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Measuring your Impact
- Measuring your ImpactUA Libraries Resources
- Medline Indexed JournalsJournals indexed in Medline
- ORCID @UAORCID iDs are unique identifiers assigned to individual scholars and researchers. Using an ORCID allows your manuscripts, grants, and other scholarship to be more discoverable and integrated within larger research networks.
- Research Impact ChallengeGuide to improve research impact by Indiana University Ruth Lilly Medical Library
Journal Impact Factors
- Scopus Sources
Find Journal Impact Factors - NLM Catalog Journals
NLM Catalog: Journals referenced in the NCBI Databases. Select Indexed in Medline to see indexed journals in PubMed.
Where to Publish?
- Journal Author Name Estimator (JANE)Have you recently written a paper, but you're not sure to which journal you should submit it? Or maybe you want to find relevant articles to cite in your paper? Or are you an editor, and do you need to find reviewers for a particular paper? Jane can help!
- Think Check SubmitThink. Check. Submit. helps researchers identify trusted journals for their research.
Through a range of tools and practical resources, this international, cross-sector initiative aims to educate researchers, promote integrity, and build trust in credible research and publications. - The Problem of Predatory Journals (AAMC)The number of illegitimate journals is exploding — and they could hurt your career. Here’s how to avoid falling prey.
- UCSF Getting Published GuideA guide to manuscript publication from the University of San Francisco Scholarly Publishing Librarian Terri Gotschall.
Copyright
As an author, you are also a copyright holder! It's important for you to know what rights you control for your work, and consider what rights publishers might need before signing any publishing agreements. Many publishing agreements require a complete transfer of copyright from you to the publisher, which means that you no longer have the ability to use your own work without permission.
- Sherpa RomeoSherpa Romeo is an online resource that aggregates and analyses publisher open access policies from around the world and provides summaries of publisher copyright and open access archiving policies on a journal-by-journal basis.
- SPARC Author RightsSPARC provides a full set of resources to help you learn more about your rights as an author, and the tools that are available to help you effectively manage your copyrights.
- Creative CommonsCreative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools. The free, easy-to-use copyright licenses provide a simple, standardized way to give the public permission to share and use your creative work — on conditions of your choice. CC licenses let you easily change your copyright terms from the default of “all rights reserved” to “some rights reserved.” Creative Commons licenses are not an alternative to copyright. They work alongside copyright and enable you to modify your copyright terms to best suit your needs.
- UA Open Access Policy
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Books on Open Access
Understanding Open Access by
Understanding Open Access provides a scholarly author-oriented look at the ins and outs of open access publishing. The guide addresses common concerns about what "open access" means, how institutional open access requirements work, and why authors might consider making their work openly accessible online. Our aim is to provide real-life strategies and tools that authors can use to work with publishers, institutions, and funders to make their works available on the terms most consistent with their dissemination goals. Like all Authors Alliance materials and guides, Understanding Open Access is available on an open access basis and can be downloaded for free from authorsalliance.org/oa.
ISBN: 0692587241Publication Date: 2015-11-23
Knowledge Unbound by
Influential writings make the case for open access to research, explore its implications, and document the early struggles and successes of the open access movement. Peter Suber has been a leading advocate for open access since 2001 and has worked full time on issues of open access since 2003. As a professor of philosophy during the early days of the internet, he realized its power and potential as a medium for scholarship. As he writes now, "it was like an asteroid crash, fundamentally changing the environment, challenging dinosaurs to adapt, and challenging all of us to figure out whether we were dinosaurs." When Suber began putting his writings and course materials online for anyone to use for any purpose, he soon experienced the benefits of that wider exposure. In 2001, he started a newsletter--the Free Online Scholarship Newsletter, which later became the SPARC Open Access Newsletter--in which he explored the implications of open access for research and scholarship. This book offers a selection of some of Suber's most significant and influential writings on open access from 2002 to 2010. In these texts, Suber makes the case for open access to research; answers common questions, objections, and misunderstandings; analyzes policy issues; and documents the growth and evolution of open access during its most critical early decade.
ISBN: 9780262029902Publication Date: 2016-03-25
Open Access by
A concise introduction to the basics of open access, describing what it is (and isn't) and showing that it is easy, fast, inexpensive, legal, and beneficial. The Internet lets us share perfect copies of our work with a worldwide audience at virtually no cost. We take advantage of this revolutionary opportunity when we make our work "open access": digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Open access is made possible by the Internet and copyright-holder consent, and many authors, musicians, filmmakers, and other creators who depend on royalties are understandably unwilling to give their consent. But for 350 years, scholars have written peer-reviewed journal articles for impact, not for money, and are free to consent to open access without losing revenue. In this concise introduction, Peter Suber tells us what open access is and isn't, how it benefits authors and readers of research, how we pay for it, how it avoids copyright problems, how it has moved from the periphery to the mainstream, and what its future may hold. Distilling a decade of Suber's influential writing and thinking about open access, this is the indispensable book on the subject for researchers, librarians, administrators, funders, publishers, and policy makers.
ISBN: 9780262517638Publication Date: 2012-07-20
Medical Writing
- How to Write Case ReportsTemplate for how to write BMJ Case Reports