Introduction
Navigating the publishing world—scholarly or otherwise—can be a daunting process because of the many considerations at play, and the often-times high stakes involved. This guide will help you identify key elements to explore in order to make an informed decision about where to publish your work.
Resources: Getting Started
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400+ Tools and innovations in scholarly communicationCollaborative effort compiling an expansive list of tools and resources in scholarly communications. It currently includes over 600 tools divided over six phases of the research lifecycle: Discovery, Analysis, Writing, Publication, Outreach, and Assessment.
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Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks byISBN: 9781412957014Publication Date: 2009-01-20A comprehensive guide on publishing articles in the humanities and social sciences. The innovative approach aids in overcoming author anxieties and helps to produce academic publications: "Each week, readers learn a particular feature of strong articles and work on revising theirs accordingly. At the end of twelve weeks, they send their article to a journal."
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Getting Published in Academic Journals byISBN: 0472035401Publication Date: 2016-09-19"The aim of this guide is to clarify the process [of scholarly publication] and offer advice. Getting Published in Academic Journals is written for graduate students and newly graduated PhDs who want to publish their research in peer-reviewed academic journals."
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Publishing from Your Doctoral Research byISBN: 9780429441257Publication Date: 2019-11-27"The 'Insider Guides to Success in Academia' offers support and practical advice to doctoral students and early-career researchers. Covering the topics that really matter, but which often get overlooked, this indispensable series provides practical and realistic guidance to address many of the needs and challenges of trying to operate, and remain, in academia."
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The Academic's Handbook, Fourth Edition byISBN: 9781478012641Publication Date: 2020-09-21"In this revised and expanded edition of The Academic's Handbook, more than fifty contributors from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds offer practical advice for academics at every career stage, whether they are first entering the job market or negotiating the post-tenure challenges of leadership and administrative roles."
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Revise : The Scholar-Writer's Essential Guide to Tweaking, Editing, and Perfecting Your Manuscript by ISBN: 9780300258462Publication Date: 2021"Drawing on before and after examples from more than a decade as a developmental editor of scholarly works, Pamela Haag tackles the most common challenges of scholarly writing. This book is packed with practical, user-friendly advice and is written with warmth, humor, sympathy, and flair. With an inspiring passion for natural language, Haag demonstrates how to reconcile clarity with intellectual complexity."
Support for Publishing Workshop Slides
What to Consider When Choosing a Publisher
An introduction to academic publishing, this slide presentation provides an overview of publishing options, a discussion of open access publishing, and a selection of resources and tools to assist in evaluating which is right for you.
Raising Your Visibility Through Sharing Your Scholarship
This presentation covers benefits and challenges associated with leading academic sharing outlets--e.g. Academia.edu, ResearchGate, Humanities Commons, arXiv, and Penn's institutional repository, ScholarlyCommons--and explores key considerations, including potential costs, copyright and permissions, and impact measurement.
Choosing Publishing Options for Medical Academics
An introduction to academic publishing tailored to the needs of academics in the medical field. These presentation slides include an overview of the publishing landscape, an exploration of open access publishing (along with potential costs and funding sources), and tools and resources for selecting a publishing outlet and evaluating scholarly impact.
I Wrote My Dissertation, Now What?
Designed for those currently writing a dissertation or who have recently completed one, these workshop slides provide an overview of important considerations, including: embargoes, submitting to ProQuest, copyright registrations, Creative Commons licenses, scholarly repositories, future publishing goals, etc.
Spring 2022 Support for Publishing and OA Week workshops
The Penn Libraries in collaboration with the Grad Center offers a slate of workshops to support your publishing process. From citation management to online profiles and scholarly sharing platforms to approaches to writing book reviews, from choosing a journal or publisher that serves your scholarly goals to ethical approaches to research. You can find a full list of our "Support for Publishing" workshops" on the Libraries workshop calendar. Most our spring workshops continue to be online via zoom. Register in advance to receive the zoom link for each workshop.
