Academic Journals

Submitting work to peer-reviewed journals is a daunting prospect for many young scientists. This list of resources was compiled by Caroline Sutton, PhD, Co-Action Publishing and Helle Goldman, PhD, Polar Research as part of their Spring 2012 Career Development Webinar.

During the webinar, Sutton and Goldman aimed to demystify the publishing process by explaining what happens to a manuscript after it's submitted, focusing on how submissions are evaluated. These resources and links provide helpful information on journal article publishing, including single-blind versus double-blind review, tips for authors submitting manuscripts, ethical issues (plagiarism, salami slicing, duplicate publication), understanding the fine print in publishers' contracts, open access publishing and how authors benefit from it. 

• Research Resources

  • PLoS: Pure Library of Science

    http://www.plos.org/

  • Mendeley

    http://www.mendeley.com/

  • iHOP: Informatioon Hyperlinked Over Proteins

    http://www.ihop-net.org/UniPub/iHOP/

• Submitting Manuscripts

  • Anticipate what reviewers will say about your manuscript

    K.A. Nicholas & W. Gordon 2011. A quick guide to writing a solid peer review. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 92, 233-234.

  • Advice about submitting a revised manuscript

    http://blog.editage.com/?q=submitting-a-revised-manuscript

  • Other useful links

    NISO/ALPSP Journal Article Versions Technical Working Group 2008. Journal article versions (JAV): recommendations of the NISO/ALPSP JAV Technical Working Group. NISO-RP-8-2008. Baltimore: National Information Standards Organization.
    Available at www.niso.org/publications/rp/RP-8-2008.pdf

    S. Morris 2009. Journal authors’ rights: perception and reality. PRC Summary Paper 5. London: Publishing Research Consortium.  Available at 
    http://publishingresearchconsortium.com/index.php/110-prc-projects/summary-papers/journal-authors-rights-summary-paper/140-journal-authors-rights-perception-and-reality

    R. Snodgrass 2006. Single- versus double-blind reviewing: an analysis of the literature. SIGMOD Record 35, 8-21.
    Available online: http://www.sigmod.org/publications/sigmod-record/0609/index.html

• Publishing Ethics

  M. Roig. 2006. Avoiding plagiarism, self-plagiarism, and other questionable writing practices: a guide to ethical writing. Available online at: http://ori.hhs.gov/avoiding-plagiarism-self-plagiarism-and-other-questionable-writing-practices-guide-ethical-writing

  Editorial. 2005. The cost of salami slicing. Nature Materials 4, 1. Available online at: http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v4/n1/full/nmat1305.html

  E. Wager & S. Kleinert. 2010. Responsible research publication: international standards for authors.  Available online at: https://publicationethics.org

  Washington University in St. Louis: Policy for authorship on scientific and scholarly publications. Available online at: http://wustl.edu/policies/authorship.html

• Open Access Publishing

  SHERPA-RoMEO: Publisher copyright policies and self-archiving information 
  www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo

  Science Commons Protocol for implementing:
  http://sciencecommons.org/projects/publishing/open-access-data-protocol/

  List of data repositories:
  http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Data_repositories

  OpenAIRE Plus:
  http://www.openaire.eu/

  John Willbanks:
  http://www.slideshare.net/wilbanks/openphacts-wilbanks

  Alternative measures of impact:

  altmetrics
  http://altmetrics.org/manifesto/

  Total Impact
  http://total-impact.org/

• Books and Other Resources

  Rudi Gens. Publishing and Reviewing Journal Papers (1 Feb. 2011)

  Josh Schimel. Writing Science: Framing the Story (2 Nov. 2010)

  Writing Science: Language (9 Nov. 2010)

  Writing Science: Flow (16 Nov. 2010)