Introduction
Welcome to the Scholarly Publishing guide.
Your research librarians have created this guide to highlight relevant information about the following:
- choosing publishers
- making your thesis into a book
- choosing a journal to publish in
- journal selection and evaluation tools
- open access publishing
- publisher resources
- UoM publishing support
- authorship
- author profiles
- checklists & resources
Common motivations to get published includes (amongst many others):
- To register the intellectual property of an idea
- To certify the quality of research and validity of findings
- To disseminate new research
- Preserving the scholarly record
- Authors gaining recognition as scholars
- Authors positioning their work in the research community
- Researchers providing a path for others to follow
Related guides
- Researcher Profiles, Identifiers and Social Networks subject guideIn preparation for publishing your research and before you start actively sending manuscripts for review, consider which Researcher Profiles you want to set up and maintain. For more information and support check out the Researcher Profiles, Identifiers, and Social Networks guide.
- Research Impact subject guideIf you made good and informed choices about where you want to concentrate your publication efforts you may want to track the impact of your research. For more information and support check out the Research Impact guide.
- Altmetrics subject guideContemporary scholarship provides access to a wider and more complete range of literature than that was previously available. The internet has made a profound difference to the way that scholars do scholarship. Communicating knowledge is very immediate and happens through new channels, leaving traces behind. These traces of attention to scholarly efforts are captured in many ways. For more information check out the Altmetrics guide.