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Last Updated: 9-Mar-2015

This guide includes resources about scholarly publishing in scientific and technical disciplines. Areas covered include peer review, open access, article metrics, journal evaluation tools, and NISO best practices.

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Publishing your research 101

The effective communication of scientific research is vital both to the scientific community and to a scientist’s career. ACS (American Chemical Society) Publications has launched the Publishing Your Research 101 video series to assist authors and reviewers in understanding and improving their experience with the processes of writing, submitting, editing, and reviewing manuscripts.

Forum on the future of scientific publishing

This all-day Forum was held on Thursday, June 27, 2013, at the Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge on the Stanford University Campus. The Forum allowed major stakeholders to present their perspectives on impending federal policy changes regarding open access to scientific research.  View the detailed Agenda. Video and slide presentations can also be downloaded via the library catalog. 

Forum wordle, image by Sara Lefort

Article of the future

An introductory movie of the Elsevier's Article of the Future project. For more information, please visit www.articleofthefuture.com

Article of the future
The Article of the Future project -- an ongoing initiative by Elseiver that aims to revolutionize the traditional format of the academic paper in regard to three key elements: presentation, content and context.
Future of publishing
After nearly 400 years in the slow-moving world of print, the scientific publishing industry is suddenly being thrust into a fast-paced online world of cloud computing, crowd sourcing and ubiquitous sharing. Long-established practices are being challenged by new ones –- most notably, the open-access, author-pays publishing model. In this special issue that was published 28 March 2013, Nature takes a close look at the forces now at work in scientific publishing, and how they may play out over the coming decades. 

Flow of scientific information

The flow of scientific information: from idea to publication

The flow of scientific information
Source: University of Waterloo Library

About Science-Technology-Medicine (STM) Journals

  • Journal articles are one of the most important ways scientists and engineers formally communicate their research results with one another
  • Types of Journals: Magazines, Trade Journals, and Scholarly Journals
  • Types of publishers: Professional societies, Non-Profit Organizations, Commercial Publishers, Educational Institutions, and Government
  • Peer review vs Non-Peer Review
  • Types of articles: Rapid Communications or Letters, Research Articles, and Review Papers

Selected publishers:

Sense about Science > Peer review
Sense About Science works with scientists and members of the public to change public debates and to equip people to make sense of science and evidence. Their publications include:
The Role of the Critical Review Article in Alleviating Information Overload
The paper draws on a survey of early-career researchers to examine their approach to academic literature, such as how and why they read it, how much time they dedicate to it, what informs their reading choices, and how they assess quality. One-on-one interviews were then conducted with a range of prestigious scientists including Eugene Garfield (Thomson Reuters Scientific) and Richard Zare (Stanford University) to interpret the results in the broader research environment. Finally, current and past members of Annual Reviews staff explain the lifecycle of a critical review article, in terms of how it helps scientists address the challenge of information overload.

Academic research process

Academic research process
Visual summary included in an email message from Amazelia Services to Grace Baysinger on 13 January 2006.

Publishing your research

Mastering the Art of Scientific Publishing

Published by the ACS Publications in October 2014, this virtual issue of editor tips for authors has 20 papers for 20/20 vision on publishing.

Tips for Effective Scientific Papers

Key Steps in Composing a Scientifically Effective Paper

Reprinted with permission from Prashant V. Kamat; Jillian M. Buriak; George C. Schatz; Paul S. Weiss; J. Phys. Chem. Lett.  2014, 5, 3519.  DOI: 10.1021/jz502010v. Copyright 2014 American Chemical Society." 

Mastering the art of scientific publication
"While the electronic age has made the publication process easier and quicker, optimizing the structure of a scientific paper requires a certain degree of skill and proficiency. ACS Publications has been actively engaged in disseminating the basics of publication through Publication 101 videos and editorials, and in continuation of this spirit we have assembled this virtual issue. This issue draws together in one place these editorials that summarize the key steps involved in writing an effective paper, journal submission, review processes, and post-publication efforts."  — From the Editorial by Jillian M. Buriak, Prashant V. Kamat, George C. Schatz, and Paul S. Weiss

Books about getting your research published

Please see Sci-tech: Written communication for additional discipline-specific books about writing articles, theses, grant proposals, and technical reports.

