1. Joining the Conversation Your Voice, Their Voice Image from http://www.cisco.edu

2. You’ve just walked into a fascinating, heated discussion in your area of interest. What would you do? Image from http://vimeo.com/50075389

3. “The ultimate goal of scholars is to share their research with other scholars by joining the academic conversation in their field of study and contributing their findings to the knowledge pool. “ Capella University http://www.capella.edu/writingcenter/academicPublishing.aspx http://www.capella.edu/writingcenter/academicPublishing.aspx

4. Start Here to Add Your Voice “… before publishing anything, you will need to consider how this publication will position you for your future aspirations and activities.” -- Richard Reis, Stanford Consider collaborating with professor or other graduate student

5. Why publish or present? “The reasons to publish are obvious:  to increase your academic profile,  to put your work before your peers,  to network with other scholars,  and most of all to make yourself more competitive in this dire academic job market. Anything to set you apart from the hundreds of other under-employed scholars is critical.” Richard Reis, Stanford

6. Seminar paper  Frame research question  Conduct literature review  Offer new data based on field research

7. Conference paper / Poster session  Present – see and be seen!  Get professional feedback  Networking

8. Publishing an Article  Select journal  Submit to one at a time  May take 6-12 months  Expect to make revisions based on peer review

9. What does Copyright protect? ©  reproduce  prepare derivative works  distribute copies  perform  display

10. Copyright … Yours! Many journals require authors to sign away their copyright, including archiving rights. Image from Association of Research Libraries Example: “Upon acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to complete a 'Journal Publishing Agreement'.” Elsevier

11. Some Rights Reserved Images from Wikipedia (Copyleft), Creative Commons, and fotor.com

12. Open Access  Beall's List of Predatory, Open- Access Publishers Beall's List of Predatory, Open- Access Publishers Beall's List of Predatory, Open- Access Publishers http://scholarlyoa.com http://scholarlyoa.com

13. Initial call for papers !!  SLMS encourages manuscripts from all disciplines where student-initiated research is utilized as a learning tool.

14. Plagiarism @ Graduate Level  Plagiarism: Using other people’s words and ideas without clearly acknowledging the source of the information  http://library.sjsu.edu/vi deo/plagiarism- graduate-level http://library.sjsu.edu/vi deo/plagiarism- graduate-level http://library.sjsu.edu/vi deo/plagiarism- graduate-level

15. Citing Sources Post- Baccalaureate ProgramAPA Chicago /TurabianOther BiologyX CSE BusinessXXHarvard Chemistry ACS Computer Science IEEE EducationX

16. John Spoor Broome Library  Librarians available!  Research assistance  Citation help Thank you! Margaret Driscoll, MLIS