- ORCID
- SCIENTIST IN THE WORLD OF JOURNALS
- RECOMMEND "RESEARCHER'S WORKSHOP" - PORTAL OF PROF. EMANUEL KULCZYCKI
- PRINCIPLES OF COLLECTING SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE LIBRARY OF THE LAZARSKI UNIVERSITY
- SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING - COURSES AND WORKSHOPS
- PILOT PROGRAM OF PUBLISHING IN ELSEVIER JOURNALS
- LIST OF SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS, PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCE MATERIALS
ORCID
What is ORCID?
ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a digital, unique identifier used to
to distinguish a researcher in the global scientific space. It is supposed to eliminate the problem of duplicate author names, eliminate different versions of the name record, and clarify the identity of the researcher.
ORCID was established in 2010, as a non-profit organization provides a free and independent
from commercial publishers, a registry that ultimately aims to become the standard for identifying authors of scientific publications.
The identifier consists of 16 digits divided into 4 parts, stored in HTTP URL format
e.g. orcid.org/0000-0002-9079-593X ORCID by Stephen Hawking.
In accordance with the Law on Higher Education and Science (Journal of Laws 2018, item 1668, as amended), ORCID has been designated as a mandatory element in the parametric evaluation process (Regulation of the Minister of Science and Higher Education of March 6, 2019 on data processed
in the POL-on Integrated Information System for Higher Education and Science, Dz. U. 2019, item 496). It is also to be a mandatory element in the process of parametric evaluation of scientific units.
The rules for establishing ORCID at Our University are regulated by the Rector's Order of April 9, 2019 on the obligation for employees conducting scientific activities to obtain the
and doctoral students at Lazarski University to obtain the ORCID electronic researcher identifier.
The Ordinance includes, among other things:
"Paragraph 1, point 3. Employees conducting scientific activity providing work on the date of entry into force of this Ordinance and doctoral students applying for a doctoral degree with scientific achievements within the meaning of the Regulation on Evaluation and other scientific achievements shall be obliged to:
obtain an international electronic researcher identifier ORCID within 30 days from the entry into force of this Ordinance,
supplement the ORCID account with profile data and data on scientific achievements created after December 31, 2016 within 3 months from the issuance of this Ordinance,
supplement data on scientific achievements prior to December 31, 2016 within 6 months from the date of issuance of this Order,
to complete the ORCID profile data within a period not exceeding 21 days after the publication.
Item 4: Each individual ORCID account of the persons listed in paragraphs 1 - 3 should provide public access to the profile data.
Point 5: When registering an account in ORCID, persons referred to in paragraphs 1 - 3 shall provide the name of Lazarski University in English form: Lazarski University."
Why is it worth it?
Identification of the achievements of a particular researcher
Facilitates identification proceedings in case of plagiarism or copyright assertion
Simplifies the registration procedure when sending articles to publishers (e.g. Wiley, Springer) and when submitting grant applications, e.g. in the HORIZONT 2020 program
Enables automatic data exchange between author profiles in ORCID, Web of Science (ResearcherID) and Scopus databases. Publications from such databases WoS, SCOPUS and CrossRef will be added automatically.
Facilitating the linking of scientific papers to the author in case of:
Name changes
Names containing diacritical marks
Distinguishing the output of researchers in the same field
Consolidation of the author's works regardless of the affiliation included in them
Error in the recording of data
How to set up ORCID?
We go to the website orcid.org
On the home page, select Register now! Or Sign In, and then Register now!
According to the instructions, we fill out the registration form
We determine who can see our profile. In order to take full advantage of the ORCID features, choose everyone or trusted parties
A message will come to the email address provided during registration, asking us to confirm that we are the owner.
Instructions for setting up an ORCID account (pdf).
Instructions for setting up a PBN account and connecting to ORCID (video, Information Processing Center).
SCIENTIST IN THE WORLD OF JOURNALS
Scientist in the world of journals
Observing the variety of paths to authorial success, librarians generally recommend that researchers view publications as a link in a sequence of events marking their place in the scientific community, rather than simply as "achieving a score" in formal evaluation processes.
