Finding relevant conferences
- Think. Check. Attend. - Follow this check list to help choose the right conference to attend and present your research.
- Calls for papers can be found in the Papers Invited section of Pivot.
Choosing a journal
Consider if this is the right journal for your work:
Impact measurements:
Open access considerations:
Understanding your rights as an author
Copyright:
- Search SHERPA/RoMEO for the name of a journal to find out the publisher copyright policies.
- The Canadian Association of Research Libraries provides valuable information for authors, including the use of the Canadian author addendum to hold on to certain rights.
- Creative Commons can be used to assign rights to your works, such as presentation slides.
Open access repositories:
- eScholarship: McGill's institutional repository.
- ROAR: Registry of Open Access Repositories
- Disciplinary repositories:
Profiles
- ORCID: Create a unique, persistent identifier and obtain a researcher profile that you can keep up to date.
- Google Scholar Citations: Create a profile that will be automatically populated (provides citation counts and h-index).
- Scopus Author ID: Claim your author profile (provides citation counts and h-index).
- Web of Science ResearcherID: Build your profile in Web of Science (provides citation counts and h-index).
Promoting your work