getting published: tips & resources

Lisa Kruesi & Sharon Bunce, January 2014

Scholarly Publishing and Digitisation Service

Getting published in journals: tips & resources

Learning Objectives

1. Process of scholarly publishing

2. Where to publish

3. Author responsibilities

4. Writing resources

5. Managing references

6. Peer Review

7. Promoting your paper

8. Journal of the future

9. Top tips summary

http://www.library.uq.edu.au/research-support

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World’s first scientific journal

Core Functions

•Register research findings, their timing & the person(s) responsible

•Review and certify findings before they are published

•Disseminate new knowledge

•Preserve a record of the findings for the long term

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Thesis by publication

UQ Library eScholarship: research data, publishing, impact…

http://www.library.uq.edu.au/blogs/sp/2012/04/10/thesis-publication

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The publishing process: a publisher’s perspective

Image courtesy http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/intro.cws_home/glance_1

Research or Writing

what comes first?

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More details: Where to start

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Refining your ideas• Talk it over with colleagues

• Mind mapping your ideas for an article can reveal new relationships

• Identify the gap in the research

and define your aims

• Plan, make time, and WRITE!

More details Where to Start

Image courtesy of http://smartstorming-blog.com/tag/mind-mapping/

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB0ebIM7WoA&list=PL00C07719206487B3&feature=mh_lolz

Go Live To Dr Tamara Davis' - YouTube Video Good Research

UQ School of Mathematics

& Physics

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Where to publish?• Decide early (before drafting the paper). Look for a journal and then write the

paper. Read the publishing guidelines on the journal’s website. Check publishing options.

• Look for journals that have published in your discipline area

• Consider journals that have published work you cite

• Audience – who will read your article?

• Prestige – does the journal appear on the ERA journal listings?

• Predatory Publishers List

• UQ list of journals (in process)

• Access – will you publish in an open access journal?

• Journal Impact Factors – refers to how often a journal’s content is cited by other authors, thereby giving an indication of the influence of a publication. Available from Journal Citation Reports. Other journal quality measures.

• Likelihood of acceptance – top tier v’s less prestigious journals

More details: Where to Publish Your Journal Article

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Find out about author responsibilitiesThe Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research available at the Australian Government National Health and Medical Research Council Website

UQ Authorship policies 4.20.04 Explains the requirements for determining authorship on publications4.20.06 Research Data Management4.20.08 Open Access for UQ Research Outputs

It is vitally important to record your name, your institution’s name and your funding authority’s name consistently in your publicationsRegister: http://orcid.org/

Don’t end up on retraction watch

More details Fact Author Responsibilities

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Generally, the rule is to submit only to one journal at a time. More on this is available from: Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research, Section 4.7 Multiple submissions of research findings

• The 2012 ERA Journal Listings contains journals that are eligible for a university’s ERA 2012 submissions. To be updated 2014.

Titles on this list are scholarly, peer reviewed journals that publish original research.

Definition: ERA (Excellence in Research for Australia) is a Federal Government initiative that assesses the research quality within Australia's higher education institutions. ERA uses a combination of peer review and metrics indicators to evaluate research across eight discipline clusters.

Where to publish - resources

Where to publish – resources

UQ Library Subject Guides provide links to relevant databases in specific subject areas.

• UlrichsWeb provides detailed bibliographic information about over 300 000 journal titles.

Where to publish - resources

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Journal Citation Reports can help you to identify high-impact journals

Where to publish - resources

Where to publish – resourcesJournal Citation Reports

Where to publish?

• Scopus – Elsevier

OR

Open Sources

• Google Scholar

• SCImago

Further information about these resources:http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:309667

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PctsFyy0sbY&feature=relmfu

Where to publish?

Professor Tom O’Regan

UQ School of Media

English Studies and Art History

Open Accessfor more:

www.library.uq.edu.au/open-access Immediate

Free (to use)

Free (of restrictions)

Access to the peer-reviewed literature (and data)

Not vanity publishing

Not a ‘stick anything up on the Web’ approach

Moving scholarly communication into the Web Age

SEE: Open Access Presentations available: https://www.library.uq.edu.au/open-access

Alma Swan http://www.slideshare.net/UQSPADS/dr-28028199

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Writing resources at UQ• Supervisors

• Student Services

• Writing Workshops

• Writing Modules

• Resources held in the Library

More details: Writing resources & online modulesHelp with publishing if English is not your first language

Managing your references - HELP

• Reference packages via UQ Library

• Free reference managers available online include

More details : How to Manage References

•UQ Library Research Support reference management webpage

•UQ Library referencing styles guide

•UQ Library phone service (07) 33656063 (Mon-Fri) and email

Managing your references - HELP

From submission to publication

Peer Review Process…

The peer review process is a form of quality assurance…..during this process, experts in your field consider the merits of your work. They provide journal editors with an impartial decision about whether or not to publish, as well as how to improve an article already accepted for publication (Boden).

Purpose

• To help the editor decide whether to publish the paper.

• To help the authors improve the paper, whether or not the journal accepts it.

More details Peer review

Peer Review

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5g1H3-8R4Q

Go Live To Dr Tamara Davis' - YouTube Video Peer Review

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Editorial Process for Journals

More details: Editorial Process

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The final decision.

Acceptance

• Further revisions

• Editor

• Copy editor

• Final proofreading

Rejection

Understand the reasons:

• Content

• Format

• Author guidelines

• Writing structure

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Celebrate the publication of your paper!

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Promote Your Paper

More details: Promoting your paper

• Explaining the motivation for why you’ve undertaken the research is just as important as explaining the results.

• If you write a paper that is simple where concepts are explained and the motivation for your research is clear, people will understand your paper, use your results and you will get cited.

• Don’t be discouraged by a referee’s reports

• Write often, every day if possible, at least 15 mins

Top Tips for Publishing

• If you have good research and results, writing the papers will naturally follow on from that.

• When deciding where to publish, consider the journal’s approach to the subject matter (of your research) and to the style of debate within the journal itself.

• Journals can have up to a two year lead time. Consider publishing in a mix of venues so that you can ensure that your work is out in the public domain (rather than waiting to be published).

Top Tips continued…

Laurance, WF, Useche, DC, Laurance, SG & Bradshaw, CJA 2013, 'Predicting publication success for biologists', BioScience, vol. 63, no. 10, pp. 817-823. doi:10.1525/bio.2013.63.10.9

Priem, J 2013, 'Scholarship: Beyond the paper', Nature, vol. 495, no. 7442, pp. 437-440. doi:10.1038/495437a

The article of the future is now live – seven scientific areashttp://www.articleofthefuture.com/history

References mentioned during the presentation:

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More references…

Belcher, W. (2009). Writing your Journal Article in 12 Weeks. Sage: Thousand Oaks, CA.

Boden, S. “The Role and Nature of Peer Review.” The Library Research Exchange, University of Warwick, n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2012.

Booth, W., Colomb, G., & Williams, J. (1995). The Craft of Research. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Osman-Gani, A.M., Poell, R.F. (2011). International and Cross-Cultural Issues in Scholarly Publishing in The Handbook of Scholarly Writing and Publishing, Jossey-Bass, Hoboken.

University of Colorado Libraries. (2006). Publish, not perish: The Art and Craft of Publishing in Scholarly Journals. Retrieved from http://www.publishnotperish.org/

Scholarly Publishing UQ Library Series (2012):YouTube videos http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL00C07719206487B3&feature=plcp

With thanks and acknowledgement - Assoc Prof Tamara Davis and Prof Tom O’Regan, The University of Queensland

Thank you for attending

l.kruesi@library.uq.edu.au