Follow the links to register, for more information, and to receive Zoom link:
Introduction to EndNote: Managing Your Citations
February 15, 11-12 Judith Currano
https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/8839779
Getting Started with Mendeley: Organize and Cite
February 16, 11-12 Rebecca Stuhr
https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/8839808
Zotero 101
February 17, 11-12 Shannon Robinson
https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/8839790
Responsibly sharing your scholarship: what exactly is a Creative Commons License, and why should you care?
Tuesday, March 15 2:00-3:00 Christine Weller/Rebecca Stuhr
https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/8858875
I finished my Dissertation, Now What?
March 28, 2:00-3:00 Rebecca Stuhr
https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/8857977
Introduction to Data Visualization
March 30 2:00-3:00 Manuel de la Cruz Gutierrez
https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/8840344
Introduction to Online Profile Services
April 4 2:00-3:00 Manuel de la Cruz Gutierrez
https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/8840376
Raising the Visibility of your Scholarship through Scholarly Platforms and Measuring Your Impact
April 5, 1:00-2:00 Rebecca Stuhr and Richard James
https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/8857930
Dissertation and Copyright
April 11, 1:00-2:00 Christine Weller
https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/8858855
Ethical Dissertation Writing: Reuse, Permission, and References
April 12, 2:00-3:00 Judith Currano
https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/8858799
Spotting Red Flags for Low-Quality Journals
April 14, 2:00-3:00 Richard James
https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/8857942
Get in Touch
Beyond this guide, Penn Libraries' subject specialists are available to further assist in the publishing process. With expertise in identifying, evaluating, and assessing impact of journals, publishers, and scholars across the disciplines, our subject specialists are a useful resource for your publishing needs.
Related Guides
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Citation Management ToolsFind resources for proper citation and get started with a variety of citation tools: Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote, Refworks, PowerNotes, and Noodle Tools. Connect with the Libraries' contact for each tool. Or contact your subject specialist to find out more.
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Copyright Resources to Support Publishing and TeachingA guide for faculty, staff, and students at Penn about how to obtain, manage, and understand copyright issues for their work. Talk to your subject specialist to get started
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Data FluenciesInformation about support for the different aspects of data management, ethical use of data, documenting and sharing your data, making use of existing data. Contact mjanz@upenn.edu to learn more.
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Dissertation ManualThe University's official manual for completing and submitting your dissertation. Departmental graduate advisors will be able to assist you. You may also want to review resources at the The Grad Center.
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Health and Life Science ResearchFocused on the needs of researchers in the life and health sciences. Includes information about finding literature, protocols, and methods, setting up alerts to keep up to date, and help with publishing, and locating funding.
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NIH Public Access PolicyThe information in this guide will help with several of the compliance issues that University of Pennsylvania authors will need to address and is organized around three steps to compliance: addressing copyright, submitting to PMC and citing PMCIDs in NIH. Contact dmanuel@upenn.edu to find out more.
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Orcid"ORCID [Open Researcher and Contributor ID] provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between you and your professional activities ensuring that your work is recognized." To find out more, contact dmanuel@upenn.edu.
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Research Impact and Citation AnalysisBrings together resources that provide measures of scholarly impact using both traditional metrics, such as journal impact factor and h-index, and emerging web-based alternatives, referred to as altmetrics, cybermetrics, and webometrics. For further assistance, contact your subject specialist.
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ScholarlyCommonsScholarlyCommons is the University of Pennsylvania's open access institutional repository for gathering, indexing, storing, and making widely available the scholarly output of the Penn community. Reflecting the core values of inclusion, innovation, and impact in the Penn Compact 2020, ScholarlyCommons shares the exceptional works of Penn faculty, staff, and students with a local, national, and global audience. Access to ScholarlyCommons is free to all. To get started or to find out more, contact your subject specialist.