If you are publishing research funded by grants that require public access compliance, you will want to consult UW Madison's Public Access Service. They can help you to navigate the complexities of public access compliance.

Once you become a published researcher, you will want to manage your online scholarly identity. Managing your scholarly identity can help you to more easily show your publication record to potential employers, network with other researchers, and communicate some of your many successes as a researcher. Below are just a few resources you can use to communicate your scholarly identity.

• ORCID: Open Researcher and Contributor IDs (ORCID IDs) are unique, persistent digital identifiers that help to distinguish researchers from one another and reliably link them to their scholarly contributions. Researchers can connect their ORCID ID with a variety of professional information, including affiliations, grants, publications, peer review, datasets, patents, multimedia projects, etc. through updating and managing their ORCID record (i.e. ORCID profile).
• Scopus Author Profiles: Scopus author profiles contain, among other things, an author's Scopus ID, metrics, and a list of their publications indexed in Scopus. Scopus IDs are unique numbers assigned to authors who have at least 2 publications indexed in Scopus. Scopus IDs are meant to disambiguate authors, as a search of an author's Scopus ID will retrieve any publications associated with that ID in Scopus.
• Google Scholar Profiles: Google Scholar Profiles allow authors to claim and compile their Google Scholar publications and access citation metrics for those publications. Google Scholar Profiles can be either private or public, with public profiles being discoverable in Google and Google Scholar.

For additional information, see the Researcher Profiles Guide.

For resources on impact metrics and publication tracking, see the following research guides.

• Publication Tracking Research Guide: Publication tracking refers to the process of searching for and compiling publications from a specific author, group of authors, or institution. This guide walks you through the process of publication tracking in PubMed, Scopus, and Google Scholar.
• Impact Metrics Guide: this guide contains information about some of the more common impact metric types, including how they are used, how they are calculated, where you can find them, their limitations, and resources for learning more about them.