LibGuides: Publishing Options and Opportunities: Getting Started

Publishing Your Research

Congratulations, you've completed your research, wrote it up, and now you're ready to publish!

Understand your rights as an author
Evaluation tools and criteria to choose a journal or other publishing platforms
Publish an Open Access journal article, book, educational resource or other digital scholarship

This guide serves as an introduction to these publishing topics and can be helpful for any researcher whether you're a student publishing their first paper or an established researcher.

You may also find guides on measuring research impact, reputation management, and ORCiDuseful.

Publishing Discounts for UC Authors

Publication Ethics & Standards

Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
COPE Core Practices
Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing
These principles form the basis of the criteria by which suitability for membership is assessed by COPE, DOAJ and OASPA, and part of the criteria on which membership applications are evaluated by WAME
Publishing best practice and basic standards for inclusion
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Open Access Publishing Resources
Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA)
Policies for Medical Journal Editors
Prepared by the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) Ethics and Policy Committee.

An Ethical Framework

An Ethical Framework for Library Publishing

Table of Contents

Accessibility Case Studies for Scholarly Communication Librarians and Practitioners
A Short Guide to Ethical Editing for New Editors
COPE Guidelines Version 3 (2019)
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Scholarly Communication
The Office of Scholarly Communication at the University of California seeks to provide resources to help the academic publishing community navigate the complexities of an ever-evolving landscape for sharing and publishing scholarly research.

OA Journal Publishing Toolkit

See the toolkit for guidance on:

getting started
running a journal
indexing
staffing
policies
infrastructure

Publishing Options and Opportunities

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