Online lecture on Scholarly Communications by V. Sriram in Five Days Online Researcher Development Programme (RDP), Mahatma Gandhi University Library, Kottayam, India. 30th September 2021

1. Scholarly Communications
V. Sriram
Chief Librarian, K.N.Raj Library
Centre for Development Studies
Thiruvananthapuram
Five Days Online Researcher Development Programme (RDP)
Mahatma Gandhi University Library
Kottayam, India
30th September 2021

2. Contents
 Copyright
 Open Access Publishing
 Self-archiving and SHERPA-RoMEO
 Avoiding Predatory Publishers
 Avoiding Predatory Publishers
 Tools for journals selection
 Writing for community
 Social networking

3. Avenues of Publication
 Journal article
 Article in a collection
 Contribution to
newspapers
Commentaries
 Book
 Book editorial
 Book section / chapter
 Book review
 WP / OP / Notes
 Commentaries
 Internal or external
report
 Dissertation / Thesis
 WP / OP / Notes
 Popular publications
 Blogs / Wikis
 Multimedia
 Video
 Podcasts

4. Copyright
 Copyright is the legal right to intellectual content in
any form
 The owner holds the exclusive right to make
multiple copies of the work
 It protects the owner by preventing others from
illegally reproducing the work in any format.
illegally reproducing the work in any format.
 Protection to authors, performers, producers,
artists, etc. To stimulate their creativity.
 Any mature society should protect and nurture the
creativity and safeguard culture.
 Copyright thus leads to growth and development of
the country.

5. Copyright
 Economic rights
 Royalty
 Sale
 Moral rights
 Personal rights of owner
Can be transferred or
reassigned
 Personal rights of owner
 Integrity
 Attribution Cannot be transferred. It remains
always with the author.

6. Fair use
 Non-commercial limited use
 Education and Research
 News reporting
 Commentary
 Book reviews
 Book reviews

7. Open Access
 Articles are free to all interested readers
 No copyright barriers between the readers
and the article.
 OA stands for unrestricted access and
 OA stands for unrestricted access and
unrestricted reuse
 OA Policies of funders to higher education
institutions
 OA Initiatives

8. OA Publishing
 Gold OA
 Hybrid OA
 Green OA
Diamond OA
 Diamond OA

9. OA Benefits
 Accelerated discovery
 Inclusive
 Faster research
Global visibility
 Global visibility
 Knowledge economy
 Immediate use

10. Misconceptions about OA
 Author loses copyright
 No peer review
 Not indexed in global DB
 No impact factor
 Extra work by authors to self-archive
 Spamming by predatory publishers
 Non availability of good OA in all
subjects

11. OA Publishers
BioMed Central publishes 272 peer-
reviewed open access journals.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/
Public Library of Science (PLOS)
Public Library of Science (PLOS)
http://www.plos.org/
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
http://doaj.org/ (More than 16620 journals)

12. Self Archiving
What?
 Authors make their articles freely available on
the Internet.
 Versions : –
Preprint
Post print - Author
Post print - Publisher

13. Self Archiving
Why?
 Articles made available openly are read and
cited more.
 Several funding agencies required that the
publications financed by them should be
available for free for everyone.

14. Self Archiving
How?
 Self-archiving by :
Author’s website,
Subject archives,
Institutional archive.
Institutional archive.
 Awareness about publisher policies on
archiving.
https://authorservices.wiley.com/author-
resources/Journal-Authors/licensing/self-
archiving.html

15. Sherpa Romeo

16. Predatory Publishers
 Several publishers publish counterfeit
journals to exploit open access model.
 They lack transparency. Quality of
publications are poor, and questionable.
 Scholars and researchers also take
 Scholars and researchers also take
unethical shortcuts and try to publish by
paying.

17. https://ugccare.unipune.ac.in/

18. Find the right journal
 Journal website
 Editor / Editorial Board Members
 Journal coverage / objectives
 Journal Indexing Services, DOAJ, COPE
 Peer review process, timelines to publish.
 Peer review process, timelines to publish.
 Read the past issues of the journal
 UGC – CARE List of Journals
 Think! Check! Submit!

19. Tools for Journal Selection
 Elsevier Journal Finder
https://journalfinder.elsevier.com/
 JANE https://jane.biosemantics.org/
 Journal Finder
https://journalfinder.wiley.com/
Manuscript Matcher
 Manuscript Matcher
https://endnote.com/product-
details/manuscript-matcher/
 Open Journal Matcher https://ojm.ocert.at/
 Springer Journal Suggester
https://journalsuggester.springer.com/

20. ORCID - Open Researcher and Contributor ID

21. Google Scholar Profile

22. Writing for society
 Research is funded by society, hence the
results should also reach them.
 Every year publish at least one non-academic
item in magazine, news paper, blogs and so
on.
on.
 Continuously engage the society by
communicating to it about your research, its
results and its implications.
 Use mass media to its maximum.
 Altmetrics is gaining importance

23. Contributing to mother tongue
 Publish at least one item per year in your
mother tongue.
 Knowledge base in any language will grow
and get enriched only with systematic efforts.
 Every language has its own importance in the
 Every language has its own importance in the
development of the region.

24. http://ala.keralascholars.org/

25. Social Networking
 Website / Blog - Wordpress, Blogger
 Multimedia Storage – You Tube
 Podcast – Spotify, Sound Cloud
 Presentations, Notes – Slide Share
 Presentations, Notes – Slide Share
 Social networking – Facebook, Twitter,
LinkedIn, Telegram
 Subject networks – SSRN, ArtsRN, MedRN
 Kerala Scholars t.me/keralascholars

26. Thank you!
Thank you!
Thank you!
Thank you!
V. Sriram
vsrirams@gmail.com