As we start the new semester in 2022, the Scholarly Communications Committee is pleased to share another round of short video lectures to help researchers navigate scholarly publishing and promotion. The short lectures will cover a variety of topics including promoting your research after publication, the research life cycle, open access publishing and much more. The new videos are available for viewing on the ‘Scholarly Communications Short Video Library’ and on Himmelfarb Library’s YouTube Channel under the ‘Scholarly Communications Videos’ playlist.
Here are the titles and descriptions for each video:
Promoting Your Research
Are you looking for ways to promote your research or publications? In this brief tutorial we cover basic social media promotion tips, tweetable abstracts, and the value of including your research in open access repositories. We also discuss the importance of ensuring that researcher profiles include accurate and up to date publication information.
Advanced Literature Searches and the MeSH Search Builder
This tutorial provides information on how to access and utilize the MeSH search builder using PubMed. We discuss how to perform advanced literature searches using this tool.
The Research Cycle
This tutorial provides an overview of the research lifecycle and describes what happens in each phase.
CREDiT taxonomy
Do you have questions about authorship credit and order? The CREDiT taxonomy can help! In this tutorial we discuss contributor roles and publishers that utilize CREDiT to ensure that researchers get credit for their work!
Retractions, errata, expressions of concern
In this tutorial we give an overview of retractions, corrections, and expressions of concern. We discuss reasons for retractions, the process of making corrections to published research, and look at examples in PubMed.
Open Access and Your Research
Is there value to publishing your research in an Open Access (OA) format? In this tutorial we define Open Access, give examples of different types of OA, and discuss options for publishing or archiving research in an OA format.
Once you’ve finished watching the new videos, explore our video library and watch the previous short lectures to learn more about publication, promotion and the resources Himmelfarb Library offers.
If you are a researcher with questions or concerns about publishing your research or looking for ways to promote your work to a wide audience, the Scholarly Communications Committee is here to assist you at every step of the process. Feel free to contact members of the committee via email by using the email address listed at the end of each video or contact Himmelfarb Library at himmelfarb@gwu.edu. If you have suggestions for future video topics, leave them in the comments or send an email and a staff member will share it with the committee.
