My Subject: Researchers: Scholarly communication

An introduction to scholarly communication

This section contains information on the scholarly communication process:

The best journals to be published in, how to find them and how to get published.
Open access publication, often a requirement of your funding body.
Books, publishing and getting an ISBN

Make sure you put all your publications into our research repository. This ensures your publications are visible to everyone worldwide, not just at Middlesex. They are found by Google Scholar which will enable you to publicise your work through social media, e.g. Twitter for researchers.

Repository and citations

Papers in our repository will be more easily found and better cited. It is searched by Google Scholar. For more information see:

To search university repositories world wide for Open Access publications try BASE:

For further information contact your subject liaison librarian.

ISBNs

International Standard Book Numbers are the world wide system used to identify each and every book published.
ISBNs are used by the book trade to track sales and orders and in libraries for cataloguing. Your publisher will supply one of their ISBNs.
If your work is published by part of Middlesex University you need one of our ISBNs. You can get an ISBN from:
- Kate Vasili k.vasili@mdx.ac.uk

ORCID

ORCID provides an identifier for individuals to use with their name as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities. It is becoming required by funding bodies and publishers.

ORCID ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between you and your professional activities ensuring that your work is recognized.

Peer review

Peer review the nuts and bolts This is a nuts and bolts guide to peer review for early career researchers written by members of the VoYS network. Using a collection of concerns raised by their peers, the VoYS writing team set off to interview scientists, journal editors, grant bodies’ representatives, patient group workers and journalists in the UK and around the world to find out how peer review works, the challenges for peer review and how to get involved.