Deciding where to publish your research can seem like a daunting task. The Ebling Library has put together this guide to help you to navigate the process of identifying candidate journals, determining the fit of a journal, evaluating journals (including how to identify potentially predatory journals and conferences), and considering access options for your work.

Impact metrics attempt to quantify the impact of researchers, publications, and journals. Impact metrics are frequently used to inform considerations such as hiring, promotion, tenure, grants, and choice in journals. The Ebling Library has put together this guide to help you learn 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.

Once you become a published researcher you will want to manage your online scholarly identity by creating a researcher profile. Among other things, creating a researcher profile will make your achievements more discoverable and distinguishable from those of other researchers. The Ebling Library has put together this guide to help you to create and maintain researcher profiles in ORCID, Scopus, and Google Scholar.

What do we mean when we say publication tracking? In this context, publication tracking refers to the process of searching for and compiling publications from a specific author, group of authors, or institution. Alternative names for publication tracking include author searching, publication counts, or publication outputs. The Ebling Library has put together this guide to help you to navigate the publication tracking process.

Most U.S. government agencies and an increasing number of private foundations require the published results of funded research be made publicly accessible through federal institutional repositories. These award terms ensure that the results of grant funding are open and accessible, providing transparency and increasing the speed of scientific discovery.

Clickable chart of major biomedical research report guidelines & initiatives from the National Library of Medicine (NLM).

The UW Research and Sponsored Programs offers a variety of services relating to funding, including finding funding; proposal preparation; agreement negotiation; and award setup, management, and closeout.

Research Data Services (RDS) is a free resource for anyone on the UW-Madison campus that provides consultations, best practice information, and education and training on research data management and sharing. We help make your data citable, open, and publicly accessible