handbook of scholarly writing and publishing
The handbook of scholarly writing and publishing / Tonette S. Rocco and Tim Hatcher, editors ; foreword by John W. Creswell.
1st ed. San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, c2011.
Chemistry & ChemEng Library (Swain) » Stacks » PN146 .H36 2011
Craft of Editing
The craft of editing : a guide for managers, scientists, and engineers / Michael Alley.
New York : Springer, c2000.
Chemistry & ChemEng Library (Swain) » Stacks » T11.4 .A43 2000
Getting published in the life sciences
Getting published in the life sciences / Richard J. Gladon, William R. Graves and J. Michael Kelly.
Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Blackwell, c2011.
Biology Library (Falconer) » Stacks » QH304 .G53 2011
How to write and publish a scientific paper
How to write and publish a scientific paper / Robert A. Day, Barbara Gastel.
7th ed. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Chemistry & ChemEng Library (Swain) » Stacks » T11 .D33 2012
Make your mark in science : creativity, presenting, publishing, and patents : a guide for young scientists
Make your mark in science : creativity, presenting, publishing, and patents : a guide for young scientists / Claus Ascheron and Angela Kickuth.
Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2005.
Chemistry & ChemEng Library (Swain) » Stacks » Q223 .A75 2005
What Editors Want : an author's guide to scientific journal publishing
What editors want : an author's guide to scientific journal publishing / Philippa J. Benson & Susan C. Silver.
Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Chemistry & ChemEng Library (Swain) » Stacks » Z286 .S37 B467 2013

Books about publishing

Handbook of Journal Publishing
The handbook of journal publishing / Sally Morris ... [et al.].
Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Chemistry & ChemEng Library (Swain) » Stacks » Z286 .S37 H35 2013
Introduction to scientific publishing
Introduction to scientific publishing [electronic resource] : backgrounds, concepts, strategies / Andreas Öchsner.
Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2013.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Peer review and manuscript management in scientific journals : guidelines for good practice
Peer review and manuscript management in scientific journals : guidelines for good practice / by Irene Hames.
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
Chemistry & ChemEng Library (Swain) » Stacks » Q225.5 .H255 2007
The Case for Books
The case for books : past, present, and future / Robert Darnton.
New York : PublicAffairs, c2009.
Green Library » Stacks » Z116 .A2 D37 2009
XML in technical communication
XML in technical communication / Charles Cowan.
Croydon [England] : Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators, 2008.
SAL3 (off-campus storage) » Stacks » QA76.76 .H94 C68 2008

Books about scholarly communication

Scholarship in the digital age : information, infrastructure, and the Internet
Scholarship in the digital age : information, infrastructure, and the Internet / Christine L. Borgman.
Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2007.
Green Library » HAS-DIGIT (Lane Room) (non-circulating) » AZ195 .B67 2007
Guide to e-Science
Guide to e-science [electronic resource] : next generation scientific research and discovery / Xiaoyu Yang, Lizhe Wang, Wei Jie, editors.
London ; New York : Springer, c2011.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Communicating science : the scientific article from the 17th century to the present
Communicating science : the scientific article from the 17th century to the present / Alan G. Gross, Joseph E. Harmon, Michael Reidy.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
SAL1&2 (on-campus shelving) » Stacks » Q225.5 .G79 2002
Oxford book of modern science writing
The Oxford book of modern science writing [electronic resource] / [edited by] Richard Dawkins.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)

Books on scholarly publishing

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  1. Copyright versus open access : on the organisation and international political economy of access to scientific knowledge

    Marc Scheufen. 2015

  2. Copyright versus open access : on the organisation and international political economy of access to scientific knowledge

