Scientific Publishing and Scholarship for the 21st Century

Panel Discussion: Rick Carlson, Shaun Hardy, Steve Shirey, Alycia Weinberger

October 26, 2015

1. The Changing Landscape of Scientific Publishing

a. Society vs. Commercial Publishing

b. Peer Review

c. Open Access and New Business Models

The Open Access “Spectrum”: Gold and Green

Costs and Who Pays?

Mandates from Funding Agencies

E-Prints (arXiv) and Overlay Journals

Predatory Publishers

2. Intellectual Property Rights

a. Copyright vs. Creative Commons

b. Self-archiving

3. Attribution, Plagiarism, and Authorship Ethics

4. Deciding What, Where, and How to Publish

a. Astronomy

b. Earth and Planetary Sciences

5. Research Metrics

a. Journal, Article, and Author Metrics

b. What Metrics Can Teach About Who Is Reading Your Work - and Why

c. Use and Abuse of Metrics

6. Tools for Improved Scholarship

a. Author identifiers: ORCID and ResearcherID

b. Reference Management Tools: EndNote, Papers, Zotero, Mendeley, BibDesk

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OPEN ACCESS IN THE GEOSCIENCESOpen access is the practice of providing free, unrestricted access to research results and literature. It means that researchresults can be read by anyone at any time without having to go to a library that subscribes to a journal or request it throughinterlibrary loan.

Many Federal funding agencies are requiring grant recipients to provide open access to their research results by publishing inopen journals or paying to provide open access to their articles. Many publishers offer an open access option for a fee. GSISmembers have developed tables providing information on Options for Open Access Publishing in the Geosciences andOpen Access Journals in the Geosciences.

Why is open access important? The cost of journals and serials has increased much faster than the rate of inflation. As a result,Libraries can no longer afford to buy all of the journals needed to support teaching and research by faculty. Governmentagencies provide research grants to promote scientific discovery and innovation and improve the economy. More peoplebenefit if the results of that research is available to the widest possible audience.

More often than not, people are turning to the Internet for information. While the Internet can be searched to provide almostimmediate information on a topic, that information may not be scientifically sound. For example, an openly accessibleHeritage Foundation report on climate change states: “The persistence of coral reefs through geologic time . . . providessubstantive evidence that these marine entities can successfully adapt to a dramatically changing global environment. (1)”This statement ignores the fact that some corals in the fossil record no longer exist. The scietific articles that might refute thisstatement are not openly accessible. The scientific articles that might refute this statement are not openly accessible.Shouldn’t the evidence be available for everyone to read?

Researchers can promote open access by publishing in open access journals, paying open access publishing fees, posting ordepositing preprints (copies of articles submitted to journals) or postprints (copies of the article after peer review) on theirweb sites or in institutional repositories, managing their copyright to ensure that they retain some rights to their work, andcomplying with (and encouraging) open access policies.

For more information about Open Access, Author Rights, and Copyright, please consult the following resources:

Open Access

Association of American Universities, Association of Research Libraries, The Coalition for Networked Information and NationalAssociation of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, 2009. The University’s Role in the Dissemination of Researchand Scholarship — A Call to Action. EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 44, no. 2 (March/April 2009): 6–7. Accessed September 10,2013.

Burton, Gideon, 2009. Scholarly Communication Must Transform. Accessed September 10, 2013.

Columbia University Libraries. Open Access Primer. Accessed October 11, 2013.

Jeffery, Keith G., 2006. Open Access: An Introduction. ERCIM (European Research Consortium for Informatics andMathematics) News 64. Accessed September 10, 2013.

Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), 2001. Declaring Independence: A guide to creatingcommunity-controlled science journals. Accessed September 10, 2013.

Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), 2012. How Open Is It? Defining Open Access forJournals. Accessed October 11, 2013.

Special Libraries Association Science & Technology Division. Should I publish in, or be an editor for, an Open Access(OA) journal? A Brief Guide. Accessed October 11, 2013.

Suber, Peter, 2013. Open Access Overview. Accessed October 11, 2013.

What is Open Access? A guide from SHERPA (Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research).

Copyright & Publication Agreements

Columbia University Libraries. Copyright Quickguide. A guide on copyright developed by the Columbia University Libraries.Accessed October 11, 2013.

