Sharing and Publishing Your Work

Nuts and Bolts of Scholarly Publishing

Whether it’s your first time publishing or you’re a seasoned author, navigating the scholarly publishing landscape can be difficult. While we cannot provide legal or career advice, our Nuts and Bolts of Scholarly Publishing guide discusses issues such as:

• Knowing your rights as an author
• Finding an appropriate publisher
• Evaluating journals for fit, impact and quality
• Understanding your publishing contract

Online Publishing Platforms

Want to share your work openly? We provide tools and support for sharing your work with the wider public. Whether it’s data, preprints, digital projects, journals, or open educational resources, we can help get your work out into the world.

• Online Publishing Platforms
• Hosting Services

Funding Your Publication

While the Libraries does not fund individual publications, we have negotiated discounts or outright waivers for UW authors with a number of scholarly publishers.

Article Processing Charges

My Research Impact

Identify tools and strategies for tracking, documenting, and expanding your research impact:

• Citation tracking with tools like Web of Science or Google Scholar
• Impact indicators like h-index, journal impact factor, and iCite
• Bibliometrics & altmetrics
• Creating a scholarly profile using ORCID, Google Scholar and other databases