    Marc Scheufen. 2015

  3. A guide to publishing for academics : inside the publish or perish phenomenon

    edited by Jay Liebowitz. 2015

Publishing Ethics

On Being a Scientist
On being a scientist : a guide to responsible conduct in research / Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, National Academy of Science, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
3rd ed. Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2009.
Chemistry & ChemEng Library (Swain) » Stacks » Q180 .A1 S35 2009
American Chemical Society publications - ethical guidelines
The ACS Journals' Ethical Guidelines are offered from a conviction that the observance of high ethical standards is so vital to the whole scientific enterprise that a definition of those standards should be brought to the attention of all concerned.
COPE: Committee on Publication Ethics
COPE is a forum for editors and publishers of peer-reviewed journals to discuss all aspects of publication ethics. It also advises editors on how to handle cases of research and publication misconduct.
Council of science editors' white paper on promoting integrity in scientific journal publications, 2009 update
The Council of Science Editors and its Editorial Policy Committee encourage everyone involved in the journal publishing process to take responsibility for promoting integrity in scientific journal publishing.
CrossCheck
CrossCheck powered by iThenticate is an initiative started by CrossRef to help its members actively engage in efforts to prevent scholarly and professional plagiarism.
Publishing ethics resource kit (PERK)
The Publishing Ethics Resource Kit (PERK) is an online resource to support journal editors in handling publishing ethics issues. It is a single point of access for information and guidelines on publishing ethics. PERK provides flowcharts to guide editors through processes required to deal with different forms of publishing ethics abuse. Provided by Elsevier.
Sense about science
We are a charitable trust that equips people to make sense of scientific and medical claims in public discussion. With a database of over 5,000 scientists, from Nobel prize winners to postdocs and PhD students, we work in partnership with scientific bodies, research publishers, policy makers, the public and the media, to change public discussions about science and evidence.
Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals: writing and editing for biomedical publications
The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors created the Uniform Requirements to help authors and editors in their mutual task of creating and distributing accurate, clear, easily accessible reports of biomedical studies. The initial sections address the ethical principles related to the process of evaluating, improving, and publishing manuscripts in biomedical journals and the relationships among editors and authors, peer reviewers, and the media.
U.S. department of health and human services. Office of research integrity
The Office of Research Integrity (ORI) oversees and directs Public Health Service (PHS) research integrity activities on behalf of the Secretary of Health and Human Services with the exception of the regulatory research integrity activities of the Food and Drug Administration.
U.S. national science foundation. Office of inspector general
Each federal agency has an Office of Inspector General (OIG) that provides independent oversight of the agency’s programs and operations. The office is responsible for promoting efficiency and effectiveness in agency programs and for preventing and detecting fraud, waste, and abuse.

Peer review

Is this a peer-reviewed source?

Peer review in 3 minutes (from NCSU)

Peer review

Sense about Science > Peer review
Sense About Science works with scientists and members of the public to change public debates and to equip people to make sense of science and evidence. Their publications include:
Do we still need peer review?
Do we still need peer review? : an argument for change / Thomas H.P. Gould.
Lanham : The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2013.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB2333 .G58 2013
Guardians of science : fairness and reliability of peer review
Guardians of science : fairness and reliability of peer review / H.-D. Daniel ; translated by William E. Russey.
Weinheim ; New York : VCH, c1993.
SAL1&2 (on-campus shelving) » Stacks » Q180.55 .E9 D36 1993
Peer review and manuscript management in scientific journals : guidelines for good practice
Peer review and manuscript management in scientific journals : guidelines for good practice / by Irene Hames.
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
Chemistry & ChemEng Library (Swain) » Stacks » Q225.5 .H255 2007
Peer review in health sciences
Peer review in health sciences [electronic resource] / edited by Fiona Godlee, Tom Jefferson.
2nd ed. London : BMJ Books, 2003.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Peer Review Handbook
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency peer review handbook [electronic resource] / prepared for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency by members of the Peer Review Advisory Group, for EPA's Science Policy Council.
3rd ed. Washington, DC : Science Policy Council, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, [2006?]
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)

Open access (OA)

Open Access Explained (by PhD. Comics)

Types of open access

  • Gold Open Access: Publication costs are covered by an 'Article Processing Fees' paid by authors upon acceptance. The final 'article of record' is made available to all, immediately, without any barriers to access.  Fees range from $800-$5,000 per article.
  • Green Open Access: A version of the paper (often the author's manuscript) is made available via a subject or institutional repository. An embargo period is often involved, typically 6-24 months. No payment is made, and publishers strive to recoup their investment through traditional sales during the embargo period. 
  • Delayed Open Access: The final version of the paper is made available by the publisher after an embargo period (e.g. publisher deposits the paper in PubMed Central after 12 months).

Open access spectrum

HowOpenIsIt? Open Access Spectrum

HowOpenIsIt? Open Access Spectrum
Open Access encompasses a range of components such as readership, reuse, copyright, posting and machine readability. Within these areas, publishers and funding agencies have adopted many different policies, some of which are more open and some less open. In general, the more a journal’s policies codify immediate availability and reuse with as few restrictions as possible, the more open it is.

