Enhancing Your Impact
How can authors enhance the impact and visibility of their work? One way is to use the same variation of your name consistently throughout your academic career. If your name is a common name, add a...
View ArticleAuthors and Publication Agreements
Are you an author? Do you know what you are agreeing to when you sign a publication agreement form? To learn more about your rights as a an author, read: An Introduction to Publication Agreements for...
View ArticleMeasuring Impact Where it Matters: New PLoS Metrics
PloS recently initiated a program to provide metrics for individual articles published in all PLoS journals. This program focuses on the impact of the article itself instead of the journal and includes...
View ArticleWhat Rights Should Authors Retain?
Authors are encouraged to anticipate their future use of the work and retain any or all of the rights they may need to achieve their academic and professional goals. Authors may want to retain rights...
View ArticleAn Introduction to Publication Agreements for Authors by Timothy Armstrong
Interesting reading on author rights by Timothy Armstrong. An excerpt follows: There are good reasons to retain your copyright rather than assigning it to the publisher. Why might you prefer this? •...
View ArticleCopyright Law and Your Rights as an Author
The Washington University Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and General Counsel along with the Danforth Campus Libraries and the Becker Medical Library are pleased to present, Copyright Law and...
View ArticleWashington University Copyright Addendum Form Revised
The Washington University Copyright Addendum form has been revised to allow for a completed addendum in PDF to be sent via email to the author. The WU Addendum allows authors to select from various...
View ArticleWays to Use Journal Articles Published by Elsevier: A Practical Guide
Elsevier issued a guidance document, Ways to Use Journal Articles Published by Elsevier: A Practical Guide, that outlines the rights of authors who publish in journals published by Elsevier.
View Article“Clinicians and researchers can no longer live in blissful ignorance of...
Interesting commentary in NEJM: Copyright and Open Access at the Bedside. John C. Newman and Robin Feldman. N Engl J Med 2011; 365:2447-2449. December 29, 2011.
View ArticleOpen Access Journals: Impact and Quality
Bjork and Solomon. Open access versus subscription journals: a comparison of scientific impact. BMC Medicine 2012, 10:73 doi:10.1186/1741-7015-10-73. “Our results indicate that OA journals indexed in...
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