An author who...
has achieved a valuable research result
professionally prepared the text of the publication
made sure that the form of the publication was convincing, and the reach and reputation of the chosen medium guaranteed to reach many people
... is likely to receive due citations over time, and before that he will note other phenomena related to entering the network, such as invitations to conferences, invitations to editorial boards, participation in research ventures, etc. He will thus come into possession of inspiring data, information or opinions that will lead him to the next valuable research result.
Citation - contrary to stereotypes - is not a matter of course. There are many source materials whose acquisition and quality are the primary concerns of the researcher, but which will never reciprocate us with citations, such as:
Company data and other materials from portals published anonymously
Laboratory data
Historical and archival sources
Most journalistic and media sources
Some expert opinions
Legal acts of all levels.
Thus, the scientific journal is a specific medium, often absent from the workshop of even advanced authors. However, journals, in the pages of which scholars communicate with each other, leading to the agreement of fundamental scientific claims and opinions, have played a fundamental role in the history of science. Today, it is journal articles that are the most important object in the Virtual Library of Science (national license), databases subscribed to by consortia and other databases available to members of our university community, locally and remotely. An alphabetical list of these databases is available on the University Library's website: https://www.lazarski.pl/pl/wydzialy-i-jednostki/biblioteka-uczelniana/bazy-danych-i-zrodla-informacji/
The value of a scientific journal is determined primarily by the citations it has obtained in the past. They are measured in various ways and determine by promotion the quality of the work accepted for publication ("inheritance of prestige", "pension of confidence").
Indicators that determine a journal's "influence" are generally based on the number of citations. The most seriously considered is the Journal Impact Factor, given - in various variations - by the Web of Science database and its Journal Citation Reports supplement. The measure here is the ratio of the number of publications that have received citations to the total number of publications (in the selected period). Thus, an example calculation might look like this:
2017 Journal Impact Factor (JIF) = 404/158 = 2.557
where in the numerator we have the citations of publications from 2015 and 2016, obtained in 2017, while in the denominator we have the number of publications in 2015 and 2016 in the pages of the selected journal (here: Annalen der Physik).
However, this indicator is calculated for relatively few journals.
An indicator by which journals, institutions and authors are also evaluated is the Hirsch Index (Hirsch Index, h), which can be defined as the number of articles each of which has been cited as many or more times. It does not exclude anyone, since any h > 0 "counts." Therefore, it can also be found in our individual profiles in Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.pl, My Profile tab. Google Scholar as a bibliography is created automatically, therefore it also takes into account publications (and their citations) that are not scientific in nature, so it usually brings us a "better score" than other services. An overlay to the various bibliometric databases is the Publish or Perish service, which anyone can install free of charge on their computer (https://harzing.com/resources/publish-or-perish).
The higher the h-index, the better it indicates the productivity of the author (number of publications) harmonized with the quality of his work (number of citations). A large number of lower-cited publications or high citations, but obtained by a smaller number of publications, usually yields an h-index similar to that of a moderately productive and moderately cited author. To give an example of a highly cited author, let's use the work of economist Paul Romer. This 2018 recipient of the Bank of Sweden's Alfred Nobel Prize in Economics has an h-index of h = 23. The Publish or Perish service, however, if we set it to retrieve data from Google Scholar, gives us h = 48 for Professor Romer. We also have to tell ourselves that many otherwise well-regarded scientists have single-digit h-indexes in GS and PoP, and none in Web of Science.
The Ministry of Science and Higher Education's guide (https://konstytucjadlanauki.gov.pl/content/uploads/2019/03/ewaluacja-jakosci-dzialalnosci-naukowej-przewodnik20190305.pdf) points to the Web of Science and Scopus databases as counting in the evaluation, but if some specific measure requires citation rates for individual scholars, and the accompanying regulations do not indicate the source of the data, we believe that applicants, while naturally they should use the "most ambitious" service, can use any by name. It is also true that the measurement of citability can occur, for example, when evaluating a journal applying for indexing in a prestigious database - the evaluation team then pays attention not only to the overall score, but also to the indicators that characterize the editors.
Lists of journals published by institutions such as the Ministry of Science and Higher Education contain scores made on the basis of numerical indicators, but also - team expert assessment. Thus, they do not aspire to full transparency.