Author rights

More information on copyright is located in Sci-tech: Ethics, IP, and data.

Stanford copyright reminder > Common situations > Publishing
When publishing, faculty and students need to pay special attention to the rights they have in their publications, and the rights they sign over to the publisher.  The rise of the Open Access movement, which aims to make research available online--free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions--has resulted in authors of scholarly works having a much wider array of licensing options than they have in the past.  Stanford generally doesn't mandate a copyright position for its community members who publish articles or books, although the Graduate School of Education has an Open Access Initiative.
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with the rules of copyright. They provide free licenses and other legal tools to mark creative work with the freedom the creator wants it to carry, so others can share, remix, use commercially, or any combination thereof.
SHERPA/RoMEO
Publisher copyright policies and self-archiving. Provided by the University of Nottingham, UK.

Research funder requirements

NIH Public Access Policy
To advance science and improve human health, NIH makes the peer-reviewed articles it funds publicly available on PubMed Central. The NIH public access policy requires scientists to submit final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that arise from NIH funds to PubMed Central immediately upon acceptance for publication.
Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States (CHORUS)
CHORUS is a suite of services and best practices that provides a sustainable solution for agencies and publishers to deliver public access to published articles reporting on funded research in the United States. More than 100 publishers – who collectively publish the vast majority of articles reporting on publicly funded research – have voiced their support for CHORUS.  New articles are continuously added and freely accessible to the public on the publishers’ sites, either immediately on publication or after a designated embargo period. Our search service enables users to discover articles reporting on funded research from our Publisher Members.
Data management plans - infomation for Stanford researchers
A data management plan (DMP) is a written document that describes the data you expect to acquire or generate during the course of a research project, how you will manage, describe, analyze, and store those data, and what mechanisms you will use at the end of your project to share and preserve your data.  Many funding agencies require a DMP with every funding request.  Each agency or directorate creates its own set of policies for data management.
SHERPA/JULIET
Research funders open access policies.  Provided by the University of Nottingham, UK.

Library books on open access

Open Access
Open access / Peter Suber.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2012.
Green Library » Stacks » Z286 .O63 S83 2012
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  1. Copyright versus open access : on the organisation and international political economy of access to scientific knowledge

    Marc Scheufen. 2015

  2. Copyright versus open access : on the organisation and international political economy of access to scientific knowledge

    Marc Scheufen. 2015

  3. Scholarly communications : a history from content as king to content as kingmaker

    John J. Regazzi. 2015

Websites about open access

Open Knowledge (Stanford Lane Medical Library)
At Stanford's Lane Medical Library & Knowledge Management Center our mission is to enable biomedical discovery by connecting people with knowledge.  As part of this mission, we advocate for open access to all forms of knowledge. The global Open Access movement has vastly increased access to journal articles, data sets, and other knowledge media. Yet, many of these valued scholarly resources are only available to those who pay for access.
Beall’s List: Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers
This is a list of questionable, scholarly open-access publishers. We recommend that scholars read the available reviews, assessments and descriptions provided here, and then decide for themselves whether they want to submit articles, serve as editors or on editorial boards.
Directory of Open Access Journals
The aim of the DOAJ is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals, thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. The DOAJ aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content.
Open Access Directory (OAD)
The Open Access Directory (OAD) is a compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship, maintained by the OA community at large. By bringing many OA-related lists together in one place, OAD makes it easier for everyone to discover them, use them for reference, and update them.  The OAD is hosted by the School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College and supervised by an independent editorial board.
SPARC > Issues > Open Access
Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles, coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment.
Transforming scholarly publishing through open access: A bibliography
Compiled by Charles W. Bailey, Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography, which has over 1,100 references, provides in-depth coverage of published journal articles, books, and other works about the open access movement. Many references have links to freely available copies of included works.

* Publishers & OA

Publisher OA programs - info for Stanford authors

This list is still "under construction."  For information about a publisher who is not on the list below or for more details about a publisher's OA program, please consult your Subject Librarian. 