Columbia University Libraries. Creative Commons and Open Access. Accessed October 11, 2013.

Columbia University Libraries. Your Publication Agreements. A guide on copyright developed by the Columbia UniversityLibraries. Accessed October 11, 2013.

Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC). An Introduction to Copyright Resources forAuthors. Accessed September 10, 2013.

Predatory Publishers

The growth of open access had spawned the development of a new kind of publisher, known as Predatory Publishers, thatexist to generate revenue from author fees paid by unsuspecting authors. They and their practices have been described inseveral recent articles:

Beall, Jeffrey, 2012. Predatory Publishers are Corrupting Open Access. Nature, Volume 489, Issue 7415. AccessedSeptember 10, 2013.

Beall, Jeffrey, 2013. Predatory Journals and Publishers. Internet Sites. Accessed October 11, 2013.

Butler, D., 2013. Investigating journals: The dark side of publishing. Nature, Volume 495, no. 7442, 433-435. AccessedSeptember 10, 2013.

Before considering whether to publish in one of these publisher's journals, consider doing the Scholar's CRAAP (SCRAAP)Test on the call for papers and publisher's web site.

Developed by Linda Zellmer, Shaun Hardy and Amanda Bielskas.

1). Idso, Craig D., and Singer, S. Fred, 2009. Climate Change Reconsidered: 2009 Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change(NIPCC), p. 7. [Chicago, Ill.]: Heartland Institute. Citation of this publication does not indicate an endorsement of the publication or its contents.

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JournalImpact Factor

Yearestablished Publisher Subject Coverage OA fee per article

Acta Geophysica NA 1953 De Gruyter pure and applied geophysics no charge

Advances in Geosciences 0.333 2003 Copernicus/EGUgeology, geochemistry, geophysics, biogeosciences, geodesy, hydrology, ocean sciences, atmospheric sciences

€31‐€51/page

AIP Advances 1.590 2011 AIP physical sciences $1,350 Algorithms for Molecular Biology 1.857 2006 BioMed Central molecular biology, genomics $1,940 

Annales Geophysicae 1.676 1989 Copernicus/EGUSun‐Earth system; science of Space weather; Solar‐Terrestrial plasma physics; Earth's atmosphere and oceans

€45‐€60/page

Annals of Geophysics 1.157 1978 INGV, Italyearth sciences, seismology, geodesy, volcanology, oceanography, climatology, geomagnetism, paleomagnetism

no charge

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 5.298 2001 Copernicus/EGUgases, aerosols, clouds and precipitation, isotopes, radiation, dynamics, biosphere interactions, hydrosphere interactions

€25‐€40/page

Biogeosciences 3.753 2004 Copernicus/EGUastrobiology, exobiology, biodiversity and ecosystem function, biogeochemistry, biogeophysics, paleobiogeoscience

€25‐€40/page

Biology Direct 4.035 2006 BioMed Central biology $2,145 BMC Biochemistry 1.938 2000 BioMed Central biochemistry $2,145 

BMC Biology 7.431 2003 BioMed Centralbiology, biochemistry, biomedical science, cell biology, chemical biology, ecology, genetics, neurobiology 

$2,605 

BMC Ecology NA 2001 BioMed Centralenvironmental ecology, behavioral ecology, population ecology, plants, animals, microbes

$2,145 

BMC Genomics 4.041 2000 BioMed Central genomics, genetics  $2,145 BMC Microbiology 2.976 2001 BioMed Central microbiology $2,145 

Carbon Balance and Management NA 2006 Springerglobal carbon cycle, climate, atmospheric carbon dioxide, terrestrial biospheres, oceanic biospheres

$1,085 

Climate of the Past 3.482 2005 Copernicus/EGUdynamics in ocean, atmosphere, ice, vegetation, carbon cycle, greenhouse gases, climate modelling 

€25‐€40/page

Collabra NA 2015? U. California Press ecology and environmental sciences, life sciences $875 

Open Access Journals:  Geophysics, Geochemistry, and Geobiology

(June 2015)

The Cryosphere 4.374 2007 Copernicus/EGU

ice sheets and glaciers; planetary ice bodies; permafrost; river, lake and sea ice; seasonal snowcover; remote sensing, numerical modelling, in‐situ and laboratory studies of the cryosphere

