Special issues – themed• Look out for opportunities for “early career

researchers” such as this one from Westburn

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Before submitting• Read the submission guidelines

http://www.springer.com/authors?SGWID=0-111-0-0-0

• Scope & audience of the journal• What type of articles do they publish?• Back issues: style & current debates• Send an abstract to the editor• Impact Factors: don’t aim too high at first?• Get feedback from friends & colleagues first• Be resilient – rejections are common

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Journal Impact Factors• What are they?

- a measure reflecting the average number of citations to articles published in science & social science journals

• Must be compared only within defined subject categories

• How do I find them?- Journal Citation Reports- part of the Web of Knowledge service

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Scimago Journal Rankings

• What is this?– An alternative for method of ranking journals

based upon citations, but which weights citations based upon the prestige & subject area of the journals where these citations are made.

– SJRs use data from the SCOPUS database.You can find SJRs on the Scimago website or via the

Scopus database.

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Open Access Publishing

• Available online & free of charge to all readers

• Users of OA articles should have the right to “... read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of these articles...“ (Budapest Open Access Initiative, 2002)

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How does Open Access work?

The “Gold” Route The “Green” Route

Immediate open accessUp front payments by author/ institutions/funders.•Sponsored (free to publish)• Publication fee for author• Hybrid = Subscription journals with optional OA fee for individual articles

Delayed open access

Self-archiving of pre-/post-prints in an open access repository – subject/institutional

Freely available from the publisher’s site after an embargo period.

TRADITIONAL MODEL: JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTIONS – READERS PAY FOR ACCESS

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Why should I be interested in OA

• More accessible – not hidden behind a pay-wall

• Potentially more people will read it• Potentially more citations• Potentially greater impact • RCUK OA Policy is going to shake things up in

journal publishing.

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Going for gold....

OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS• Biomed Central• PLOS One• Journal of Orthopaedic

Surgery and Research• Springer Open / Springe

r Open Choice• Wiley Blackwell – Open

Access & Online Open

Which journal: Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

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It’s not easy being Green.... *

• RIS & Cronfa• Can you self-archive an

article you’ve already published?

• Can you demand self-archiving rights?

* But hopefully will be soon!