Getting published – how the Library can help

Anne Costigan

Library

Selecting a journal

• Journal scope or coverage

• Quality

• Peer review

• Open access

• Style and format

• Speed of publication

• Publication charges

• Discoverability

Journal scope

• Advice from supervisors

• What do you read?

• Editorial Board – do you know anyone?

• Automatic tools

– JANE (biomedical)

• http://jane.biosemantics.org/suggestions.php

– Elsevier Journal Finder (Elsevier only)

• http://journalfinder.elsevier.com/

Journal quality

• Impact factors

– Journal Citation Reports

• Access via Summon

• http://www.bradford.ac.uk/library/

– Look at the category and check the rank of the journal you are interested in

– Is there a ‘minimum impact factor’ in your area?

Other journal metrics

• Google Scholar Citations

– https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=top_venues

• Scimago

– http://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php

• CiteScore (new)

– https://journalmetrics.scopus.com/

Trusted journals

• Predatory journals - where not to publish

– Beall’s list

• Journals https://scholarlyoa.com/individual-journals/

• Publishers https://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/

• http://thinkchecksubmit.org/

Discoverability

• How easy is it to find the article?

• Is the journal included by the major databases in your area? For example

– Scifinder (chemistry)

– Proquest (management)

– Medline (medical)

• This is also an indicator of quality

Open access

• To be eligible for the REF your paper must be added to the Bradford Scholars repository– Almost all journals permit this

– Check in SHERPA/ROMEO• http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/index.php

– Contact openaccess@bradford.ac.uk when considering submission

• HEFCE/RCUK both require papers to be added to the Bradford Scholars repository– You do NOT have to publish in an open access journal

Peer review

• What is peer review?– Primary research articles checked by experts

– Also some review articles and conference papers

– http://stke.sciencemag.org/content/9/453/ra109.article-info

• Blinded – Reviewer/s or editor may or may not know authors’

names

• Open– You know the reviewer, they know you

Style and format

• Check the journal’s instructions, for example

– http://stke.sciencemag.org/about/ifora

• Look at the referencing style

– EndNote

• Proofread

• ORCID

– http://orcid.org/

– Researcher identifier – submit with your paper

Book publishing

• Importance of the publisher

– Academic publishers

– University presses

• Many predatory publishers in book publication also

• Quality of peer review/editing

• What is appropriate for your field/career?

• Few academic books make much money!

Time

• Plan early – it will take longer than you think• Allow for

– Writing– Rewriting– Review by colleagues– Submission– Peer review– Revision– Publication

• Usually published electronically before print• Multiply all timings for a book!

Publication charges

• Open access charges

– Funding for RCUK funded research

– Vouchers and discounts from publishers

• Contact openaccess@bradford.ac.uk

• Other charges

– Pages

– Images/ colour

– Data

What is plagiarism?

• IEEE – ‘the reuse of someone else's prior processes, results, or words without explicitly acknowledging the original author and source’ (IEEE 2016)

Plagiarism detection

• Your paper is likely to be put through a plagiarism checker– CrossCheck or iThenticate

– Elsevier on plagiarism• https://www.elsevier.com/editors/perk/plagiarism-

complaints/plagiarism-detection

• https://www.publishingcampus.elsevier.com/pages/63/ethics/Publishing-ethics.html

• Plagiarism and copyright are separate– You will usually sign over copyright to a journal

publisher

Avoiding plagiarism

• Ensure you cite and reference correctly in the appropriate style for your publication– EndNote may be able to help

• Ensure any direct quotations are clearly marked and correctly cited

• Plagiarism checkers– Do NOT use any ‘free’ plagiarism checkers– Your paper may be added to their database and sold

as an essay

• Authors– Make each author’s contribution clear

Other plagiarism problems

• Self-plagiarism– This is also a problem!

– Duplicate publication

• ‘Salami slicing’

• For more information– http://www.imperial.ac.uk/admin-

services/library/research-support/plagiarism-awareness-for-researchers/plagiarism-detection-by-publishers/

After publication

• Blogging and social media– Altmetrics important to journals now– http://stke.sciencemag.org/content/9/453/ra109.article-info

• Comments (or post-publication peer review)• Citations

– Citation alerts• Web of Science• Scopus• Google Scholar

• Retraction Watch– http://retractionwatch.com/– I’m sure this will never happen to you!

Credits and references

• Background: Pages from John White’s First Fleet journal

– https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pages_from_John_White's_First_Fleet_journal_A2089482h.jpg

• IEEE (2016) A Plagiarism FAQ. IEEE. https://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/rights/plagiarism_FAQ.htmlAccessed 15 December 2016.