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Services for Authors at the Penn Libraries: Related Guides

Additional guides to assist you with your research and publishing

Citation Management Tools
Find 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.
Copyright Resources to Support Publishing and Teaching
A 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
Data Management
Information about support for the different aspects of data management, ethical use of data, documenting and sharing your data, making use of existing data.
Dissertation Deposit
The University's official guidance l for completing and submitting your dissertation. Departmental graduate advisors will be able to assist you.
Health and Life Science Research
Focused 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.
NIH Public Access Policy
The 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.
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 or aagate @ upenn.edu
Research Impact and Citation Analysis
Brings 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.
ScholarlyCommons
ScholarlyCommons 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.