by crauter | Apr 20, 2016 | Events and training, Open Access, Publishing
Have you received emails asking you to submit a paper to a journal or conference? Researchers are increasingly being bombarded by unsolicited solicitations to publish and these should be treated with extreme caution. The model of authors paying to publish open access...
by crauter | Dec 9, 2015 | Publishing, Research News
The author address in Scopus Scopus decides which institution you belong to by looking at the address you give in your most recent paper. Once this has been published it is hard to change it so it is important that you give Swansea University as your institution in...
by crauter | Oct 21, 2014 | Publishing, Research Impact
The journal Science reports on a study carried out by the Google Scholar team. According to this research: In 1995, only 27% of citations pointed to articles published in nonelite journals. That portion grew to 47% by 2013. And the nonelite journals published an...
by crauter | Jul 18, 2014 | Publishing, Research Impact, Research News
Many academics have taken up blogging with enthusiasm as a way of sharing and promoting their research online or as a more reflective way of working. For others, the idea of blogging is an addition to a heavy workload and comes with anxiety about public scrutiny and...
by crauter | Jun 9, 2014 | Open Access, Publishing
Universities that pay for their researchers’ papers to appear in IOP Publishing’s open access journals could have most of the costs offset against their library subscription fees Under a three-year pilot project announced today, universities taking part...
by crauter | Jun 2, 2014 | Open Access, Publishing
A guest post by Lynette Summers, Information Advisor (CSS & Research) at Cardiff Metropolitan University, who writes about creating a successful gold open access journal with institutional collaboration. Interpreting Ceramics: Gold before the Gold Rush The UK is...
