Transcript What are your publication options?

What are your
publication options?
Laura Happe & Meg Franklin
What’s ‘the end’ for this pub?
Formats
Manuscripts
Podiums
Posters
Manuscript
Poster/Podium
Formats
Pros
Cons
Selecting the Right Conference
• Outcomes Research Conferences (some examples)
– International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and
Outcomes Research
– Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy
– Society of Medical Decision Making
– American Public Health Association
– AcademyHealth
• Disease-specific conferences
• Pharmacy conferences
Selecting the Right Journal
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Scope
Impact factor
Indexing
Open access
Epub ahead of print
Supplements
Journal: Scope
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Aims of the journal
Readership
Article types
Pull example articles
Journals: Impact Factor
• Measure of the number of citations for a
journal; used as a proxy for the relative
importance of a journal within it’s field
– http://thomsonreuters.com/journal-citationreports/
– http://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php
– http://www.impactfactorsearch.com/
Journal: Indexing
• A proxy for a given journal’s quality
• PubMed searches:
1. MEDLINE indexed journals
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National Library of Medicine® (NLM®) journal citation
database including over 5,600 journals
2. PubMed Central
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A free archive of biomedical and life sciences journal
literature at the NLM
3. NCBI Bookshelf
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NLM books
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/dif_med_pub.html
Journal: Indexing
Google Scholar
• If you're an individual author, it works best to simply upload your paper to
your website, e.g., www.example.edu/~professor/jpdr2009.pdf; and add a
link to it on your publications page, such as
www.example.edu/~professor/publications.html. Make sure that:
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the full text of your paper is in a PDF file that ends with ".pdf",
the title of the paper appears in a large font on top of the first page,
the authors of the paper are listed right below the title on a separate line, and
there's a bibliography section titled, e.g., "References" or "Bibliography" at the
end.
• That's it! Our search robots should normally find your paper and include it
in Google Scholar within several weeks.
• If it doesn't work, you could either (1) read more detailed technical
guidelines in this documentation or (2) check if your local institutional
repository is already configured for indexing in Google Scholar, and upload
your papers there.
http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/inclusion.html
Journals: Open Access
• Free access to articles over the internet
• Financed by third parties or by author fees
• Many journals have a mixed model of open
access
• List of potentially predatory open access
journals:
– http://scholarlyoa.com/individual-journals/
– Compiled by Jeffrey Beall, Associate Professor, Auraria
Library, University of Colorado Denver
Journals: Epub
• Shift from paper to electronic publishing
• Web only vs. electronic
• Epub ahead of print allows earlier access to
articles
Journals: Supplements
• Collections of papers that deal with related
issues or topics
• Published as a separate issue of the journal or
as part of a regular issue
• Often funded by sources other than the
journal’s publisher
http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/publishing-and-editorialissues/supplements-theme-issues-and-special-series.html
Examples
• Things gone wrong
• Things gone right
Summary
1. Identify ‘the end’ for each paper
2. Select format
3. Select target meeting or journal