Advanced Things to Know About Publishing

Understanding your rights as an author, reviewing your research’s impact, and tracking your publications is part of maintaining your scholarly identity. Such maintenance boosts the discoverability of your work even before it goes to press.

Copyright

1. Open Access (OA): Without subscription fees limiting access to scholarly literature, people can "read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles". Scientists without a budget for subscriptions can freely access important scientific information, which advances the public understanding of science and speeds the pace of scientific discovery. Some commonly used terms include:
   • Green OA: archiving, such as adding works to a repository, typically after an embargo period. An example is the NIH Public Access Policy.
   • Gold OA: for a significant author fee, articles are made freely and permanently accessible online to everyone immediately after publication.
   • Hybrid OA: choose between subscription access for your article for free or open access for an author fee.
2. Author’s Rights: SPARC Author Addendum is a legal instrument that modifies the publisher’s agreement and allows you to keep key rights to your articles. This free resource was created in partnership with Creative Commons and Science Commons.

Establish your Author Identity & Impact

1. OrcID: Academic articles are indexed in different databases and sometimes published under slightly different versions of a researcher's name. Therefore, an online bibliography of an entire scholar's output may not be easily available for other scholars and funders to view. Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) is an initiative to disambiguate authors of scholarly works through unique, persistent identifiers.
2. Web of Science (WoS): Research impact is a measure of the influence of your scholarly work. It measures the impact your research makes on future scientific advances and clinical practice. WoS provides author impact beam plots, H-Index, sum of times cited, and Citation Report Analysis.

For assistance with any of these activities and tools, please contact the Geisinger Health Sciences Library at hsl@geisinger.edu.