Category: Impact

Impact and Visibility Services at USF Libraries

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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?

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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

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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

Library Workshops for Researchers

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The library is offering a myriad of workshop choices for researchers in the month of September. Topics such as journal metrics and rankings for the sciences, using Trello, a tool for managing research projects, author research profiles, and more.

Combatting Predatory Academic Journals and Conferences IAP Report

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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

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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

Citation Gecko

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  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

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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