1. Research and Rights
Jackie Werner, Scholarly Communications and Research Librarian

2. ORCiD

3. Persistent Author Identifier

4. Persistent Author Identifier

5. Author Rights

6. When you publish an article…
Who has copyright for your work?
Depends on what agreement you sign with the publisher
Two articles by Dr. Zhang – BMC Medical Genetics

7. When you publish an article…
Who has copyright for your work?
Cancer Letters

8. What does this mean? Only the copyright holder can…
Make copies of the work
Publicly display the work
Distribute copies of the work

9. What does this mean? Only the copyright holder can…
Make copies of the work
Publicly display the work
Distribute copies of the work
Make derivative works
Control how the work is used

10. Know Your Rights
SHERPA/Romeo

11. Know Your Rights
SHERPA/Romeo
Cancer Letters -

12. Know Your Rights
SHERPA/Romeo
Publisher Websites
Cancer Letters -

13. Negotiate Your Rights SPARC Author Addendum

14. Negotiate Your Rights SPARC Author Addendum
Keep your preprint and postprint

15. Negotiate Your Rights SPARC Author Addendum
Keep your preprint and postprint
Consider publishing open access

16. Open Access

17. What is an open access journal?
Scholarly research available to all
Author retains copyright
Comparable to non-open journals
Many require author fees to publish
Examples: BioMed Central, PLoS, arXiv
Two major types of OA: providing already-published research for free (digital commons), journal where all or some papers are available for everyone from the beginning
Usually published under Creative Commons license – author retains copyright, legal binding of how others can use it
Need to make money for infrastructure – author fee DOES NOT MEAN IT’S NOT LEGIT
Library pays author fees for BioMed Central, PLoS One – look for money from grants, departments, library

18. What’s the downside?

19. Predatory journals
Designed to scam money from scholars by publishing in journals that are not academically sound
Ex. Journals that claim they provide peer review but don’t actually, journals that have no assurance of quality so publication won’t count for anything, journals that have no guarantee of existing in a few months

20. https://www. sciencemag

21. How to avoid them?

22. Research First Directory of Open Access Journals
List of verified legit OA journals w/information
Run by volunteers, bad ones sometimes slip through (or journals pass into new management)

23. Research First
Directory of Open Access Journals
Scopus

24. Research First
Directory of Open Access Journals
Scopus

25. Research First Directory of Open Access Journals Scopus Google
‘[journal name]/[publisher name] predatory’, ‘journal name’ Beall’s list – was repository of predatory journals, mirrors still up but not officially updated

26. Research First Directory of Open Access Journals Scopus Google
Library Memberships
High-quality journals and the library pays fees!

27. Look for Red Flags

28. Peer Review Process Should include information on peer-review process
This only mention of peer review on journal website

29. Peer Review Process
Good example of peer review description – v. detailed

30. Unsolicited Emails Many unsolicited emails from predatory journals
If it sounds too good to be true, it is!

31. Broad or Bizarre Scopes
Not 100% (Science and Nature exist), but too-broad or strange scope covers too much to be useful (trying to get more money from authors in many fields)

32. Rapid Publication
Peer review needs time – if they claim it’s too quick, not really doing peer review
Sounds too good to be true, it is

33. Rapid Publication
More reasonable peer review times – DOAJ lists if time is important

34. Location Mismatch
Title doesn’t match location of editors/publishers - publisher trying to deceive

35. Fake Indices
Citing indices you’ve never heard of—fake factors that don’t mean anything!

36. Bad Contact Information
Unprofessional addresses like gmail or Hotmail red flag

37. Unprofessional Website
Does the website have typos? Does it make sense?

38. Unprofessional Website
Does website contradict itself?

39. Hidden Fees
Does page not give value of processing fees?

40. Hidden Fees
Good – journal explains exact fees

41. Paper Quality Look at published papers—are they good?
Pictured: entire review article

42. Paper Quality
Pictured: published article that makes much more sense

43. When in doubt…

44. https://libguides.pcom.edu/research
Ask the library!