In addition to the prospect of obtaining a specific point bonus, the author should also be interested in whether the journal is indexed in databases (which the editors usually inform about) and on what terms it is distributed. Print-only scholarly journals no longer exist or don't count at all, although until recently they were subscribed to in hard copy and it was possible to check how many and in which libraries they were available. Electronic journals are rarely subscribed to as individual titles; rather, they are subject to aggregation on a separate portal by
publishers (like De Gruyter Poland)
aggregators (like EBSCOhost) or
individual databases (like Medline),
which can be subscribed to library collections.
The user can always search for a specific journal (as a title with a unique ISSN number) within the publisher's portal, aggregator service or database available in the library, and through them, the journal article (usually with a unique DOI number). More recently, readers can also search for journals from the library regardless of the platform that aggregates them, and even articles regardless of the journal in which they appeared, as they are included in the library's online catalog. This is especially true for journal titles. As for the articles held, the catalog primarily registers publications by university staff, since the journals in the aforementioned services and databases are too numerous to include them all. However, if the library has a scientific integrated search engine (discovery and delivery service, sometimes also called "multi-search engine" in Poland), any article from a subscribed journal can be searched from the library, regardless of the platform.
In addition, there are journals available free of charge on the open Internet. They, too, can be searched through databases, portals, library catalogs, repositories, etc., and the broadest (but selective) tool grouping them is the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), https://doaj.org/. The content of these journals is often accessible through various platforms. Usually a dedicated website leads to them, often - the publisher's platform and other merge services. Various more or less functional and aesthetically pleasing tools for searching and penetrating the texts offered by the journal can be obtained in this way; sometimes it is difficult to get a handle on it. It is a worthy endeavor to correctly assess the value of the journal as a medium to make our texts as widely available as possible.
"Classic" Open Access journals make their publications available under so-called open licenses. These define the mutual obligations of publisher and user; the most refined (and therefore prestigious) are Creative Commons licenses, https://creativecommons.pl/. This is not synonymous with the financial model of the journal; it can - like commercial journals, which you have to subscribe to as a title or as a package - charge for publication. These are by no means shoddy journals or doomed to low bibliometric indicators. Although the hybrid form of the journal market - valuable but also sometimes very expensive titles alongside equally valuable open-access ones - has persisted for two decades, much to the bewilderment of authors and librarians, as a rule, every publisher that has built its reputation on paid journals tries to have open-access journals in its repertoire as well. "Open" journals, on the other hand, do not always make 100% of their content available under open licenses.
The usual source of information on the world's top journals is the Journal Citation Reports service, a supplement to the Web of Science database, available free of charge (for targeted users) under a national license at all scientific institutions in Poland. It covered nearly 12,000 journal titles from 80 countries in 2018, used in scientific citation indexes published as part of the Web of Science base collection (that is, without the Emerging Sources Citation Index); their averaged Journal Impact Factor increased by 10% from FY 2017, and the top-ranked journals had JIFs reaching 100.
Web of Science's publisher, Clarivate Analytics, also has a list of journals indexed in all its services. This is the Master Journal List, formerly known in Poland as the "Philadelphia list," http://mjl.clarivate.com. It currently counts nearly 25,000 titles out of at least 100,000 published worldwide. Here, in particular, it is worth looking for relevant periodicals when considering where to publish one's own work, not counting, after all, that many of them will have a calculated Journal Impact Factor.
Of course, journals not yet indexed in major databases or covered by the platforms of prestigious publishers or aggregators may be worthy of consideration. It is the author's prowess to recognize not only peer-reviewed journals extensively indexed and high-scoring, but also simply that - titles carrying valuable and innovative content, crisply run, with ergonomic organization of the reading screen and functional, clear search apparatus, having good marketing and prospects. Supplements and illustrations suitable for separation in separate windows, the possibility of preserving the text in different formats, the presence of editorials, letters to the editor and reviews, usually allows the reader to become attached to this particular journal.