€25‐€40/page

DNA Research 4.975 1994 Oxford U. Pressstructure and function of genomes, gene analysis, methods and tools for DNA research, bioinformatic analysis of genomic data

$500 

Earth and Space Science NA 2014 AGU/Wileyearth, planetary, space, and environmental sciences; geoengineering, space engineering, biogeochemistry

$900‐$1,800

Earth Perspectives NA 2013 Springerearth system science, earth‐human interactions, global change, sustainability

$1,290 

Earth Surface Dynamics NA 2013 Copernicus/EGUphysical, chemical, and biological processes shaping earth's surface

no charge

Earth's Future NA 2013 AGU/Wileyglobal change, sustainability, earth‐human interactions

$1,800 

Earthquake Science NA 1979/1988 Wileyseismology, geophysics, tectonics, earthquake engineering

$1,830 

Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene NA 2013 BioOneearth system science, earth‐human interactions, sustainability

$650‐$1,450

eLife NA 2012HHMI/MPG/Wellcome Trust

life sciences and biomedicine no charge

Frontiers in Earth Science NA 2013 Frontier Mediasolid Earth, hydrosphere, atmosphere, cryosphere, biosphere

$0‐$1,900

Genome Biology and Evolution 4.532 2009 Oxford U. Press evolutionary biology, genomics, molecular biology $1,250‐$1,800

Geochemical Perspectives 8.250 2012 EAG geochemistry   no chargeGeochemical Perspectives Letters NA 2015 EAG geochemistry no charge

Geochemical Transactions 2.647 2006 ACS/Chemistry Centralgeochemistry, marine and aquatic chemistry, chemical oceanography, biogeochemistry, astrobiology

$1,085 

GeoResJ NA 2014 Elsevier earth and planetary sciences $1,100‐$2,200

Geoscience Letters NA 2013 Springerearth sciences, environment, planetary and space sciences

$980 

Geosciences NA 2011 MDPI earth history, natural hazards, environment, geoethics 300 CHF

Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems 

NA 2012 Copernicus/EGUinstrumentation and data systems in earth, ocean, atmospheric, and space sciences

no charge

Geoscientific Model Development 6.086 2008 Copernicus/EGUdevelopment and evaluation of mathematical models of the Earth System and its components

€25‐€40/page

Geothermal Energy NA 2013 Springerenergy exploration, development, and delivery; geology, geophysics, geochemistry

no charge

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 3.642 1997 Copernicus/EGU

hillslope, catchment, global, vadose zone, groundwater, urban and engineering hydrology; rivers and lakes; coasts and estuaries; hydrometeorology; ecohydrology; biogeochemical processes and water resources management

€25‐€40/page

International Journal of Coal Science & Technology

NA 2014 Springercoal research, coal mining/processing, health/safety, environmental issues

no charge

International Journal of Geo‐Engineering NA 2015 Springer geotechnical engineering, geo‐energy no charge

IUCrJ NA 2014 IUCr crystallography, structural science $1,000 

Journal of Applied Volcanology NA 2012 Springer applied volcanology, societal impact and response $1,230 

Journal of Physics: Conference Series NA 2004 IOPphysics (all areas); publishes conference proceedings only

Journal of Tethys NA 2013 self‐published earth sciences no chargemBio 6.086 2010 ASM microbiology $1,000‐$3,000Microbiology Open NA 2012 Wiley microbiology $1,879‐$2,349

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 1.826 2001 Copernicus/EGU

all natural hazards; databases, GIS, remote sensing, early warning systems and monitoring technologies; risk assessment, mitigation and adaptation strategies; socioeconomic and management aspects; dissemination, education, outreach and teaching

€25‐€40/page

Nature Communications 10.742 2010 Nature Publishing Groupnatural sciences, biology, chemistry, earth sciences, physics

$5,200 

New Journal of Physics 3.671 1998 IOP/DPG physics (all areas) $2,080 

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics 1.692 1994 Copernicus/EGUnonlinear processes in all branches of Earth, planetary and solar system sciences

€17‐€40/page

Ocean Science 1.962 2005 Copernicus/EGU

ocean physics and chemistry; biological oceanography; air‐sea interactions; physical, chemical and biological and biochemical ocean models; coastal processes; paleooceanography

€25‐€40/page

Open Biology 4.556 2011 Royal Societycell biology, developmental biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, immunology, microbiology

