1. Susan Tudin susan_tudin@carleton.ca 520-2600 ext. 2018 Library Subject Specialist for Geography, Environmental Studies and Earth Sciences

2.  Need to get your work/ideas noticed  Need to get a job  Need to have published articles in journals for promotion and tenure

3.  Begin with: Ulrich’s Periodical Directory  Located at Research Help Desk  Call number is AP1 BIBL. U422

4.  Impact factors are a measure of a journal’s significance in a particular discipline  Based on a calculation of current year citations over a 2 year period

5.  Established journal’s significance  Hiring, promotion & tenure

6.  Journal Citation Reports  Part of Web of Science (Knowledge)  Searchable by Subject or Title

8.  Papersinvited Papersinvited  COS Funding Opportunities COS Funding Opportunities  Directory of Open Access Journals Directory of Open Access Journals

10.  Open Access is an alternative to the current user-pay system for accessing academic research  Who pays?  Grant Funding  Institutional Memberships

11.  Protection of copyright privileges  Freedom of choice  Freedom of communication  Freedom of distribution and archiving

12.  GSA, Library and Research Office  Established publishing award in 2010  $5000 award is designed to offset publishing fees for graduate students

13.  Masters or Doctoral candidates in either part- time or full-time studies  http://www.library.carleton.ca/subjects/open accessjournals.html http://www.library.carleton.ca/subjects/open accessjournals.html  Material published must be deposited in the Library’s Institutional Repository (CURVE)

14.  Identifying and Evaluating Author-Friendly Journals www- sul.stanford.edu/scholarly_com/colloquium/presentations/payne.pdf Identifying and Evaluating Author-Friendly Journals  Open Access to the Scientific Journal Situation http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.001127 3 Open Access to the Scientific Journal Situation  Open Access Website http://www.library.carleton.ca/about/projects/openaccess/index.ht ml Open Access Website  And many thanks to Margaret Haines, University Librarian for her valuable and timely input  Download this presentation: http://www.geogenvirospecialist.wordpress.com http://www.geogenvirospecialist.wordpress.com