The circulation of one's own texts can be helped by working with the publisher, and especially with the editor in charge of the issue, to ensure that our article
provides correctly standardized affiliation data of the author and his ORCID number
included an individual DOI article number
provided bibliographic data of the article, if possible according to various standards, also in a version readable by computer software
contained a convincing scientific apparatus, with consistently applied, standardized, complete bibliographic descriptions of the cited literature, which will not be distorted in computer processing
had careful proofreading performed after proofs/prooffiles were made
in the case of open access journals, listed the license used; in the case of commercial journals, listed the deadline after which the author will be entitled to transfer the work to the public domain.
It should be remembered that the conjunction of DOI and ORCID numbers gives us the ability to automatically feed our profile in ORCID with data on publications, and in the future - to automatically enter our work into the Polish Scientific Bibliography (cf. https://www.lazarski.pl/pl/wydzialy-i-jednostki/biblioteka-uczelniana/biblioteka-wspiera-autorow/).
These minimum requirements do not, of course, fulfill all the expectations of the author, who - having delivered the finished text - has the right to expect careful editing, which may end up with the need to make many arrangements with editors. In the case of using a translator, you should make sure that you get the text in its final form, in addition to any clarifications and wishes regarding the terminology used. The editors should also ensure that the text is verified by an expert editor after translation, and avoid errors that arouse the reader's suspicions about the reliability of the publication's preparation, such as tables, charts and figures transferred from elsewhere without thorough source documentation, lack of transliteration of the non-Latin script used, graphic design devoid of taste and style, archaic appendix bibliography with separately separated "Internet literature," etc.
As we said, open access journals often have content available on different platforms, with different graphics and functionalities. The same is now true for articles published in paid journals, but "reprinted" by the author after a grace period specified by the author's contract. The author can also make his or her publication available through a scientific social network, such as Academia.edu or ResearchGate. In this way, you can inform of the existence of your text, topic or person to another participant in the service, who has not searched for any of these things, but has simply specified his interests or let the system's algorithms do it for him. We can also get information about the activities and publications of other authors, including the full texts of their articles, etc. We know authors who almost never leave these services and owe a lot to them. Others, on the other hand, conduct independent, independent searches in traditional electronic sources of information. Traditional non-electronic sources, for example, card catalogs, printed bibliographies or archival repertories, also exist and should not be overlooked, since not everything has already been digitized. If the need arises, the Library will help use them as well.
WE RECOMMEND THE "RESEARCHER'S WORKSHOP" - PORTAL OF PROF. EMANUEL KULCZYCKI
Dr. hab. Emanuel Kulczycki, prof. of UAM, philosopher and scientist, publishes on the open Internet his
(and colleagues) thoughts and advice, dedicated to the communicative circumstances of doing science in Poland, especially - bibliometric indicators and data, evaluation and parameterization, principles of scientific editing. He also comments on all new legislation. We find the information contained in this blog, which has become a portal with rich content, very useful for authors and for university authorities; librarians and science publishers are already accustomed to look there. Here we start: http://ekulczycki.pl/warsztat_badacza/.
We especially recommend Guides, http://ekulczycki.pl/poradnik/:
Indexing Journals (by Aneta Drabek)
Open journals (by Emanuel Kulczycki)
How to add papers to Google Scholar and increase citation count and Hirsch index (by Emanuel Kulczycki)
A compilation with the perhaps somewhat misleading title List of Scored Journals contains, in addition to the lists published by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, a number of statements on journal scoring rules,
including the 2018 report: http://ekulczycki.pl/warsztat_badacza/raport-o-polskich-czasopismach-naukowych-stan-na-grudzien-2017-r/
We also particularly recommend:
http://ekulczycki.pl/warsztat_badacza/czy-polskie-wydawnictwa-naukowe-recenzuja-monografie/
RULES FOR COLLECTING SCHOLARLY OUTPUT IN THE LIBRARY OF LAZARSKI UNIVERSITY
Instead of an introduction, that is, what is it all for?
It is the practice of many academic libraries to collect and document the scholarly output of scholars associated with a particular university. After all, who, if not the library, has the best tools for this, methods developed over the years and properly prepared people?
This collection and documentation can take a variety of forms and serve a variety of purposes: it ranges from ensuring that the library's collection of publications is as complete as possible, to maintaining institutional repositories, to purely bibliographic activities.