$2,160 

Palaeontologia Electronica1.365 1998

Palaeontological Assoc./Paleontological Soc./SVP

all aspects of paleontology and related disciplines no charge

PeerJ NA 2013 PeerJ life sciences and biomedicine $99‐$299

Periodico di Mineralogia 0.804 1930/1999 Edizioni Nuova Culturamineralogy, petrology, volcanology, crystallography, geochemistry

no charge

Petroleum Science NA 2004 Springerpetroleum geology, geophysics, chemistry, and engineering

$1,830 

Physical Review X 8.463 2011 APS physics (all areas) $1,700+PLoS Biology 11.771 2003 Public Library of Science biology, molecular biology, ecology $2,900 

PLoS Genetics 8.167 2005 Public Library of Science

biological sciences, gene discovery, population genetics, genome projects, comparative genomics, functional genomics, , evolution, gene expression, chromosome biology, epigenetics

$2,250 

PLoS ONE 3.534 2006 Public Library of Science science, medicine $1,350

PoS ‐ Proceedings of Science NA 2005 SISSAastronomy, biophysics, physics, science communication; publishes conference proceedings only

no charge

Progress in Earth and Planetary Science NA 2013Springer/Japan Geoscience Union

solid earth, atmosphere, hydrosphere, space and planetary science, biogeoscience

no charge

Royal Society Open Science NA 2014 Royal Society of London science, engineering, mathematics $1,600 Science Advances NA 2015 AAAS science, technology, engineering $2,200‐$2,700

Scientific Reports 5.078 2011 Nature Publishing Groupnatural sciences, biology, chemistry, earth sciences, physics

$1,495

Solid Earth 2.155 2010 Copernicus/EGU

geochemistry; geodesy; geodynamics; geomorphology; geophysics; magma and rock physics; magnetism; mineral physics; palaeontology; petrology; planetary science; sedimentology; seismology; soil system science; stratigraphy; structural geology; tectonophysics; volcanology

€17‐€40/page

SpringerPlus NA 2012 Springer all disciplines of science $1,085 

Impact Factors are from 2013 Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports.Article processing fees are as of March 2015.

Tips for Sources and their Citation (All the material below was excerpted from the document “Sources and Citation at Dartmouth College” published by the Committee on Sources, May, 2008 and in use at Both Dartmouth and Yale. Some parts were modified by omission where material was not relevant to the Carnegie community. The full document is available on the web at the following link: http://writing-speech.dartmouth.edu/sites/writing-speech.dartmouth.edu/files/FINAL%20Sources%2011-12.pdf) Academic integrity

Proper citation lies at the heart of intellectual exchange. By citing sources correctly, you acknowledge your debts to other scholars, signal your desire to belong to a community of ideas, and highlight—precisely—your contribution to the ongoing academic conversation. When you demonstrate that you have done the research required to qualify you to join the conversation, you not only show respect for others’ work, you also confer authority upon yourself and highlight the novelty of your particular contribution to the set of ideas under discussion. In these ways, citing sources represents a fundamental step in developing a scholarly voice.

Furthermore, by citing sources you extend a courtesy to other scholars. Citations provide a trail by which others who are interested in your topic can track an idea. What Is Plagiarism?

Plagiarism is intellectual theft. It occurs when you use the words or ideas of others without acknowledging that you have done so. If you are aware of a source, use an idea or quotation from this source, and fail to cite it, then you have plagiarized—regardless of your intent.

• If you quote from a source, you must specifically mark the quoted material and immediately cite the source. Place the quoted text in quotation marks or format it as a block quotation. Your citation should appear at the point of quotation, either in parentheses or in a footnote or endnote. Listing the source in a bibliography does not, by itself, constitute proper citation; you must cite at the point of use.

• If you quote a distinctive phrase, or even a single distinctive word, place it in quotation marks and cite the source.

• If you paraphrase an idea or special information from a source—that is, if you restate the idea, but alter the exact wording—you must cite that source.

• If you use images, maps, charts, tables, data sets, musical compositions, movies, new-media compositions, computer source code, song lyrics, and the like, you must cite the source.

Citation styles and formats matter, but style and formatting errors do not constitute plagiarism. As long as you properly cite your source at the place where you use another’s words or ideas, you are not plagiarizing. Once style and formatting errors are brought to your attention, you should correct them for the benefit of readers who might wish to trace your sources. What Is Common Knowledge?