ACS Open Access
The American Chemical Society's Open Access Program has four components: (1) ACS Central Science: A new open access journal that is free to readers and authors. (2) ACS Editors' Choice: Free public access to research of interest to the global community. (3) ACS Author Rewards: Credits to fund open access publishing options from ACS.  (Credits are managed in ACS ChemWorx and are valid through 31 December 2017.) (4) ACS Author Choice: Expanded open access publishing options for authors and their sponsors. (ACS is no longer depositing final accepted manuscripts into PubMed Central for free.) For more details, please see FAQs.
Electrochemical Society - Author choice open access
The Electrochemical Society is offering authors the choice of publishing their research as Open Access (OA) and many are able to do so for FREE!  Because the Stanford Libraries subscribe to ECS publications, the regular $800 article processing fee for OA, is waived for Stanford authors.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States - Open access option
Because we have a campus-wide site license, corresponding authors from Stanford University will receive a discounted open access fee of $1,000, compared to PNAS' regular fee of $1,350, to make their papers immediately free online. 
Public Library of Science (PLoS) - Publication fees
To provide Open Access, PLoS uses a business model to offset expenses – including those of peer review management, journal production and online hosting and archiving – by charging a publication fee to the authors, institutions or funders for each article published. Publication fees vary by journal and are payable for articles upon acceptance. Institutional funding is not available at Stanford to pay PLoS' fees.
Royal Society of Chemistry Journals - Free OA vouchers
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) recognizes that researchers are often being asked to publish Open Access (OA), but do not have the funding to pay for it directly.  To help address this gap, RSC is providing a limited number of OA vouchers to the Stanford Libraries for purchasing the Gold Package. 
SCOAP3
SCOAP3 is a one-of-its-kind partnership of thousands of libraries, key funding agencies and research centers in more than 40 countries. Working with leading publishers, SCOAP3 has converted key journals in the field of High-Energy Physics to Open Access at no cost for authors. SCOAP3 is centrally paying publishers for the costs involved in providing Open Access, publishers in turn reduce subscription fees to all their customers, who can contribute to SCOAP3.

* OA repositories

Selected repositories and services

Stanford Digital Repository (SDR)
The Stanford Digital Repository supports management of scholarly information resources of enduring value to Stanford University. Faculty, students, and researchers use SDR services to promote and protect the products of their work. Scholars around the world use content in the SDR in their research. The benefits of this service distinguish the SDR from other content storage or management options on campus: deposited content is preserved in a robust, reliable, and secure environment for access by scholars today and for generations to come.
Stanford Graduate Education Open Archive
An Open Access Motion was passed unanimously by the faculty of Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE) on June 10, 2008 and a similar motion was passed by Stanford GSE doctoral students with 95% support. These motions commit the faculty and students to making a copy of their peer-reviewed journal articles publicly and freely available through the Stanford GSE Open Archive. The motions exemplify the faculty and student’s commitment to sharing as widely as possible what we been able to learn about education from our research and scholarship.  Visit the GSE Open Archive.
Stanford Data Management Services
Data Management Services assists Stanford researchers with the organization, management, and curation of research data to enhance its preservation and access now and into the future.  This site will help you create and carry out a data management strategy that will preserve your valuable research data for future sharing and reuse.  Includes examples of publicly-accessible repositories for a particular subject domain where you can deposit your research data.
Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States (CHORUS)
CHORUS is a suite of services and best practices that provides a sustainable solution for agencies and publishers to deliver public access to published articles reporting on funded research in the United States. More than 100 publishers – who collectively publish the vast majority of articles reporting on publicly funded research – have voiced their support for CHORUS.  New articles are continuously added and freely accessible to the public on the publishers’ sites, either immediately on publication or after a designated embargo period. Our search service enables users to discover articles reporting on funded research from our Publisher Members.
PubMedCentral (PMC)
PubMed Central or PMC is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). Help information for NIH researchers and supporting admins: My NCBI Help, NCBI YouTube video tutorials, and PubMed Central Help.
Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies (ROARMAP)
The Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies (ROARMAP) is a searchable international registry charting the growth of open access mandates adopted by universities, research institutions and research funders that require their researchers to provide open access to their peer-reviewed research article output by depositing it in an open access repository.

