Are you ready to get read? Dr. Max Haring - March 2016 TU Delft Library seminar

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1 Are you ready to get read? Dr. Max Haring - March 2016 TU Delft Library seminar

2 1 Are you ready to get read? Optimize your own publishing experience and improve your impact! About Springer Nature Choosing the right journal What can you do? Be Open!

3 2 Springer Nature is one of the world s leading global research, educational and professional publishers, the world s largest academic book publisher, publisher of the world s most influential journals and a pioneer in the field of open research.

4 3 About me Dr. ir. Max Haring Executive Editor MSc in cell biology (Wageningen UR) PhD in biochemistry (University of Amsterdam) 9 years of publishing experience 2012: launched SpringerPlus Springer s first OA journal for research in all disciplines 2015: launched Transfer Desk A new service for authors!

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7 6 Journal selection What is the main focus of your work? What is the type of publication? research, review, method, data Who will be interested? How significant are your results? Where have similar articles been published? who would be appropriate peer reviewers Open Access options? Anything else? OA mandates, public outreach, audience beyond academia ESM/Figshare, altmetrics, DOI, Post-pub comments thinkchecksubmit.org

8 7 Common reasons for rejection (by editors and reviewers) From: Ali J. Manuscript rejection: Causes and remedies. J Young Pharmacists. Wolters Kluwer Health DOI / Lack of novelty, originality, or necessity of the study Unimportant and irrelevant subject matter Lack of interpretation or focus Flaws in methodology, interpretation of data, or statistics Presentation or formatting Reviewers' field of knowledge Inappropriateness for the journal Journals' popularity and priority given to the manuscript by the editor

9 8 Transfer Desk - Helps authors get published A new manuscript submission service at Springer Nature: Access to all journals at Springer, BMC and NPG Never worry about journal requirements again! Select by scope, impact or Open Access options Re-use available reviews: lower reviewer burden & faster decisions Guarantee: we will always find a suitable journal! How to get this service? 1. Transfers are offered Springer journal EiCs, when rejected for: Out of scope Good quality but not enough interest or novelty 2. Manuscript can be submitted directly to the Transfer Desk 3. Through our Partnership with Peerage-Of-Science transferdesk@springer.com

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11 10 Mega journals: the new kids Choosing a journal is difficult: Open access & data mandates Peer-review models, Article types Aims & Scope are often ambiguous There are many journals available: WOS: journals Scopus: journals DOAJ: journals Springer Nature: journals Mega journals: Open Access :easy compliance with OA mandates Broad scope Rejection only for quality of science Portable peer-review Fast decisions Convenient & predictable Bjork (2015), PeerJ, DOI /peerj.981

12 11 Mega journals at Springer Nature Scope: Natural sciences Impact Factor: Highly selective Scope: Natural sciences Impact Factor: Scope: Human and Social Sciences Launched in 2015 Scope: Physics Impact factor: Subscription journal Scope: Chemistry and material science Impact Factor: Scope: All disciplines Launched in 2012 First Impact Factor in 2016! Scope: Biology and medicine Launched in 2008

13 12 SpringerPlus: one journal for all research Peer-reviewed journal, Open Access, Online Only Independent international editorial board High quality: acceptance rate 50% First Impact Factor in 2016! For all Disciplines in STEM and HSS Never out of scope! No focus on impact Accepts low-cited work Publish regional studies internationally Share all your data and findings! Flexible, efficient and predictable APC discounts and waivers available:

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15 14 Make your title Google-proof!

16 15 Add metadata: make your research findable! Research metadata Keywords Species, DNA/proteins, methods Researcher metadata Name, institute, country Funding sources Registrations: clinical trials, chemicals, sequences, computer code etc. Publication metadata Library catalogue Content retrieval

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18 What you can do: be open! 17

19 18 Open Access Publishing Free to read Free to re-use - Easier to find & use relevant literature - Increases the visibility, readership and impact of author s works - Creates new ways of use - Enhances interdisciplinary research - Accelerates the pace of research, discovery and innovation

20 19 What else can be open? Peer-review Reviewers name and comments are available Post-publication Open Peer-review / comments Manuscripts Collaborative writing Pre-publication history Revisions and comments Data Research output, images, algorithms, software code, statistics, Metrics Usage, citations (IF, H-index), interaction (tweets, likes, mentions, news)

21 20 Open writing Use collaborative writing tools Articles Posters Thesis Use pre-print servers to discuss experiments to share manuscripts and revisions Get pre-submission peer-review

22 21 Open Data! Publish your data! Linked to journal article Data with its own DOI Citable Impact calculation Data mandates US: NHF, NIH, NASA, CDC EU: Horizon 2020, Wellcome Trust Publish with DOI!

23 22 How to make your data open? Collecting data Mind the meta-data! Use open formats, find appropriate reporting standard Make your data available Data repository or data journal? Make it open access -> encourage reuse DOI and digital preservation Link data to your publications Upload, manage, submit, cite, share!

24 23 Why open data? Why cite the article? Leblanc et al. SpringerPlus (2015) 4:557 DOI /s when you can cite the fact! DOI for facts/quotes/data points Make articles machine readable Science Ontologies Shows relationships

25 24 What else? Open metrics! Traditional metrics are closed Altmetrics* are open! *Lin, J. & Fenner, M. (2013). Altmetrics in evolution: Defining and redefining the ontology of article-level metrics. Information Standards Quarterly, 25(2),

26 25 Post-publication discussion & metrics Scientific research can be found in: Scholarly Publications: Journal articles, book chapters Databases (Figshare, SwissProt) Repository archives (Arxiv) Non-scholarly publications: Blogs, Social Media News items, Company pages Wikipedia Post-publication discussion platforms: Faculty of 1000 Mendeley, ResearchGate, Academia.edu, Papers Other: Conference abstracts, posters Which made the most IMPACT?

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28 27 Optimize your own publishing experience and improve your impact! Chose the best place to publish Journal Aims & Scope Rejection is not the end Google-proof your paper! SEO your title Add keywords & metadata Be Open! Publish OA Find collaborations Share your data Use open metrics

29 28 Thank you!