Scholarly Publishing, Research Impact Metrics, and Open Publishing Workshops
Upcoming workshops offered by the University Library this semester related to Scholarly Publishing, Research Impact Metrics, Copyright, and Open Publishing:
Open Access Publishing and Data Sharing with INDIGO, UIC’s Institutional Repository
This workshop will cover the basics of using INDIGO, UIC’s Institutional Repository. INDIGO collects, disseminates, and provides persistent and reliable access to the research and scholarship of faculty, staff, and students at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Faculty, staff, and graduate students can deposit their research and scholarship - unpublished and, in many cases, published - directly into INDIGO. Departments can use INDIGO to distribute their working papers, data sets, technical reports, or other research material. It can also be used to create records about data sets that are stored elsewhere (privacy or size limitations) to increase discoverability for reuse.
Thursday March 28, 2024: 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Register: https://libcal.uic.edu/event/12068233
Scholarly Publishing: Selecting scholarly publishing venues to maximize your impact while avoiding “predatory publishers”
Do you wonder how to select a journal in which to publish or wonder about the quality of a journal? This session will demonstrate tools to identify potential journals in your field, how to explore impact metrics for journals (JIF, SJR, CiteScore), how to find where a journal is indexed for dissemination, and tools to evaluate the quality of journals. Many reputable, peer-reviewed Open Access journals are available, but so are “predatory publisher” that charge publication fees but do little in terms of peer review. Tips and tools to identify legitimate open access and subscription-based journals and avoid predatory publishers will be covered.
Wednesday March 6, 2024 at 11:00 AM
Register: https://libcal.uic.edu/event/12068234
Research Impact Metrics: Assessing your scholarly impact using citations, h-index, and altmetrics
This workshop will cover ways to measure your research impact including through citation analysis and the H-index through a range of tools including Web of Science, Scopus & Google Scholar, Dimensions, and MyActivities. Alternative Metrics (social media, downloads, bookmarks) and data sources for altmetrics (Scopus, Dimensions, MyActivities) and the responsible use of metrics will also be covered.
Wednesday March 13, 2024: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Register: https://libcal.uic.edu/event/12068235
Bibliometric Visualization of Research
Are you interested in a closer analysis of who is citing your work or the work of your research team? This workshop will provide an introduction to VOSviewer for analyzing and visualizing bibliometric networks. VOSviewer is a free open access software tools created by CWTS at Leiden University. In addition, this workshop will cover: what are bibliometrics, network visualization options found in Scopus and Web of Science, and an overview of other impact metrics.
Tuesday March 12, 2024: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Register: https://libcal.uic.edu/event/12068243
Thursday April 11, 2024: 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Register: https://libcal.uic.edu/event/12068244
Introduction to Open Education Resource (OER) Adoption
This workshop introduces faculty to open textbooks /open educations resources (OER). The workshop will cover the benefits of open education resources, how to find open education textbooks, and how to evaluate them. The session will also provide an overview of the Open Textbook Faculty Incentive Program.
Thursday, March 7, 2024: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Register: https://libcal.uic.edu/event/12026047
Using Multi-Media and other Copyrighted Material in the Classroom; What you need to know about Copyright & Fair Use
This webinar offers guidance to instructors using print and multimedia resources in the classroom (both face-to-face and online). The session will review current copyright law and how to make Fair Use determinations when using copyrighted materials in your course. We will explore the differences between face-to-face classroom and online use of video, music, images, and articles.
February 28, 2024: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Register: https://libcal.uic.edu/event/12068245
Creating Biosketches for NSF & NIH using SciENcv
NIH and NSF both require Biosketches, which can be developed using SciENcv in MyNCBI.
This workshop will guide you step-by step through:
- how to create/ update an ORCID iD from various sources (e.g. Scopus)
- how link your ORCID profile to your SciENcv (for publications not in PubMed)
- how to create and export your biosketch using SciENcv for NIH or NSF
Thursday February 29, 2024: 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Register: https://libcal.uic.edu/event/12068236
Tuesday March 5, 2024: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Register: https://libcal.uic.edu/event/12068237
Wednesday March 27, 2024: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Register: https://libcal.uic.edu/event/12068240