Article Publication: Targeting Journals,

Retaining Copyright, and Making an Impact

Targeting Journals

Core JournalsJournal Publication Information

guide provides subject specific listings by college http://libguides.unco.edu/jpubinfo

What makes a journal core?◦Acknowledged by scholars in the

field◦Impact factor◦High visibility ◦Low acceptance rate/high invited

article rate

Quality indicators for journalsScholarly or professional

audiencePeer reviewedVisibility

◦Indexing◦Circulation◦Open access

Acceptance ratesEditor/editorial board

Ulrichsweb - Articles & More By subject identify titles

◦Active◦Refereed (peer reviewed)◦Academic/Scholarly ◦Circulation◦Indexing◦Reviewed (Core)◦Link to journal’s information page

Impact factor Journal ranking

Types of review processesEditorialPeer

◦Open◦Single Blind◦Double Blind

Cabell’s Directories - Articles & MoreEditor(s)Acceptance rate and % of invited

articlesType of reviewNumber of reviewers and time to

reviewSubmission and manuscript

guidelinesLink to journal information site

◦Publication fee◦Call for submissions

EditorsBen Varner

Academic Exchange QuarterlyEster Gimbernat Gonzalez

ConfluenciaLinda L. Black and Heather M. Helm

Counselor Education and SupervisionSample reviewer forms

http://www.unco.edu/ces/evaluation.htmFrederick “Rick” Silverman

Journal of Mathematics and Culture

Directory of Open Access Journals -http://www.doaj.org/

Scientific and scholarly journalsEditorial or peer reviewedTopics for each journalLanguagesLink to journal information site

What is an open access journal?No charge for readers or their

institutions to accessUsers have the right to “read,

download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles” (Budapest Open Access Initiative)

Research is showing that open access articles are cited significantly more than non-open access.

Retaining Copyright

Congratulations!Your article has been accepted

for publication What happens next?You will be asked to sign a

publication agreementBut don’t be in a rush to sign it There are some important

considerations . . .

What are your rights as an author?

You, as the author -- a person who has created an original expression of ideas -- automatically hold copyright once that expression is fixed in tangible form

And what is copyright?

Copyright is the exclusive legal right granted for a specified period (author’s life + 70 years) to print, publish, perform, film, or record original material

A Fair(y) Use Talehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJn_jC4FNDo

Let’s repeat those rights again:To publish and distribute a work

in print or other mediaTo reproduce it (e.g.,

photocopying)To prepare derivative works (e.g.,

translations)To perform or publicly display the

workTo authorize others to exercise

any of the above rights

Rights retention & transferCarefully read the publication

agreement with your future career in mind

Which rights should you retain and which rights should you transfer?

It doesn’t have to be all or nothing

It can be a compromiseIt can accommodate the needs of

information users

Full transfer: the traditional agreement

Status quo: transfer all rights to publisher

No posting on your web siteNo distribution to your colleaguesNo use (outside of fair use)

without publisher’s permissionIgnores the needs of the

information user

A compromise agreementAuthor transfers copyright to the

publisher; in exchange, publisher grants the author the following rights, for example:

Copies for colleaguesCopies for teaching duties (e.g.

course reserves)Inclusion on personal web site or

in institutional repository

Full retention: the limited licenseThe author retains copyright

ownership and licenses to the publisher a specific right (such as the right of first publication)

Open access: creative commonsThe author retains copyright

ownership and licenses to the publisher a specific right (such as the right of first publication)

The information user is granted rights beyond those typically granted for fair use

Proper attribution is often the only caveat

Where to find publishers’policies re copyright

Sherpa/Romeo web site:http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/Interactive database created by a

partnership of research librariesSummarizes standard

permissions in publishers’ copyright transfer agreements

Focuses upon self-archiving

The right to post on a web siteThere are several versions of

your submitted work:◦The “pre-print” version of your work

before it is refereed and published◦There are two “post-print” versions

of your work: Post-refereed (but not typeset) The publisher’s “official” typeset version

My non-legal adviceRead the contract when you are in a

rested, analytical frame of mindBe assertive in asking for what you wantAsk for clarifications and changesGet clarifications and changes in writingKeep copies of everything (email

correspondence, guidelines posted on web pages, contracts, etc.)

Keep copies of all submitted versions of your work

Impact

Impact factor

What is an Impact factor?The journal impact factor

measures the importance of a journal by calculating the times it’s articles are

cited.

Year 2008 citations to 2007 + 2006 articles

_____________________________Total no. of articles published in

2007 + 2006

Journal Citation Reports (JCR) forms part of the subscription-based ISI suite of Products known as Web of Knowledge which also includes Web of Science.

JCR is the original journal ranking tool, first developed in the 1950s, and it is the current market leader for journal rankings.

Citation Map: WoS

Journal Citation Reports

Journal Citation Reports

Journal Citation Reports

Impact factor: UseEvaluating individual scholars

Evaluating institutions

Evaluating journals

Subscription decision

Impact factor: limitationsOnly a limited subset of journals is indexed

by ISI◦ Only uses the articles cited by the ~10,000 “ISI

journals” ◦ Some disciplines are especially poorly covered

Database is dominated by American publications

Journals in database may vary from year to year

Impact factor: limitationsSelf citations are allowedReview articles are heavily cited

and inflate the impact factorLong articles collect many

citationsShort publication lag allows short

term journal self citationsBiased toward English-language

journals

Impact factor: Alternatives

A free and searchable database

EigenfactorTM scores and Article InfluenceTM scores rank journals much as Google ranks websites.

Covers the natural and social sciences

http://www.eigenfactor.org/

The SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a portal that includes the journals and country scientific information

A free source that uses data from Elsevier's Scopus database

http://www.scimagojr.com/

Google Scholar: Strength

• Number of articles found• International/multilingual

coverage• Better coverage of citations in

books and other non-journal sources

Weaknesses Inclusion of non-scholarly sources

• Lack of transparency regarding source selection, number of documents, coverage, indexing, etc.

• Coverage is uneven across different fields of study

• Doesn’t perform well for older publication

http://scholar.google.com/

What makes a journal core : A review

◦Acknowledged by scholars in the field

◦Impact factor◦High visibility ◦Low acceptance rate/high invited

article rate

◦For more information:◦http://libguides.unco.edu/jpubinfo

Question? Comment?Thank you !

Bette Rathe, Education LibrarianBette.rathe@unco.edu

Wendy Highby, Social Sciences LibrarianWendy.highby@unco.edu

Jayati Chaudhuri, Science LibrarianJayati.chaudhuri@unco.edu