Scholarly Communication
Scholarly communication refers to how scholars disseminate their research. This page includes several resources on scholarly communication, including research impact. Several are specific to the health sciences, but many are relevant across disciplines.
The 2024 NIH Public Access Policy requires that NIH-funded research be made publicly available in PubMed Central. Some libraries provide education or support to researchers on meeting policy requirements to researchers.
The ACRL Scholarly Communication Toolkit provides an introduction to and resources related to scholarly communication issues, including publishing economics, journal evaluation, library publishing, copyright, open access policies, repositories, and AI and scholarly communication.
A tool to help researchers evaluate journals and avoid submitting to predatory or questionable outlets.
Webinar on choosing journals from the UK Medical Center Library.
Inventory of health sciences journals from library-based publishers. Learn more about library publishing at the Library Publishing Coalition.
Comprehensive list of health sciences journals that accept case reports (with and without APCs).
Webinar from the UK Medical Center Library on options for digital publishing projects.
Where to Publish
Research Impact
ORCID provides free, unique, persistent identifiers to researchers to help them keep their scholarly activities organized and discoverable.
Webinar on researcher online profiles from the UK Medical Center Library.
Research Impact Metrics
Introduction to bibliometrics measures used in research assessment from the ALA's Library Technology Reports.
LibGuide from the NOAA Library outlining multiple metrics and evaluation methods in detail.
Policy document on the responsible use of research metrics. (No method is perfect or without controversy!)
Altmetrics
There is growing interest in demonstrating the impact of scholarship outside traditional academic metrics. Tools to help with this include Altmetric and PlumX Metrics.