Researcher/article metrics

Featured ebook

Beyond bibliometrics : harnessing multidimensional indicators of scholarly impact
Beyond bibliometrics : harnessing multidimensional indicators of scholarly impact / edited by Blaise Cronin and Cassidy R. Sugimoto.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)

Metrics for individuals and for articles

Altmetric
Altmetric tracks what people are saying about papers online on behalf of institutions, publishers, authors, libraries and institutions.  Researchers can complement their reading by instantly visualising a paper's online attention. Discover new scholarly articles in hundreds of disciplines, while monitoring your personal research impact in academia and beyond.
H-Index (PDF)
Hirsch, Jorge E. 2005. An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102 (46): 16569–16572.  DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0507655102   Abstract: I propose the index h, defined as the number of papers with citation number ≥h, as a useful index to characterize the scientific output of a researcher.
ImpactStory
"ImpactStory is an open-source, web-based tool that helps researchers explore and share the diverse impacts of all their research products—from traditional ones like journal articles, to emerging products like blog posts, datasets, and software. By helping researchers tell data-driven stories about their impacts, we're helping to build a new scholarly reward system that values and encourages web-native scholarship. We’re funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and incorporated as a nonprofit corporation."
PlumAnalytics
Plum™ Analytics was developed to give researchers and funders a data advantage when it come to conveying a more comprehensive and time impact of their output. They not only measure individual research artifacts, but also amass metrics for labs, departments and other meaningful groups. They collect impact metrics in 5 major categories: usage, captures, mentions, social media, and citations.  Plum Analytics tracks more than 20 different types of artifacts, including journal articles, books, videos, presentations, conference proceedings, datasets, source code, cases, and more.
Altimetrics bibliography
Compiled by Charles W. Bailey, Digital Scholarship has released the Altmetrics Bibliography, which includes over 50 selected English-language articles and technical reports that are useful in understanding altmetrics. Sources have been published from January 2001 through September 2013. (as of 15 Oct 2013)
Article-level metrics: A SPARC primer (PDF)
"Article-Level Metrics (ALMs) are rapidly emerging as important tools to quantify how individual articles are being discussed, shared, and used. This new SPARC primer is designed to give campus leaders and other interested parties an overview of what ALMs are, why they matter, how they complement established utilities and metrics, and how they might be considered for use in the tenure and promotion process."
NISO Alternative Assessment Metrics (Altmetrics) Project
In June 2013, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awarded NISO a grant to undertake a two-phase initiative to explore, identify, and advance standards and/or best practices related to a new suite of potential metrics in the community. This project is an important step in the development and adoption of new assessment metrics, which include usage-based metrics, social media references, and network behavioral analysis. In addition, this project will explore potential assessment criteria for non-traditional research outputs, such as data sets, visualizations, software, and other applications. After the first phase, which will expose areas for potential standardization, the community will collectively prioritize those potential projects. The second phase will be to advance and develop those standards/best practices prioritized by the community and approved by the membership.

Journal evaluation tools

Multidimensional journal evaluation : analyzing scientific periodicals beyond the impact factor
Multidimensional journal evaluation : analyzing scientific periodicals beyond the impact factor / Stefanie Haustein.
Berlin : De Gruyter/Saur, c2012.
Chemistry & ChemEng Library (Swain) » Stacks » Q225.5 .H38 2012
"Scientific communication depends primarily on publishing in journals. The most important indicator to determine the influence of a journal is the Impact Factor. Since this factor only measures the average number of citations per article in a certain time window, it can be argued that it does not reflect the actual value of a periodical. This book defines five dimensions, which build a framework for a multidimensional method of journal evaluation. The author is winner of the Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Scholarship 2011."
Journal Citation Reports - JCR 2013
ISI Journal citation reports [electronic resource].
[Philadelphia, Pa.] : Institute for Scientific Information, c1999-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Journal Citation Reports® offers a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate the world's leading journals, with quantifiable, statistical information based on citation data. By compiling articles' cited references, JCR Web helps to measure research influence and impact at the journal and category levels, and shows the relationship between citing and cited journals. Available in Science and Social Sciences editions. With JCR, authors and editors can identify the most appropriate, influential journals in which to publish, and researchers can discover where to find the current reading list in their respective fields. Journal Citation Reports Product Information. Journal Citation Reports Training.
Ulrich's periodical directory
Identify new journals, referred titles, and online titles in your discipline. Learn which databases or indexes to search for locating article level information in a journal.
ISI Journal Citation Reports
Provides easy access to data that helps you evaluate and compare scholarly journals. JCR can show you the highest impact journals, most frequently used journals, hottest journals, and largest journals. Search by journal title, publisher, subject category, or country.
Scimago Journal and Country Rank
Scimago is a portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus® database (Elsevier B.V.). These indicators can be used to assess and analyze scientific domains.
Journal Cost-Effectiveness Search
Use this search engine to find internationally-published journals and rank them by price per article or citation.
SHERPA/RoMEO
Use this site to find a summary of permissions that are normally given as part of each publisher's copyright transfer agreement.
Beall's List: Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers
This is a list of questionable, scholarly open-access publishers. We recommend that scholars read the available reviews, assessments and descriptions provided here, and then decide for themselves whether they want to submit articles, serve as editors or on editorial boards.