The rule seems simple: Whenever you quote from or use another person’s work, that author must be cited. But what should you do when you are writing about an idea that did not originate with you, that seems to be part of “common knowledge,” and that you may or may not have taken from a specific source? While you do not need to cite common knowledge, it may prove difficult for you to recognize what knowledge is “common.”

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Try to determine how scholars treat similar information. Do they cite it? If not, it is probably common knowledge, at least within this particular discipline. Do some cite while others do not? Play it safe, and cite. Is the information in question brand new information for you? Are you unable to find that information in multiple sources? Again, play it safe, and cite. If you need further confirmation, ask your professor. Citing While You Write

Many scholars [sic] envision citing sources as the final step in the writing process. They collect their materials, make notes, and draft their arguments. If they find themselves “on a roll,” they may not want to stop to check or to cite their sources, figuring that they can add the citations later on as finishing touches. But this practice is neither efficient nor safe. It is far better practice to cite your sources as you find them and use them.

When you decide to use a source, fully record all the information required to craft a citation. When you make note of a particular passage, be careful to include the page number. If you make careful notes, you will not need to search the source to identify missing details later.

Also, be careful when you cut and paste your sources from your notes to your paper. It is all too easy, while composing, to cut and paste a quotation from your notes without also pulling along the citation. Sloppy note-taking does not excuse plagiarism.

In sum, do not wait until the final draft to insert citations. The take-home message: cite while you write. Collaborating with Your Peers

Being part of a scholarly community often requires that you collaborate with others on your work. Collaborating can pose special problems. Collaboration on Group Papers

When you are asked to write collaboratively, be sure that you understand the terms of the collaboration and that you follow them carefully. Consider recording who does what, in terms of writing and research, and make the record available to all collaborators, so that no one will dispute what it contains, should some aspect of the collaboration come into question. If particular students have completed specific tasks (one has done the research, another the drafting, another the editing and citation checking), you might want to make a note of this distribution of labor at the paper’s end. Because you are responsible for the content of any work that bears your name, you should read over any such work before it is submitted. Your Great Idea Is Already Published?

Suppose you come up with an idea and then discover that someone else has already published it. You might feel discouraged, but you could also regard this experience as proof that you, too, are capable of coming up with publishable ideas. Scholarship is a conversation, much of it in print, and becoming a scholar involves joining in. You can enter the conversation in any number of ways, always citing the sources of these ideas.

• You can agree with other scholars but push their ideas a step or two further, or in another direction entirely.

• You can agree with their analyses and then put those same observations and analyses to work on another text, event, or problem.

• You can recast the problem in entirely new terms and point out other scholars’ unacknowledged assumptions.

• You may, after further reading and thought, decide that you disagree with the prevailing critical opinions and proceed from there. One thing you certainly should not do is proceed as if you had never discovered that

someone else already published your idea.

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Using and Citing Images, Video, and Audio

As you write essays and develop presentations, you may want to include images, audio, or video clips to make your argument. You may legally use these images, without permission, for academic purposes.

When using an illustration in your essay, be sure to cite its source according to… …guidelines. When creating a film, be sure to cite sources and give credit at the film’s end. If you use images, video, or audio in a presentation, determine a strategy for citation, providing the source on the slide where the borrowed material appears. If this citation practice is not appropriate for the discipline, provide citations at the presentation’s end. Acknowledging Sources in Presentations

The style of attribution in oral or multimedia presentations varies considerably, but the guiding principle is acknowledgment. Always let your audience know when you are using someone else’s idea or material in your presentation. Say “quote” and “end quote” if you use a passage verbatim. You might also mention when and where a source first appeared because the time and appearance of the idea may provide useful context for the presentation. Saying where the source was published can also add an element of authority. But these details are not necessary as long as you indicate to whom the idea or work belongs. Your audience can see you afterward if they want more details on your sources. Evaluating Credibility of Sources

In any conversation, the speakers may have different levels of credibility. Some seem widely read, knowledgeable and able to defend their views confidently and persuasively. Others may exaggerate, oversimplify, or make leaps of logic that render their claims less believable. As you join such conversations, you invariably listen to assess the credibility of the various participants.

