Publishing Your Research

This guide has additional information on your rights as an author and how to manage those rights.

Additional information on creating and using copyrighted works on campus and beyond.

This guide will outline the pros and cons of impact factors, introduce you to some of the newer tools for measuring impact, and provide some tips and tricks you can use to create and manage your scholarly profile in an online environment.

Formed in 2015, the Radical Open Access Collective is a community of scholar-led, not-for-profit presses, journals and other open access projects. Now consisting of more than 50 members, they promote a progressive vision for open publishing in the humanities and social sciences.

Many of these publishers are committed to non-traditional, non-western scholarship. This site includes a page of OA publishers and organizations who offer funding for OA publishing. It including national universities around the world (in US, Emory OU, UC Berkeley and Cornell) and legitimate institutions, foundations (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) and government agencies from around the world.

KNOWLEDGE UNLATCHED - KU works with publishers, libraries and ebook platforms (JSTOR, MUSEOpen, HathiTrust) to make new or already published books open access.

Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem, advances the wide dissemination of scholarship by humanities and humanistic social sciences faculty members through open access editions of peer-reviewed and professionally edited monographs.

A guide to open access textbooks or Open Education Resources (OERs).

Burggren, W. & Madasu, D. K. & Hawkins, K. S. & Halbert, M., (2018) “Marketing via Email Solicitation by Predatory (and Legitimate) Journals: An Evaluation of Quality, Frequency and Relevance”, Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 6(1), p.eP2246. doi: https://doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.2246

The Federal Trade Commission accused Omics International, a publisher in India, of operating hundreds of questionable scientific journals. A federal judge agreed.

June, 2018 article from the Economist, good overview of issues associated with deceptive journals and their practices.

Chronicle of Higher Education article on the deceptive practices with editorial boards of some journals (August, 2018)

Chronicle of Higher Education article explaining what happened to Beall's list of predatory journals died (Sept, 2017).

Tales of scholars who have been snookered by unscrupulous publishers are commonly told. But the International Journal of Humanities and Social Science has claimed another set of victims: Professors who say their names and clout have been poached.

The article discusses why University of Colorado at Denver librarian Jeffrey Beall deleted a list of other 1,000 academic journals he deemed untrustworthy. It suggests this may have been due to pressure from other university librarians, the college administration, or publishing companies. The article goes on to look at how the incident reflects challenges associated with researchers sharing and collaborating on work.