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Struggling with identifying potential journals for your next article manuscript? This guide is intended to be helpful to faculty and student who are trying to identify quality journals in their discipline as well as find information/warnings about journals to avoid (for a variety of reasons).
For additional information specific to a given discipline, we recommend you contact your subject librarian and consult senior faculty in your department.
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If you’re just starting out in your research career (or even if this is your first time publishing), one of the first challenges you might face is deciding which journal is right for your submission. With so many prestigious journals out there, which one is going to give you the best chances of publishing successfully? Based on the expert advice from publishers and authors, we’ve put together the guide below to give you an overview of the questions you need to ask and the points you need to consider in order to choose the RIGHT journal for your work.
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Think. Check. Submit. helps researchers identify trusted journals and publishers for their research.
Through a range of tools and practical resources, this international, cross-sector initiative aims to educate researchers, promote integrity, and build trust in credible research and publications. Sharing research results with the world is key to the progress of your discipline and career but with so many publications, how can you be sure you can trust a particular journal? Follow this checklist below to make sure you choose trusted journals and publishers for your research.
How to Find a Journal to Publish Your Manuscript written by David Harmeyer, APU Librarian
- How to Find a Journal to Publish Your ManuscriptA brief conversation between a librarian and a faculty member covering a few unconventional, practical techniques for evaluating and finding journals to submit one’s manuscript to for publication.
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The reference interview today: Negotiating and answering questions face to face, on the phone, and virtually. by
More an art than a science, the reference interview requires not only knowing a specific set of skills, but also how to apply those skills in an ever-changing world. Good reference interviews accomplish three goals: establishing contact with the user, determining what the user's information need actually is, and checking to make sure that the answer actually meets that need completely. Built around timeless service principles including Ranganathan's Five Laws, The Reference Interview Today: Negotiating and Answering Questions Face to Face, on the Phone, and Virtually is a practical field guide to conducting reference interviews in every modality: face-to-face, phone, chat, text, virtual world such as Second Life, and even mashup reference interviews where multiple modalities are used to answer the question. Following a concise presentation of reference interview basics, the heart of the book is 12 different reference interview scenarios set in different modes and demonstrating a specific principle. Each of these twelve follows a similar construction: a general overview of the principle (for example, save the time of the reader), a script of the reference interview, and then learning questions designed to demonstrate the principle(s) as illustrated in the script. Examples range from assisting faculty members with scholarly resources to helping a high school student with a paper to assisting a hairdresser with a reference question. One scenario is based in the year 2025 to emphasize the timeless nature of reference service. Seamlessly combining both time-honored principles and multiple technologies, this practical book demonstrates how librarians can be as relevant and necessary in the digital age as in the print world. Appropriate for both novice and experienced librarians as well as for LIS students, this concise handbook speaks to those working in or preparing for careers in public, school, academic, and special libraries..
Call Number: Z711 .H419 2014ISBN: 9780810888159Publication Date: 2014-02-07
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