Sometimes it is difficult to decide on the best journal match for your manuscript. Aside from your own skills at researching journals, there is now software available to help you look at ways to find a good fit for your article or …Continue Reading
Category: Impact
Impact and Visibility Services at USF Libraries
At USF Libraries, we offer impact and visibility services for USF Faculty. Liaison librarians are available for consultations to assist you with increasing your scholarly impact. From creating author profiles to selecting journals, we offer services to help analyze metrics that can …Continue Reading
What is an ORCID iD and why do I need one?
ORCID is an open, non-profit, publisher-agnostic community-based effort to provide a registry of unique researcher identifiers as well as a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. ORCID, which stands for “open researcher and contributor identifier”, is unique in its ability …Continue Reading
Featured Workshop: Finding a Home for Your Manuscript
This online workshop on Thursday, October 20th, from 2-3 PM, is designed to show scholars how to research journals, their scope and rankings in order to find a good fit for their manuscripts. By the end of this workshop you will be …Continue Reading
Combatting Predatory Academic Journals and Conferences IAP Report
As you know, predatory journals, publishers and conferences are part of the academic publishing landscape. The Combatting Predatory Academic Journals and Conferences Report, led by an independent working group of international experts nominated by academies around the world, sets out to describe …Continue Reading
Workshop: Developing and Maintaining Academic Profiles
Join us on Thursday, September 23rd from 5-6 PM for a workshop about developing and maintaining author profiles. Managing your scholarly profiles on the task is an ever-changing world of resources and platforms, but if you focus your efforts there is a …Continue Reading
Promotion and Tenure Application Resources and Services at the USF Libraries
If you are applying for promotion and/or tenure, you likely already know how much effort and data gathering is required. To assist with this process, the USF Libraries have a variety of online resources and expert services to help guide the way. …Continue Reading
Citation Gecko
Citation Gecko is a new free online app that helps you find the most relevant papers to your research and gives you a “complete sense of the research landscape.” You start from a small set of seed papers that define an …Continue Reading
Journal Rankings and Impact Factors
https://youtu.be/wvxB8pnBPr0 The USF Libraries has created a short tutorial on resources for looking up metrics that determine journal rankings for researchers. If you need in-depth assistance, contact your liaison librarian. The tutorial features three main tools for determining journal rankings: InCites Journal …Continue Reading