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Scholarly Communications at Georgia Southern University

Resources and services to support faculty and graduate students' scholarly work from conception to publication and promotion

Scholarly Communications Newsletter - October/November 2024

Resource Update

Cabell's Journalytics Academic Is Now Available

The University Libraries are pleased to announce that we have restored access to Cabell's Journalytics Academic (formerly Cabell's "Whitelist" and "Predatory Reports"). Journalytics Academic was previously supported by GALILEO and is now supported by the Libraries.

Journalytics Academic is your complete source for journal info, evaluation metrics, and submission details. This database collects relevant information about medical and academic journals in order to help research professionals. Through continued partnerships with major academic publishers, journal editors, scholarly societies, accreditation agencies, and other independent databases, Journalytics Academic provides accurate, up-to-date information about academic journals to universities worldwide.

Journalytics Academic gives decision data, benchmarks and context for thousands of reputable academic journals. This database is designed for academia and covers journals of all sizes and specialties from every field. More information about Journalytics Academic can be found here. See also Cabell's User Guide.

The Cabell's website has been extensively updated, so the University Libraries will be offering workshops through the Faculty Center this November to familiarize faculty with the new interface. Registration links can be found on the Faculty Center's Workshops Calendar or our Scholarly Communications workshops page.

Upcoming Workshops

Upcoming Workshops in October & November

The Metaliteracy: Scholarly Communications (MSC) badge track assists faculty and graduate students with building knowledge of and skills in Scholarly Communications. Workshops will cover topics throughout the research and publication lifecycle: author identifiers and scholarly profiles; author metrics and impact; intellectual property; author rights & scholarly publication; and data management planning and curation services. Faculty can earn a digital badge by completing 4 or more workshops in this track.

Most workshops will be offered as synchronous Zoom sessions. You may register on the Faculty Center's Training Page or follow the links below:

Many funding agencies and publishers require that research data be made publicly available as a condition of funding or publication. In this workshop, we will discuss the basics of data management planning, sharing, and archiving with emphasis on attendee's current research. We will look at example datasets and discuss strategies for preparing and licensing data for open access.

Learning outcomes: Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be  able to: 1) Describe current and developing trends in research data management planning and sharing in the context of grant funding and publication, 2) analyze and evaluate example data management plans and adapt them to their own research, and 3) describe basic practices for preparing and licensing data for open access.

SciENcv is an electronic system that helps researchers organize and update biographical information for federal research applications. Grant applicants are now required to use SciENcv by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) for all applications. In this workshop, we cover the basics of using SciENcv, including  but not limited to importing information from ORCID and Google Scholar and creating, editing, and sharing Biosketches. Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to  explain the purpose and use of SciENcv, as well as create a basic Biosketch.

Learning Outcomes:  This workshop is especially appropriate for researchers using SciENcv or creating Biosketches for the first time. Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:  Explain the purpose of SciENcv and how it is used in federal grant submissions; and Create and populate a basic SciENcv Biosketch.

In addition to GS Scholars and SciVal, participants in this workshop will become familiar with some tools and techniques to help distinguish their work from other researchers or scholars, and ways to  enhance the promotion and dissemination of their work to others in their fields. Some examples include: author  identifiers, and online portfolios or profiles, to create a unique research or professional identity. Participants in the workshop will create a Google Scholar profile and/or claim their ORCID ID, or enhance existing profiles.

Learning Outcomes: Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be  able to: Create  or edit an existing Google Scholar profile. Participants will be  able to: Claim their ORCID ID, or edit and enhance an existing ORCID record.

This search platform serves the academic community with key data on thousands of verified academic journals. An essential component of the Journalytics Academic suite is the new Predatory Reports integration. This feature provides information about 17,000+ predatory journals, ensuring users have the full rundown of opportunities and risks. This workshop will provide a walkthrough of the updated Journalytics Academic interface, with particular attention to Cabell's journal selection and predatory reports criteria.

Learning Outcomes: Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to: 1) search Cabell's curated journal database for top journals in their fields by title, discipline, ISSN, and other search terms;  2) view data on specific curated journals, including metrics such as Scite Index and altmetric data; and 3) view predatory reports on specific journals, with details on deceptive, fraudulent, or predatory journal publishing practices.

Tell Your Research Story with Georgia Southern Scholars

Update or Request Your GS Scholars Profile!


Screenshot of Georgia Southern Scholars profileThis summer, the GS Libraries launched an all-new scholarly profile platform for Georgia Southern faculty called Georgia Southern Scholars. GS Scholars is a public, searchable database that highlights the scholarly and creative activities of Georgia Southern University faculty. All tenure-track faculty at Georgia Southern University have a scholarly profile in GS Scholars, and all research-active non-tenure track faculty may request a profile if they want one.

All Georgia Southern faculty are invited to tell your story about your scholarly and creative activity by updating or requesting your GS Scholars profile. In addition to easily importing works from Scopus, arXiv, ORCID, PubMed, SSRN, and many other online sources, you have extensive control over what information appears on your profile and what you say about it.

Visit the Libraries’ GS Scholars guide to learn more and get started updating your profile. For help, contact the GS Commons Team at digitalcommons@georgiasouthern.edu. A team member will respond as soon as possible during regular business hours.

GS Authors Lounge Update for 2024

 

Georgia Southern University faculty, staff, students and alumni can continue to submit their works to be included in the Authors Lounge Collection using this Form or QR Code

 

Eligible works are published articles, books, book chapters, special issues of journals, substantive encyclopedia entries, poetry, musical compositions, audio recordings, film/video recordings, and art exhibition catalogs. 

If you would like to bypass the form and submit your list of publications or a CV, please send it to: 

Dr. Katia G. Karadjova (kkaradjova@georgiasouthern.edu), Associate Dean of Libraries for Research & Assessment.

News from ICPSR

News from ICPSR

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