Scholarly Publishing and Communication

Scholarly publishing and communication has typically focused on journal publications. However, HSLS also supports dissemination of all types of research outputs, such as preprints, protocols, datasets, and software.

Librarians offer support, consultations, and/or customized trainings on:

• Writing up your research
  • Pre-registration of study protocols
  • Using reporting guideline checklists
  • Choosing a citation manager to manage references
  • Tools for figure creation
  • Writing a data availability statement
• Publication ethics
  • Avoiding plagiarism
  • Determining authorship and contribution credits
• Determining where to submit
  • Evaluating/comparing journals, preprint servers, data repositories, etc.
  • Identifying predatory journals
  • Public access policy compliance
• Open access publishing and author rights
  • Benefits and considerations for open access publishing
  • Maintaining copyright
  • Choosing a license, including different Creative Commons
• Promoting your research
  • Creating visual/graphical abstracts
  • Managing your online researcher presence
  • Using research metrics responsibly
• Peer review
  • Becoming a better peer reviewer
  • Open peer review