What are your publication options?

Laura Happe & Meg Franklin

What’s ‘the end’ for this pub?

Posters

Podiums

Manuscripts

Level of Prestige

Formats

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Selecting the Right Conference

• Outcomes Research Conferences (some examples)

– International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research

– Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy– Society of Medical Decision Making– American Public Health Association– AcademyHealth

• Disease-specific conferences• Pharmacy conferences

Selecting the Right Journal

• Scope• Impact factor• Indexing• Open access• Epub ahead of print• Supplements

Journal: Scope

• Aims of the journal• Readership• Article types• Pull example articles

Journals: Impact Factor

• Measure of the number of citations for a journal; used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within it’s field– http://thomsonreuters.com/journal-citation-repor

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– http://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php – http://www.impactfactorsearch.com/

Journal: Indexing

• A proxy for a given journal’s quality• PubMed searches:

1. MEDLINE indexed journals• National Library of Medicine® (NLM®) journal citation

database including over 5,600 journals

2. PubMed Central• A free archive of biomedical and life sciences journal

literature at the NLM

3. NCBI Bookshelf• NLM books

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/dif_med_pub.html

Journal: IndexingGoogle Scholar• If you're an individual author, it works best to simply upload your paper to

your website, e.g., www.example.edu/~professor/jpdr2009.pdf; and add a link to it on your publications page, such as www.example.edu/~professor/publications.html. Make sure that: – the full text of your paper is in a PDF file that ends with ".pdf", – the title of the paper appears in a large font on top of the first page, – the authors of the paper are listed right below the title on a separate line, and – there's a bibliography section titled, e.g., "References" or "Bibliography" at the end.

• That's it! Our search robots should normally find your paper and include it in Google Scholar within several weeks.

• If it doesn't work, you could either (1) read more detailed technical guidelines in this documentation or (2) check if your local institutional repository is already configured for indexing in Google Scholar, and upload your papers there.

http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/inclusion.html

Journals: Open Access

• Free access to articles over the internet• Financed by third parties or by author fees• Many journals have a mixed model of open

access• List of potentially predatory open access

journals: – http://scholarlyoa.com/individual-journals/ – Compiled by Jeffrey Beall, Associate Professor, Auraria

Library, University of Colorado Denver

Journals: Epub

• Shift from paper to electronic publishing

• Web only vs. electronic

• Epub ahead of print allows earlier access to articles

Journals: Supplements

• Collections of papers that deal with related issues or topics

• Published as a separate issue of the journal or as part of a regular issue

• Often funded by sources other than the journal’s publisher

http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/publishing-and-editorial-issues/supplements-theme-issues-and-special-series.html

Examples

• Things gone wrong

• Things gone right

Summary

1. Identify ‘the end’ for each paper2. Select format3. Select target meeting or journal