Books on bibliometrics

› See all 25 results
  1. Analysis and visualization of citation networks

    Dangzhi Zhao, Andreas Strotmann. 2015

  2. Library analytics and metrics : using data to drive decisions and services

    edited by Ben Showers. 2015

  3. Meaningful metrics : a 21st century librarian's guide to bibliometrics, altmetrics, and research impact

    Robin Chin Roemer & Rachel Borchardt. 2015

Journal abbreviations & DOIs

Journal abbreviations and DOIs

SciFinder - Core journals covered
Includes 1,500 key scientific journals are added to CAplus within 7 days.  This list is sorted by the full journal name but also includes the abbreviated title and the publication frequency.
Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index (CASSI) search tool
Has limited search capabilities.  Will display the first 50 matches of your search terms.
CASSI - Networked CDROM
Works with a browser and Citrix plugin.  Login with SUNet ID, select the Chemistry folder, and then choose CASSI.  Includes a more robust search interface than the web version but is no longer being updated.
Web of Science journal title abbreviations
This list shows the abbreviations used for journal titles as cited works.
Digital Object Identifier - Free DOI lookup
A DOI is a permanent address for a digital resource.  To convert a DOI to a URL, precede it with http://dx.doi.org/ . For example, doi:10.1006/jmbi.1998.2354 can be resolved as http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jmbi.1998.2354

Standards & guidelines

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.

NISO recommended practices

National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Recommended Practices are "best practices" or "guidelines" for methods, materials, or practices in order to give guidance to the user. These documents usually represent a leading edge, exceptional model, or a proven industry practice. Use of any or all elements of a Recommended Practice is discretionary; it may be used as stated or modified by the user to meet specific needs.

Journal Article Versions (JAV): Recommendations of the NISO/ALPSP JAV Technical Working Group
These recommendations provide a simple, practical way of describing the versions of scholarly journal articles that typically appear online before, during, and after formal journal publication. The Recommended Terms and Definitions for Journal Article Versions define journal articles at seven stages: Author's Original (AO), Submitted Manuscript Under Review (SMUR), Accepted Manuscript (AM), Proof (P), Version of Record (VoR), Corrected Version of Record (CVoR), and Enhanced Version of Record (EVoR). The appendices include a set of use cases showing application of the recommended terms and a graphical representation of journal article versions and relationships with formal and gray literature. The publication is the result of a partnership between NISO and the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP).
Recommended Practices for Online Supplemental Journal Article Materials
These recommended practices are intended to help the scholarly publishing community develop a more standardized approach to publishing what has become known as Supplemental Materials for Journal Articles in a rapidly changing technology environment. The intent is to lessen the burden on all of the parties engaged in the publishing process, to ensure that Supplemental Materials delivered in connection with journal articles add substance to the scholarship, to make Supplemental Materials more discoverable, and to aid in preserving them.
The Presentation & Identification of E-Journals
This Recommended Practice provides guidance on the presentation of e-journals—particularly in the areas of title presentation, accurate use of ISSN, and citation practices—to publishers and platform providers. It is also intended to solve some long-standing concerns of serials, collections, and electronic resources librarians. In addition to the recommendations, the document includes extensive examples of good practices using screenshots from various publishers’ online journals platforms; a discussion of helpful resources for obtaining title history and ISSN information; an overview of the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) and key points for using it correctly; an explanation of the Digital Object Identifier (DOI®), the registration agency CrossRef, and tips on using DOIs for journal title management; and a review of related standards and recommended practices.