Publishing

Publishing

W&M Libraries can help you with your publication. We have books on book publishing. You can also contact W&M's Publishing and Open Access Librarian or use the following resources to find a journal for your publication or to discuss terms of your current or potential author agreements. 

Sources for finding a journal to publish your article

There are several things you will want to do to get your name out there as a scholar, or at the very least as someone who's interested in a particular topic. These are:

• Create a LinkedIn profile: LinkedIn is the world's largest professional networking tool with more than 530 million users in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide
• Create an ORCID ID:  ORCID is a nonprofit organization that offers a free 16-digit identifier (“ORCID iD”) to academic authors and other contributors to research and scholarship. This ID number allows researchers to connect themselves with their works and affiliations so their outputs can be correctly attributed to creator(s) and aggregated and tracked throughout their careers. More than 3.8 million ORCID iDs have already been minted. ORCID has produced a fun and informative video that provides an overview of their services: https://vimeo.com/97150912
• Create a Google Scholar site: Once you create a profile and identify yourself and your publications, GS will update the number of times they have been cited automatically. Keep in mind that Google Scholar is only one way to assess impact for your publications. Others are listed on our Journal Impact page.

Predatory journals are part of an exploitive open access publishing business model involving charging authors publication fees without providing editorial and other publishing services associated with legitimate journals (open access or not).