1. Gwyn P. Williams and Kim Kindrew Pizza Seminar, September 18, 2013
Disseminating your Science - and how your publications are used beyond this
Gwyn P. Williams and Kim Kindrew
Jefferson Lab
Pizza Seminar, September 18, 2013

2. Publishing
Why? - Gwyn
How? - Kim 2

3. Why?
Several reasons:
Your work was supported by the public, so the public domain deserves access.
It’s the productivity metric for the laboratory that keeps it funded – no output, no reason to exist.
It’s the JLab law!
But forget about the rules, the public, the lab, it’s critical for your career, so should be self-motivating!! 3

4. Why is it important for your career?
It’s so you can distinguish yourself
You will need to do this in order to get the job that you will want.
So, how do you think this happens?
Number of publications?
Number of good publications?
How can we judge this? 4

5. How you will be judged – one metric, but important
The h-index
You will need to do this in order to get the job that you will want.
What is it?? 5

6. How you will be judged – one metric, but important
The h-index is an index that attempts to measure both the productivity and impact of the published work of a scientist or scholar.
A scientist has index h if h of his/her Np papers have at least h citations each, and the other (Np − h) papers have no more than h citations each. 6

7. How do we find our h-index?
In nuclear physics go to
In general go to scholar.google.com
If your library subscribes, then the ultimate source is the Web of Science, now called the Web of Knowledge. 7

13. How? 13

14. Why?
Several reasons:
Your work was supported by the public, so the public domain deserves access.
It’s the productivity metric for the laboratory that keeps it funded – no output, no reason to exist.
It’s the JLab law!
But forget about the rules, the public, the lab, it’s critical for your career, so should be self-motivating!! 14

15. JLAB Policy
All professional publications shall be reviewed and cleared by the Laboratory Director before they are sent outside the Laboratory.
The purpose of this review is to
inform management of information being disseminated concerning the Laboratory
ensure that the materials reflect creditably on the Laboratory
identify any special problems related to patentable material or copyright issues.
I prefer the kinder, gentler word, Policy.
Here is the policy.
A professional publication is defined as any professional work suitable for journal or conference publication that is distributed to the public –scientific and at large. A professional publication can be in any format or media which identifies the author as an employee of JSA/ Jefferson Lab, or which is based in whole or in part on work performed as a JSA/Jefferson Lab employee or using JSA/Jefferson Lab facilities. (Note that Users sign an agreement to provide Jefferson Lab with professional publications produced as a result of their work here)
So … what’s the big deal? Gwyn mentioned it - As a DOE scientific laboratory, our product is knowledge. We share that knowledge through professional papers. That is one very important way the success of Jefferson Lab is measured, and it impacts our funding. 15

16. Contract Acknowledgment Notice
Notice: This manuscript has been authored by Jefferson Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC05-06OR23177 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non- exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes.
According to the JSA contract with DOE, this notice is to appear on page one of each manuscript; however, if a publisher does not permit the notice to appear on page one, please include it in the acknowledgments of your manuscript. When possible, please use the full notice as specified in the JSA contract. When limited in terms of characters allowed, please use the shortened version.
70 words
422 characters (no spaces)
491 characters (with spaces)

17. How to use the JLAB Publications System
Click on the “Publications” Tab.
Log in.
Submit paper.
Once published, edit paper.
Search features.
“My Papers” features. 17

18. Other resources: arXiv.org
Highly-automated electronic archive and distribution server for research articles.
Covered areas include physics, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear sciences, quantitative biology and statistics.
maintained and operated by the Cornell University Library with guidance
arXiv Scientific Advisory Board
arXiv Sustainability Advisory Group
numerous subject moderators
Electronic archive and distribution server for research articles in scientific and mathematical fields, and moderated and operated by the Cornell University Library with guidance from a scientific advisory board, sustainability advisory group and numerous subject moderators.

19. Other resources: arXiv.org
If you’re wondering why you should submit your preprints to the eprint arxiv, 875,070 submissions in 22 years should convince you that there are many who think it’s a smart way to distribute professional manuscripts.

20. Other resources: arXiv.org
If you’re still not convinced, server connections in the first nine hours yesterday not including local and administrative connections exceeded 983,000

21. Other resources: inspirehep.net
“next-generation High Energy Physics (HEP) information system”
Combines the successful SPIRES database content, curated at DESY, Fermilab and SLAC, with the Invenio digital library technology developed at CERN.
Run by a collaboration of the four labs, and interacts closely with HEP publishers
arXiv.org
NASA-ADS (Astrophysics Data System)
PDG (Particle Data Group – LBL)
HEPDATA (Durham HepData Project)
Other information resources
Run by a collaboration of DESY, SLAC, Fermilab, and CERN
Harvests record data from numerous sources such as the SPIRES database, eprint arxiv, NASA Astrophysics Data System, Particle Data Group, and the Durham HepData Project.

22. Other resources

23. Other resources
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