Tenure and Promotion at William & Mary

ORCID provides a persistent identifier – an ORCID iD – that distinguishes you from other researchers and a mechanism for linking your research outputs and activities to your iD. You can learn more about ORCiD and create an iD by visiting https://orcid.wm.edu/. 

Once you've created an ORCiD, you can use your iD to submit publications, and you can link to your iD on your William & Mary faculty profile page.

You can improve your visibility by publishing your pre- and post-prints in W&M ScholarWorks, William & Mary's institutional repository. By publishing in W&M ScholarWorks, you can increase the discoverability of your work, contribute to open access publishing, obtain access to W&M ScholarWorks-specific impact metrics, and preserve your files. 

If you're unsure about whether or not you have permission to self-archive your work, or you want to self-archive an upcoming publication, you can reach out to a librarian to discuss tactics for negotiating copyright and/or to review your publishing agreement. 

Methods for increasing visibility (and their acceptability) vary in each discipline.The following are merely suggestions/ideas to get you thinking:

• Include publications in an online Subject Repository - such as AgEcon Search, arXiv.org, RePEc, SSRN, etc.
• Publish in an Open Access journal or self-archive it (if publisher allows).
• Publish/share data associated with your research
• Publish in an online journal with search features allowing users to find articles that cite it. For example, see "cited by" features in Highwire Press journal articles.
• Share publications using social networking tools such as Mendeley, ResearchGate,twitter, SlideShare, figshare, blogs, etc.
• Create an online presence utilizing tools such as ORCiD ID, Google Scholar Citations profile, or LinkedIn and link to your profile on university webpages, vitae, and/or within email signatures.
• List/link publications on personal websites or university webpages that are trawled by Google Scholar - specifically not behind a login screen such as that of WebCT, Blackboard, or Moodle.
• List as recommended reading on a course website (but not buried behind a login).
• Bone up on how to influence Google page rankings - Facebook shares, back links, and tweets are the top ways to increase page visibility in search engine result pages.
• Keywords and abstracts play a vital role in researchers retrieving an article - especially for indexes or search engines that do not have the full-text of the article available. Be sure to identify numerous synonyms and use terms that you used in conducting your own literature review.
• Publish thought-provoking, critical pieces or literature reviews - these traditionally have higher citation rates as do those dealing with hot topics.

This guide was reused and adapted from Promotion & Tenure Resource Guide, by Iowa State University Library. Available: https://instr.iastate.libguides.com/c.php?g=49493&p=318774.