In a landscape of predatory publishers, journal impact factors, required open access, and author fees, determining which journal to submit a manuscript to can be a complex calculation. Once a manuscript is accepted, authors may not know their rights as the copyright holder, and this can affect future scholarship. The University Libraries are here to help. In this workshop, attendees will learn about tools that assist in finding the right journal and tips for avoiding predatory publishers. Additionally, attendees will learn of their rights as academic authors and engage in a discussion about negotiating those rights with publishers.

1. Preparing to Publish
Find the Best Journal and Know Your Rights as an Author
Stephanie Wiegand
Associate Professor
University of Northern Colorado
04/10/2018
Scholarly Communication Workshop Series
Library Research Services
University Libraries
Greeley, CO

3. Part I
Scholarly Communication

4. Sibson, F. (1869). Medical anatomy, or, illustrations of the relative position and movements of the internal organs. London, United Kingdom: John Churchill & Sons. Retrieved
from https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm:nlmuid-61130730R-bk (public domain)

5. ARL serials and monograph inflation (2003-2004). ARL statistics. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries. Retrieved from http://www.arl.org/publications-
resources/search-publications/search/summary
Journal Inflation

6. Image based on the Association of College and Research
Libraries explanation of Scholarly Communication (see
http://acrl.libguides.com/scholcomm/toolkit/)
Scholarly Communication Process

7. Part II
Journal Selection

8. please open a browser at go to:
padlet.com/UNCLIB/journal

10. Journal Selection
1. Likelihood of manuscript acceptance
2. Journal reputation
3. Journal visibility and potential article impact
4. Likelihood of timely publication
5. Philosophical and ethical issues

11. 1. Likelihood of manuscript acceptance
 Acceptance rate
 Colleague / mentor advice
 Journal author-institution bias
 Journal cited in manuscript
 Journal geographic bias
 Journal methodology bias
 Journal published articles on same topic
 Journal significance bias
 Journal aim and scope
 Time from submission to publication

12. 2. Journal reputation
 Abstracting and indexing
 Acceptance rate
 Age of journal
 Audience size
 Citation half-life
 Editor / editorial board
reputation
 Impact factor
 Journal ethics
 Journal prestige
 Known authors
 Peer review
 Publisher prestige
 Society or organization
sponsors journal

13. 3. Journal visibility and potential article impact
 Abstracting and indexing
 Acceptance rate
 Audience size
 Author contributions from
different countries
 Availability of persistent
identifier
 College/department list
 Discipline list
 Editor / editorial board
reputation
 Journal aim and scope
 Online publication with
tracking
 Open access
 Peer review

14. 4. Likelihood of timely publication
 Electronic publication before print
 Issues per year
 Time from submission to publication or time from
submission to acceptance

15. 5. Philosophical and ethical issues
 Author charges
 Author contributions from
different countries
 Author’s rights / copyright
 Cost of journal
 Journal author-institution
bias
 Journal geographic bias
 Journal policies
 Journal significance bias
 Membership to society or
organization that sponsors
journal
 Open access
 Society or organization
sponsors journal

16. TOOLS
libguides.unco.edu/Wiegand/2018P2P

17. Predatory Journals
Fake Journals
Faux Journals
Pseudo Journals
Hijacked Journals

18. So, what’s
so bad about
publishing in a
predatory journal?

19. TOOLS
Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)
The Think Check Submit logo is from Think. Check. Submit. (https://thinkchecksubmit.org/), an initiative sponsored by the Association of Learned and Professional Society
Publishers (ALPSP), the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP), International Standard Serial
Number (ISSN), Ligue des Biblioteques Europeennes de Recherche (LIBAR/Association of European Research Libraries), Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA),
International Association of STM Publishers (STM), United Kingdom Serials Group (UKSG) and individual publishers).

22. You submit your manuscript to a journal for publication. You believe
in the idea of open access, so you made sure that the journal you
submitted is from an open access publisher.
The peer reviewer comments come and you make changes. The
discussion goes back and forth, but you are still pleased with how
quickly it all goes.
The publisher accepts the revised manuscript for publication. You
wait for appropriate paperwork from the publisher for transfer of
copyright to come. It does not; what does come is a bill for
$2000.00 to be paid immediately. You then search Google and find
that your article is already posted online at the journal website.
You discover that you accidently submitted to a ‘predatory’
publisher. What do you do?

