Get Published: Task Six: Post and Promote Your Work!

So you’ve spent a lot of time researching, writing, and publishing your scholarship.  Wouldn’t it be nice if someone read it?  The final task of Hunter Library's Get Published series focuses on posting your work to the institutional repository (NC DOCKS), which is as easy as sending an email, and the various methods for promoting your work.

http://researchguides.wcu.edu/getpublished/promote

Get Published, Task 5: Negotiate Your Author Rights

When your submission is accepted for publication, there are two things to do right away: 1) Celebrate! 2) Negotiate your rights as the author.  Task 5 will help you work with your publisher to retain your author rights. The guide will explain why this is important and will provide specific instructions (and a sample form) for adding a copyright addendum to your contract.

http://researchguides.wcu.edu/getpublished/authorrights

Get Published, Task Two: Consider Open Access Publishing

Task 2 of Hunter Library’s “Get Published”series is posted here. This week’s task invites you to consider Open Access—a great way to make your work widely available to all researchers. The guide also introduces you to the various methods for Open Access publishing and clears up some of the misconceptions surrounding Open Access. http://researchguides.wcu.edu/getpublished/OA

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Get Published! HL's New DIY Web Series

Follow Hunter Library’s series of do-it-yourself, self-paced tasks to:

·         find places to publish your scholarly work, including open access venues,

·         write queries to publishers,

·         negotiate your rights as an author, and

·         avoid “predatory” publishers.  

Every week or so, there will be a new task, with accompanying information, to walk you through the process of getting published.  

Start with Task #1, Find The Right Journal or Book Publisher for You.

To participate throughout the summer, you can sign up to be notified when a new task is available, visit this page at your convenience, or look for new tasks to appear on our News Blog, Twitter feed, or Facebook page.

Open Access Week : A Panel Discussion

The Coulter Faculty Commons and Hunter Library are pleased to announce that we will co-host a panel discussion on the challenges and opportunities of open-access publishing as a part of international Open Access Week.

As the Web site states, “Open Access” to information – the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need – has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry are conducted. It has direct and widespread implications for academia, medicine, science, industry, and for society as a whole.” How this potential might, or might not, play out at WCU is the topic of our discussion.

Please join us on Wednesday, October 26 at 11 a.m. in the UC Multipurpose Room as Associate Provost Mark Lord leads a lively discussion with representatives from across the academic colleges.

For more information on open access week and events taking place elsewhere (including free Webinars), visit www.openaccessweek.org.