Overview:

What are the options for communicating your research in a digital environment? How is publishing evolving and how do you choose the most appropriate platform for your target audience? This series of workshops will explore some of the options available to help you make informed choices when planning your publication strategy.   

The interactive session is aimed principally at researchers in the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine. Although you will be encouraged you to think about a range of options for publishing your research, based on your target audience and the message you want to communicate, the focus will be on choosing a publication venue for your journal article. There will be an opportunity to explore a range of tools to help you to evaluate journals and start to develop a priority list of titles to approach.  

Who should attend?

University of Warwick Research Active Staff (staff on Research-focussed, Teaching-focussed and Research & Teaching Contracts) and PhD Students.

Workshop enables delegates to:

In this session, you can expect to:  

• Examine your own motivations for publishing and what you want to communicate  
• Investigate tools to help you evaluate different scholarly journal titles and trade publications  
• Consider how Open Access requirements might influence your choice of journal  
• Learn more about journal impact factors, how to find them and when they might be useful  
• Start to develop a list of journals that are relevant to your own area of research   

Vitae Development Framework:    

Knowledge and intellectual abilities: A1  

Personal effectiveness: B2, B3  

Engagement, influence and impact: D2   

Workshop Pre-work:
Any pre-work for this workshop will be emailed to delegates

Led by:
Julie Robinson, Scholarly Communications Manager, The Library