Tips to improve the impact of publications and research of the WI. Presentation by @mellanye & @brenda_linares for the @UNC_Water_Inst

1. Increase the Reach
Brenda Linares blinares@unc.edu
Mellanye Lackey mjlackey@unc.edu

2. OA publishing
Benefits
● Increases the visibility, readership and impact of
author’s works
● Enhances interdisciplinary research
● Directory of Open Access Journal (http://doaj.org/)
9,976 Journals
134 Countries
1,713,360 Articles
● Provides access to previously unavailable
materials relating to health, energy, environment,
and other areas of broad interest
● BMJ article in 2008 found: “Articles assigned to
open access were associated with 89% more full
text downloads... than subscription access
articles in the first six months after publication”
● Cost vs. benefit
www.sparc.org
http://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/337/bmj.a568.full.pdf
Dr. Jamie Bartram:
Estimating the burden of disease from water, sanitation,
and hygiene at a global level
By: Pruss, A; Kay, D; Fewtrell, L; Bartram, JK et al.
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES Volume: 110
Issue: 5 Pages: 537-542 Published: MAY 2002
-Cited 459 times
Hygiene, Sanitation, and Water: Forgotten Foundations
of Health
By: Bartram, JK; Cairncross, Sandy
PLOS MEDICINE Volume: 7 Issue: 11 Article Number:
e1000367 Published: NOV 2010
-Cited 159 times

3. Keywords/Titles/Abstracts
Do Don’t
Keywords ● words in paper but not the ti/ab
● synonyms (microbes/bacteria, hygiene/handwashing)
● main concepts of paper
● duplicate ti/ab words
● use jargon
● too specific
● too broad
Title ● 10-12 words
● highlight essential content: study design, outcome,
population
● use action verbs
● include unnecessary words
● use passive voice
● be boring
Abstract ● structured
● use MeSH or other thesaurus terms
● marketing tool
● include info not in paper
● use filler words
● abbreviations
Source: http://www.editage.com/insights/how-to-write-an-effective-title-and-abstract-and-choose-appropriate-keywords

4. Data sharing
Positives:
● Encourages diversity of analysis and opinion
● Makes possible the testing of new or alternative hypotheses and methods of analysis, supports studies on data
collection methods and measurement
● Permits the creation of new data sets when data from multiple sources are combined.
● Funding Organizations have different regulations and/or copyright policies
● Example:
NSF
“NSF normally allows grantees to retain principal legal rights to intellectual property developed under NSF grants”
“Investigators are expected to share with other researchers... the primary data, samples, physical collections and other supporting
materials created or gathered in the course of work under NSF grants.”
Implications:
● Institutional, National, and international
● Complexity of Information technology
● Organizational and management issues
● Property and legally
Source:
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappguide/nsf13001/aag_6.jsp#VID4
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/dsj/3/0/3_0_135/_pdf
Open Data Event! Open Access Week!
When: Thu 10/24
Time: 10am
Location: Davis and Live Stream at HSL

5. More dissemination ideas
● Use consistent names
● Negotiate to publish the same article in
another language
● Register SRs and trials
● Issue press releases
● Get an
● Monitor altmetrics
● Use keywords
● Build online libraries
● Continue making conference presentations
publicly available. Pressure organizers to do
the same.
Source: https://becker.wustl.edu/impact-assessment/strategies

7. Other Library Services
Research Cycle