In a scholarly conversation, the analog of listening is research. Like speakers, individual sources may vary in their degree of credibility. The better you understand the perspectives and contexts reflected in a source, the richer your analysis of that material will be.

Primary sources, produced by the scholars whom you want to study, usually reflect a range of interests and credibilities. Indeed, it is precisely their unique and time-dependent content that makes primary sources—novels, memoirs, advertisements, political speeches, census data, even earlier texts of history or science—so rich for analysis.

Secondary sources, produced by scholars seeking to analyze, arrange, and understand the worlds of primary sources, also exhibit varying degrees of credibility and interests. You might read a literary critic differently if you know he is reviewing a colleague’s book, or a sociologist differently if she is employed by the tobacco industry, or an economist differently if her work is published by a Washington think tank rather than a university press.

The question, therefore, is not simply whether or not your sources are credible. Rather, you should ask to what extent they are credible and to whom. Being critically aware of the perspectives and interests behind your sources will help enhance the sophistication and credibility of your own analyses and conclusions.

Here is a list of tips… …that will help you gauge a source’s credibility: • Who wrote it? What are the author’s background and credentials? Does the author have the

expertise to write on this topic? Look for information on the author’s academic affiliation or a brief biography in the front or back of a book, or with the abstract of a journal. You might also look up the author in the Library Catalog or through Search360 to see what else he or she has written. You can also Google the author to find his or her homepage or affiliation. The Web of Science Citation Databases, a scholarly database available through the

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Library, will allow you to see how many times an article has been cited in other articles—a measure of its influence.

• Where was it published? Is it in a scholarly journal? Look for a statement indicating that the journal is peer reviewed (that is, that the articles are independently evaluated by experts in the field). Many scholarly journals are published by university presses (such as Harvard University Press), professional societies (such as the American Medical Association), or scientific publishers (such as Elsevier).

• Who is the intended audience? Is it written for other scholars and researchers? Look at the language of the article to determine whom the author is writing for. Note whether the writer uses professional jargon or specialized terminology. Consider whether the writer assumes that readers have some background in the field in order to understand the article’s basic terms and premises. Also consider the organization of the article. In some disciplines, professional articles will have a predictable structure, perhaps including an abstract, methodology, results, analysis, and conclusion.

• Is it timely? Is its currency appropriate for its field? The accuracy of a source may depend on the field. In the sciences, an article from just a year or two ago may be outdated, whereas in the humanities, there may be a wider window of timeliness. For some very recent topics, newspapers, magazines, and other popular periodicals may be your best resources.

• What are the article’s sources? Does the author draw upon a context of research? Look at the footnotes and bibliography to see if the author cites other published research in the same field. Skim the article to see if it offers a “literature review” or summary of the research on the topic. Determine whether or not the author uses a range of sources—articles, books, reports, etc.

Steve Shirey

“Scientific Publishing and Scholarship for the 21st Century” Postdoc Workshop

Carnegie Institution of Washington

BBR Campus, October 26, 2015

Toolkit for Scientific Authors

1. Understand research metrics and calculate your h-index

“Measuring Your Impact”, Yale University Library, http://guides.library.yale.edu/impact

2. Get a free ResearcherID and ORCID

http://www.researcherid.com

http://orcid.org

3. Learn about open access publishing opportunities

“Open Access in the Geosciences”, Geoscience Information Society,

http://www.geoinfo.org/openaccess.html

4. Understand Copyright and Creative Commons

“Copyright Information and Resources”, University of Minnesota Libraries,

https://www.lib.umn.edu/copyright

5. Find out if/how you can post (self-archive) your own journal papers

SHERPA/RoMEO, http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/

6. Fulfill your funding agency’s public access requirements

ROARMAP, http://roarmap.eprints.org

7. Investigate an unknown or suspicious journal

“Beall’s List of Predatory OA Publishers”, http://scholarlyoa.com

8. Choose the right reference management software for your needs

“Overview of citation software”, MIT Libraries, http://libguides.mit.edu/references

9. Explore the Ethics of Authorship

On Being A Scientist: A Guide to Responsible Conduct in Research, 3rd edn., National

Academies, http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12192

10. Join in the dialog on the future of science publishing

The Scholarly Kitchen [blog], Society for Scholarly Publishing,

http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/

Shaun Hardy, 26 Oct 2015