The simplest benefit of these activities is the dissemination of information about the achievements of lecturers, working at a given university, and providing access to them - it seems quite obvious that a reader, interested in the works of a given scholar, can look for them precisely in the library of his home institution. It happens that publications that have appeared in smaller editions or, for example, abroad, may be difficult or completely unavailable elsewhere. Therefore, it is good if the author makes sure that they are at least in the university library.
The cognitive, scientific or even marketing gains that the complete registration of scientific achievements can bring go hand in hand with a slightly more mundane, but no less important, use of this type of data for all kinds of reporting: from the level of internal evaluation of employees or units of the university, to the evaluation of the quality of scientific activity, conducted every four years by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, among others, based on information collected in the Polish Scientific Bibliography. This is the solution adopted at Lazarski University, which is regulated by the Rector's Order of May 10, 2019 on the evaluation of academic teachers.
What to submit for registration?
However different the channels of scholarly communication may be, it should be remembered that libraries generally collect those works that have been fixed in the form of publications. Also, the Law on Higher Education and Science (Journal of Laws 2018, item 1668), speaking of "achievements" that are subject to evaluation, points to monographs and journal articles (Article 265(9)). So, that is, what has been recorded, subjected to the review process and published, with certain standards of scientific editing, and it does not matter whether the text appeared in print or electronically.
The Ordinance of the Minister of Science and Higher Education dated 22.02.2019 on the evaluation of the quality of scientific activity (Journal of Laws 2019, item 392) in paragraph 8 clarifies what achievements are subject to evaluation, indirectly indicating what kind of works should go to the Library for registration:
articles published in scientific journals and in peer-reviewed materials from international scientific conferences,
scientific monographs (whereby both authorship and scientific editing of the monograph are taken into account),
chapters in scientific monographs.
Of course, there are no objections to authors submitting to the Library works that are not subject to ministerial evaluation (books that do not meet the formal criteria for recognition as scientific monographs, articles published in journals not included in the lists of scoring journals) - after all, they also enrich the author's oeuvre and the Library's collection, as do "scored" publications.
How to submit publications?
First of all: on an ongoing basis. The aforementioned Rector's order gives the deadline "immediately after publication, no later than within two weeks" (para. 2, para. 6).
Second: with a statement for the purpose of evaluation, prepared by the Department of Personal Affairs based on Article 265 of the Law on Higher Education and Science (Article 265, paragraph 13). A sample of the statement can be downloaded from the website or obtained directly from the Library. Importantly, you can sign the form by hand and deliver a paper version to the Library or submit an electronic version signed with a qualified electronic signature.
All other steps are characterized by a certain amount of discretion; over several years of the University Library's registration of scholarly output, different patterns of procedure have developed, depending on the preferences of the individual author. All of them are equally good, as long as they allow the entire process to be carried out smoothly.
You can submit your publication directly to the Library (preferably immediately to room 148, although the Lending Library is also a good place), but you can also use the intermediary of the dean's office in your department.
If the work is in electronic form, you can submit it by email to a.honcharova@lazarski.edu.pl. It is enough to send a link (when the full text is in free access) or a link along with a pdf file (if access to the text requires a fee or login). However, this does not release the author from the obligation to provide a signed statement.
The easiest way is to bring the entire publication. Of course, the Library will be grateful if you donate it, but it is understood that there is not always such an opportunity. In that case, the book or magazine notebook is returned to the owner after the librarian has made copies of the necessary passages.
The author can also make a photocopy of his work himself and give it to the Library in this form. The elements that such a copy should contain vary somewhat depending on whether the lecturer is the author or editor of the entire book, or the author of a chapter or article.
For a whole book, you need:
title page and editorial page,
the last numbered page of the book,
the entire table of contents,
author/editor affiliation page.
For a chapter you need:
title and editorial page of the book,
the last numbered page of the book,
the entire table of contents,
a page with the chapter author's affiliation information,
a minimum of the first and last pages, and preferably the entire text of the chapter.
For an article you need:
a minimum of the first and last page, and preferably the entire text of the article,
A page with information about the affiliation of the author of the article,
a page with information about the title, number and year of the journal.
For books, chapters or articles, published by Lazarski University Publishing Office, it is not necessary to provide a copy of the publication - it is enough to submit the statement itself.
If you have any questions or doubts - feel free to contact us, also by the most convenient way for the author (in person, by phone or e-mail).
