Graduate School of Engineering and Technology Management: Publishing and Research Visibility

SANLiC has negotiated and signed a number of agreements for South African Higher Education Institutions. The list of current negotiated agreements is now available allowing South Africans to publish FOR FREE

1) READ AND PUBLISH LIST (ACM, SPRINGER, WILEY, ELSEVIER)

2) HOW TO PUBLISH 

Publish OPEN ACCESS without cost in these journals [UP Author/s must be corresponding author/s]. Contact your Information Specialist at marriette.mapheto@up.ac.za to assist you verify whether the journal you chose is indeed Open Access and Accredited.

OrcID Connecting Researchers and Research

Create your OrcID  Get a standard unique author identity

• Register an ORCID linked to the University of Pretoria 2021

What is OrcID? 

• It provides a standard unique author identifier, to prevent author confusion brought about by name ambiguities
• OrcID connects all existing identities
• For grant/funding applications & ratings
• For publishing in certain journals
• For linking researchers

Populate your ORCID Link publications from Scopus~Google Scholar~Manually~Use Crossref to keep your ORCID updated

Short Video   Use the Search & Link Wizard to Import Works

• Infographic on research Visibility and Impact

How to improve your research visibility

Research(er) Visibility Check - this will assist your research to be visible and accessible. 

WILEY - Open Access articles create higher impact: click here 

Predatory publishing includes practices that exploit academic research output for financial gain to the detriment of the academics, researchers and their institutions. Here is a tool researchers may use to identify a trusted publisher for their research:

Think. Check. Submit

Here is another tool researchers may use to judge the legitimacy and academic credentials of conferences.

Think. Check. Attend

Creative Commons (CC) licenses are legal tools that creators and other rights holders can use to grant certain usage rights to the public, while reserving other rights. 

There are different licenses, each with 3 layers: 

• Legal Code: Each license begins as a traditional legal tool, using the jargon-y kind of language and text formats that lawyers know and love.
• Human Readable: Each license is also available in a format that an average person can read and easily understand its key terms and conditions.
• Machine Readable: Each license has a summary of the key freedoms and obligations written in a format that software systems, search engines, and other technology can understand.

All works held under Creative Commons licenses are indicated with this icon:. Furthure, CC-licensed work can then have four different license terms

• Attribution, "BY" or the  icon, which indicates that a user can copy, adapt, remix, display, perform, and distribute your work so long as they credit your name as requested by you.
• No Derivative Works, "ND" or the  icon, which indicates that the work is free to copy, distribute, display, or perform as it is, verbatim with no modifications or adaptations.
•  Share Alike, "SA" or the  icon, which means that folks can only disseminate the work under the same license chosen by the original author for the work.
• Non-Commercial, "NC" or the  icon, which indicates that others may copy, distribute, display, perform, or remix the work but only for non-commercial purposes.

The above 4 can be combined to make the 6 primary Creative Common License as below:

1. CC BY
2. CC BY SA
3. CC BY NC
4. CC BY ND
5. CC BY NC SA
6. CC BY NC ND

The library's Special Collection Unit can assist with issuing ISBNs.