23. Part III
Author Rights

24. How do you think
Paul McCartney feels
every time he has to
pay Sony ATV to play
“Hey Jude”?
“hey jude album, the beatles” by badgreeb RECORDS is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

26. Why do we talk
about author rights
instead of copyright?

27. You create an original
work fixed in a tangible
medium.
You now have rights as
the creator.
Oh, wait, do you work
for the university?

28. 2-3-411 Intellectual Property Rights of Faculty. (Approved BOT 6-1-04)
2-3-411(1) Works Subject to Copyright.
This policy applies to works which can be protected by copyright; have been created by a faculty member in the course and scope of
employment by the University and which have been developed to impart knowledge to others in a systematic way; would in the
absence of this policy be considered to 108 be works for hire under the law, and which are not subject to a written agreement
between the University and the faculty member commissioning the work which is executed prior to the creation of the work.
(a) Works for Hire. In order to support creative and scholarly activity of University faculty, and in recognition of the traditional
view of faculty’s interests in intellectual property created as a consequence of employment by the University, the
ownership of intellectual property in any form, regardless of medium, including class materials shall be apportioned as
follows between the University and the faculty member(s):
(I) The University hereby assigns the copyright to such work to the author. The University shall retain a non-exclusive, non-
assignable license to use the work for educational and/or research purposes with appropriate attribution to the
author. The University reserves the right to use the work in teaching, scholarship and research, to control the use of
the University’s name and logo in conjunction with the work, to require acknowledgement of the University’s
institutional support in the creation of the work, to borrow portions of the work for use in compilations or composite
works, to use the work to directly advance the mission of the institution, to require advance notice of dispositions of
the copyrighted work by the author, and to make derivative works, subject to the time limitations of applicable
copyright law.
(II) The faculty member shall be the owner of the work, subject to the University’s license set forth above.
(III) In the case of joint works which are the product of more than one faculty author in the employ of the University, the
University’s assignment of its rights hereunder controls only the relationship between the University and the
individual faculty member, and does not transfer the rights of one individual faculty member to another.
Board Policy Manual, pp. 107-108
http://www.unco.edu/trustees/pdf/policymanual.pdf

29. No necessary.

30. Six years ago, you authored an article on trachea regeneration
through bio-3D printing; you submitted the article to the
Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (Elsevier).
The editor and peer reviewers had a few suggestions, but
otherwise your article sailed through and was published.
You are now working on a book about the use of 3D printing
in surgical reconstruction, and realize that the article from six
years ago, while no longer cutting edge, fits in perfectly as a
chapter in this book.
Do you have the right to publish this work again in a book?

31. Which of the following are okay for you, as copyright holder?
1. To reproduce the work
2. To prepare derivative works based upon your
work
3. To distribute copies of the work
4. To publicly perform the work
5. To publicly display the work
6. To publicly perform sound recordings via a digital
audio transmission

32. From Elsevier Journal Publishing Agreement as of 2016
The Author Rights include the right to use the Preprint, Accepted Manuscript and
the Published Journal Article for Personal Use, Internal Institutional Use and for
Scholarly Sharing.
Personal Use is use by an author in the author’s classroom teaching (including
distribution of copies, paper or electronic) or presentation by an author at a meeting
or conference (including distribution of copies to the delegates attending such
meeting), distribution of copies (including through e-mail) to known research
colleagues for their personal use, use in a subsequent compilation of the author’s
works, inclusion in a thesis or dissertation, preparation of other derivative works
such as extending the Article to book-length form, or otherwise using or re-using
portions or excerpts in other works (with full acknowledgment of the original
publication of the Article).

33. Your Rights as an Author
1. To reproduce the work
2. To prepare derivative works based upon your
work
3. To distribute copies of the work
4. To publicly perform the work
5. To publicly display the work
6. To publicly perform sound recordings via a digital
audio transmission
Copyright Act, Section 106

34. What does the publisher want?
EVERYTHING.

35. You want to retain your rights to use your latest article
in the classroom and to use it to a derivative work (you
are planning to greatly expand and the topic and write a
book).
You know which journal you want to submit to and you
do so. Revisions go smoothly. You accept the publisher’s
final version through the online manuscript portal.
The copyright agreement is part of the click-through
process. How do you negotiate with a computer form?

36. SHERPA/RoMEO
a database of what publishers allow
allows archiving of pre-print and post-print or publisher’s version/PDF
allows archiving of post-print (final draft after peer review) or publisher’s version/PDF
allows archiving of pre-print (pre-peer review)
does not allow archiving
SPARC Author Addendum
(Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)

37. “Creative Commons logo” by Creative Commons is licensed under CC BY 4.0.

39. THANK YOU!
Questions?