What next, that is, where does information about Lazarski University employees' publications go?
The primary place of registration of scientific achievements submitted to the Library is the library catalog. Here you can search for both those publications that are physically in the Library's collection, as well as those that the Library does not have, but which have been submitted by the authors - they are then marked with the note "Bibliographic description only/Bibliographic description only".
In addition, all publications, entered into the catalog, are grouped in the annual "Scientific achievements of Lazarski University employees" listings.
For greater transparency, parallel lists of lecturers' publications are maintained on the University's website, also broken down by year.
Data from the library system is exported to a local database, which, unlike the catalog, is not accessible from the outside. In this form, they can be further processed by departments and the Human Resources Department. From here they are also further transferred to the Polish Scientific Bibliography.
SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING - COURSES AND WORKSHOPS
The issue of scientific publishing continues to arouse great interest. There is a proliferation of courses offered to authors who would like to increase their writing skills and more effectively locate the results of their research or their opinions in good journals and collective works. Classes in the form of short workshops on specific aspects of publishing are usually provided by large university libraries. Longer meetings, especially full-day ones, are offered by numerous commercial institutions. The University Library receives such announcements and is eager to share them (a.zielinska@lazarski.edu.pl).
Here is a sample content of a course, organized by one experienced provider. In our opinion, it points out all the necessary components of the publishing process and convincingly emphasizes the importance of substantive elements, impossible to fully handle with the formalistic approach to "meeting the requirements" imposed by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the evaluating institutions, and under the hurried conditions in which the author often operates. From ourselves, we would add a concern for the scientific apparatus of the text - a careful recognition of the bibliographic standard or "style" expected by the publisher and an awareness on the part of all participants in the publishing venture that the selection and precise provision of data about the author and the published work, as well as the works referenced in the text, including tables and figures produced by the author or taken over from elsewhere, largely determines the possibility of the text entering the world circulation of scientific citations. Reflecting this circulation is the main task of the Scopus and Web of Science databases.
Introduction to scientific publishing
What is scientific publishing
International scientific journals
Scientific publishing in Poland
Why we publish
Before we start writing
How to choose a journal
Types of scientific articles
Publication quality and citations
Impact factors
Open access
Preparation for writing: literature review
Author's workshop
Technique of writing scientific texts
Components of an article
Paragraphs as components of the text
Structure of the article and the main idea
Effective presentation of results
Reviewing and proofreading the text
Effective use of the English language
The process of submitting an article to a journal
Checklist before submitting to a journal
The online journal support system
Letter to the Editor
Copyright
Plagiarism
Intellectual property
Peer-review process
What is peer-review
The role of the editor and reviewer
Response scenarios from the journal
The process of improving a text
Preparing the response to the journal
After the article has been submitted
Article in final layout
Formalities after acceptance of the article
Promoting the article
Acting as a reviewer
PILOT PROGRAM FOR PUBLISHING IN JOURNALS OF ELSEVIER PUBLISHING HOUSE
Elsevier Publishing House, under an agreement with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the Interdisciplinary Center for Mathematical and Computational Modeling as operator of the Virtual Library of Science, announces a call for articles for about 1360 journals, mainly medical, published in Open Access and hybrid models. The essence of the project is the possibility of covering the cost of publication with the funds of a national license (i.e., without charging the author or his affiliating institution) or giving a discount of 30% of the cost of publication (from 450 to 4600 euros per article).
Information about the program can be found here: https://wbn.icm.edu.pl/licencje/#elsevier_oa, and you can also separately view the (non-final) list of participating journals:
http://vls.icm.edu.pl/zasady/2019/Elsevier/czasopisma_elsevier_w_programie_oa.pdf
On this list we find Open Access journals (all articles available on the open Internet) and Hybrid OA journals (some articles open access, others available only in local networks of subscribing institutions). The Ministry will still identify (planned: by the end of July) the journals in which articles funded entirely by the program can be published. We will announce the start of the call for papers with a separate announcement.
LIST OF SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS, PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCE MATERIALS
Search engine for scientific journals, publications and conference materials in accordance with the list published on the website of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education on 17.12-18.12.2019.
https://wykazy.net.pl/