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Workshop: How to make your research open

Erin C. McKiernan

Postdoctoral FellowDepartment of PsychologyWilfrid Laurier University

Visiting ScholarInstitute of MathematicsNational Autonomous University of Mexico

Ross Mounce

Postdoctoral ResearcherUniversity of Bath

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PREPARING YOUR MANUSCRIPT

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Manuscript preparation with writeLATEX

• writeLATEX is a free service

• allows new users to learn LATEX

• allows experienced users to collaborate on docs with new users

• many journals provide article templates - need for formatting by hand!

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Getting started with writeLATEX

Upload your tex and any sty files as a zip archive

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Sharing your work on writeLaTeX gallery

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Direct submission from writeLATEX to journals

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POSTING PREPRINTS

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Which journals allow preprints?

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A journal doing it right - PeerJ

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A journal who could do better - Neuron

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Where can I post preprints? arXiv

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Where can I post preprints? bioarXiv

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Where can I post preprints? figshare

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Example of preprint on figshare

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Where can I post preprints? PeerJ PrePrints

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Example of preprint on PeerJ

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CHOOSING A JOURNAL

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Directory of Open Access Journals

doaj.org

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Thomson Reuters Open Access Journal List

science.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-bin/linksj/opensearch.cgi

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Cofactor Journal Selector Tool

Can filter for subject, open access options, Impact Factor, and more!

cofactorscience.com/journal-selector

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What are your licensing options?

creativecommons.org/choose/

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SELF-ARCHIVING YOUR ARTICLES

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Which journals allow self-archiving?

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A journal doing it right - PeerJ

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figshare

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SHARING YOUR DATA

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Sharing data with figshare

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Sharing data with Data Dryad

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Best practices for data sharing

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SPREADING THE WORD

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Using Twitter to amplify your reach

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Use Wordpress to explain your research

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TRACKING YOUR IMPACT

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Show your real impact with altmetrics

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Building altmetrics into your CV

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