Wrap-Up
In this lesson, we covered the following topics:
- Matching your topic to your audience
- An overview of publication types and presentations that may lead to publications
- Identifying and evaluating potential journals
- Identifying the elements of research proposals and abstracts
We hope this lesson was useful in getting to better know what and where to publish and that you feel prepared to further explore your research plans. If you choose to move on to Course 4, Lesson 2, you’ll learn about the purpose of the literature review The process of summarizing, synthesizing and/or critiquing literature around a specific topic/idea. This work can help a researcher understand what has happened before and also how past research intersects and or diverges from other research. A literature review can be a full-length manuscript or a subsection within a larger research article. and start to work on your own.
You may also be interested in the following lessons:
Further Learning
- Drawing the line: Why We Publish Where We Publish
- How Do You Even Analyze & Publish? A Librarian Parlor Series, Part III
- Picking a Journal, A Librarian Parlor Series, Part I
- Picking a Journal, Part II: Your Journal Choice Influences You, A Librarian Parlor Series
- Webinar Recap: Walking the Talk: Modeling Practice through Open Monograph Publishing
- Sharing Your Research with the World: An Exploration of Conference Mediums and Effective Presentations
- Why You Should Consider Going to Non-Library Conferences
- Labaree, Robert V. “Tips for getting published in scholarly journals: strategies for academic librarians.” College & Research Libraries News 65, no. 3 (2004): 137-139. doi.org/10.5860/crln.65.3.137.
- Ondrusek, Anita L., Thiele, Harold E., and Changwoo Yang. “Writing abstracts for MLIS research proposals using worked examples: An innovative approach to teaching the elements of research design.” College & Research Libraries 75, no. 6 (2014): 822-841. doi.org/10.5860/crl.75.6.822
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Wrap-Up
In this lesson, we covered the following topics:
We hope this lesson was useful in getting to better know what and where to publish and that you feel prepared to further explore your research plans. If you choose to move on to Course 4, Lesson 2, you’ll learn about the purpose of the literature reviewLiterature Review The process of summarizing, synthesizing and/or critiquing literature around a specific topic/idea. This work can help a researcher understand what has happened before and also how past research intersects and or diverges from other research. A literature review can be a full-length manuscript or a subsection within a larger research article. and start to work on your own.
You may also be interested in the following lessons:
Further Learning
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