This hands-on workshop will help graduate students learn tools that measure journal quality, publisher copyright policies, and their significance to you as an author. Includes concise overviews of:
- Measures of journal quality, including ISI impact factor and other indicators
- Copyright law as related to journal publishing (transferring copyright)
- Publisher copyright policies, including rights for posting your work on the web
- Publishing options: open access channels, in both new and traditional journals, and other types of publishing
When: Friday November 16, 2007, 11am-12pm
Where: 14N-132
Presented by: Ellen Duranceau
Sponsored by: The GSC-ARC and the MIT Libraries