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MNS 191: Seminar in Marine Science: Scientific Communication

Taught every spring. Held at the Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas; taught virtually. Recent advances in the marine sciences, discussed by students, faculty and staff members, and guest lecturers. Topics to be announced. Must be taken twice to ful

Publishing & Open Science

Journals, Publishing & Open Science

Journal metrics can help you get a sense of how a journal stacks up against other journals in the field. These numbers can vary wildly between disciplines and sub-disciplines, so don't compare apples and oranges!

Impact Factors (generated from Web of Science citation data)

h5-index (generated from Google Scholar citation data)

SJR Indictors (generated from Scopus citation data)

 

Once your article has been accepted, you'll be asked to sign an author agreement with the publishing journal. Pay attention to the details and make sure to take advantage of any opportunities you have to make some version of your work open to as wide an audience as possible. 

Jisc Open Policy Finder lets you search for a journal, publisher or funder and to see their standard policies concerning publication and data sharing beyond the paywalled journal site.

Open Access (OA) is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment. Open Access ensures that anyone can access and use these results—to turn ideas into industries and breakthroughs into better lives. - definition from SPARC 

UT Libraries participates in many OA memberships and programs that provide Author Processing Charge discounts or waivers for publishing your article openly on the publishers journal sites. 

We also support scholars in depositing post-prints, or author's accepted manuscripts, in our institutional repository, Texas ScholarWorks (TSW). Materials deposited in TSW will appear in Goole Scholar results by following the "All versions" link under the result for the formal publication. These versions allow people from around the world to access your work outside of publisher paywalls.

For more about OA publishing, check out our Open Access at UT Austin LibGuide!

Why share your data?

  • Increase your impact. Data are increasingly recognized as a scholarly product in their own right. Making them discoverable, available, and citable can increase the visibility and impact of your work. Several studies have suggested that papers that share data are cited more frequently (e.g., Piwowar et al., 2007 [PLOS ONE]; Christensen et al., 2019 [PLOS ONE]; Colavizza et al., 2020 [PLOS ONE])
  • Move science forward. Reproducibility is a cornerstone of scientific inquiry. By making your data openly available and usable, you allow other researchers to verify your results and build on them. This helps reduce fraud, adds to a global pool of scientific knowledge, and increases confidence in the research process.
  • It’s sometimes required. Many journals are requiring a Data Availability Statement or Data Archiving Policy as a prerequisite for publication, and many funders are requiring Data Management (and Sharing) Plans (DM[S]Ps) that provide details on how data will be shared as part of the grant application process. These vary according to funder/publisher, but may require that you submit supporting data, deposit your data in a repository for which you provide a persistent link, or provide clear access guidelines when data cannot be shared publicly.

Where to share your data?

  • Texas Data Repository (TDR) is a multi-institutional data repository hosted by the Texas Digital Library (TDL). TDR is a long-term solution for the preservation and dissemination of UT’s research data and meets the criteria for publisher and funder data sharing requirements. Benefits of publishing data in TDR include:
    • Preservation of published datasets for a minimum of ten years.
    • Free to use for faculty, staff, and students at UT Austin.
    • Published datasets are assigned Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs), are publicly accessible, and are free to access and download.
    • Published datasets can be versioned, while maintaining the same DOI and retaining previous copies of the deposit.
    • Direct, personalized support from library staff.
  • Disciplinary Repositories are a great option too, particularly when there is a repository that has become a "go to" spot for data around certain topics or fields.
  • Federal Repositories are sometimes the best option for big data that was gathered through federal research grants.

 

Author Identity Tools

ORCID stands for Online Research Contributor iD. It provides a non-proprietary persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher, even those with very similar names, and ensures that your work is recognized.

Getting Started

1. Sign up on ORCID's website with your UT EID

- Visit https://orcid.org/signin

- Choose Sign in through your institution, enter "University of Texas at Austin" and log in with your UT EID;

- You can either link your EID with an existing account or register for a new ORCID.

2. Add your information: Once you've created an ORCID iD, it's easy to add your scholarly works to your ORCID record, enable automatic updates, and delegate management of your record to someone else.

3. Use your ORCID: Include your ORCID iD on your webpage, when you submit publications, apply for grants, and in any research workflow to ensure you get credit for your work.

Tips

  • Make your works public. This maximizes the potential for integration of your ORCID iD into other systems, and automatic updating of databases to attach your iD to your works.
  • Add at least some personal information (brief bio, education and/or employment) to your ORCID record, and make it public. This can help others distinguish you from people with the same name if they don't know your ORCID iD.
  • Add name variants, if you have published under other names or variations of your name.

Google Scholar Profiles provide a simple way for authors to showcase their academic publications. You can check who is citing your articles, graph citations over time, and compute several citation metrics. You can also make your profile public, so that it may appear in Google Scholar results when people search for your name.

Directions for setting up your profile

Directions for keeping your profile updated 

SciENcv is a tool for the creation of biographical sketches during the grant application process. It is a growing requirement to use a SciENcv created biosketch for government grants across agencies. 

Examples of agencies requiring or recommending the use of SciENcv:

  • NSF
  • NIH
  • DoE, Office of Science

For more information and assistance, visit our SciENcv LibGuide

Subjects: Marine Science

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