Scholarly Publishing vs. Predatory Publishing: Tracking and Promoting your Publications

"Sharing research, accomplishments and ambitions with a wider audience makes you more visible in your field. This helps you get cited more, enabling you to cultivate a stronger reputation, promote your research and move forward in your career. Sharing your article is an important part of research and it’s important to share responsibly.

As an author, you benefit from sharing the appropriate version of your article which ensures that:

You always receive credit – you need to be cited accurately, which will also ensure that services such as your personal Stats dashboard records your citations correctly
The integrity of the Scientific Record is not compromised - you should always direct readers to the most up to date version of your article - a link to the published journal article.
You make use of services we offer – Sharelinks are a personal, customized short link that provides free access to your article for 50 days

"PlumX Metrics provide insights into the ways people interact with individual pieces of research output (articles, conference proceedings, book chapters, and many more) in the online environment. Examples include, when research is mentioned in the news or is tweeted about. Collectively known as PlumX Metrics, these metrics are divided into five categories to help make sense of the huge amounts of data involved and to enable analysis by comparing like with like...We categorize metrics into 5 separate categories: Usage, Captures, Mentions, Social Media, and Citations." *Note* The Nash Library has PlumX Metrics connected to articles held in our subscription databases.

"How Can I Share It provides information on all aspects of scholarly sharing. The site includes practical information and tools to ensure articles can be shared with your colleagues quickly and easily. How Can I share It also includes information on how you can share, where you can share and recommendations for sharing sites where you can engage and collaborate with the research community.

How Can I Share It endorses the voluntary principles for article sharing on scholarly collaboration networks as drafted by the STM Association."

"Kudos was developed to help researchers ensure their publications get found, read and cited in a world of information overload....Kudos is the only platform dedicated to dissemination across the multiple networks and channels available to researchers for sharing information about their work. We are also the only platform that aggregates all the most relevant metrics about that work in one place, and maps outreach activities against those metrics."

"ORCID is a nonprofit organization helping create a world in which all who participate in research, scholarship and innovation are uniquely identified and connected to their contributions and affiliations, across disciplines, borders, and time...ORCID serves a broad stakeholder community that includes individuals, research and scholarly organizations, data repositories and libraries, publishers, patent offices, service providers, and more…"

"Impactstory is an open-source website that helps researchers explore and share the the online impact of their research.

By helping researchers tell data-driven stories about their work, we're helping to build a new scholarly reward system that values and encourages web-native scholarship. We’re funded by the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and incorporated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation."