Want to Get Published?

If you have an article that you’re dying to get published, San Jose State University’s Laurie Putnam has several resources to help you.

Putnam, Laurie L. [San Jose (California) State University], Professional writing and publishing: Resources for librarians, C&RL News 70(4), April 2009, http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/crlnews/2009/apr/prowritepublish.cfm

Writing and Publishing Resources for Librarians Who Write, San Jose State University Alumni News 11(1), article 5, 2009, http://slisgroups.sjsu.edu/alumni/newsletter/09Spring/alumnewsspring09.htm#article5

San Jose State University Library and Information Science Publications wiki_, http://slisapps.sjsu.edu/wikis/faculty/putnam/index.php/LIS_Publications_Wiki

Laurie Putnam’s LibraryWriting Bookmarks, Delicious, http://delicious.com/LibraryWriting

INSIDER TIPS FOR GETTING AN ARTICLE PUBLISHED

If you would like to get an article published, Kathy Dempsey has published an article to help you. It is in the March-April 2008 (v. 22 no. 2) issue of MLS: Marketing Library Services. Unfortunately, it is not available online, but you can probably get a copy via interlibrary loan. It is well worth reading.

WHERE SHOULD YOU PUBLISH? (MEDICAL FIELDS ONLY)

Jane (Journal/Author Name Estimator) will help you find a journal that may be suitable to publish your latest article. It can also help an editor find reviewers for a paper. Jane compares your article title or abstract to millions of documents in MEDLINE to find the best match. You can see a list of similarly titled articles, too—someone may already have written “your” paper. Jane is a product the Biosemantics Group, a collaboration between the Medical Informatics department of the ErasmusMC Univiersity Medical Center of Rotterdam and the Center for Human and Clinical Genetics of the Leiden University Medical Center.

URL: http://biosemantics.org/jane/