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  • 1.  Scholarly publishing for nursing grad students & faculty

    Posted Jan 05, 2024 08:19 AM

    Hello all, I received a request to develop scholarly publishing classes/workshops for DNP and nursing PhD students at my institution, as well as a webinar for faculty.  I know the faculty are particularly interested in journal selection, differentiation, impact factors, and avoiding predatory journals. We do have a Digital Research & Scholarship office at the Libraries that I plan on working with to develop this, but I wanted to ask this group if you have any resources for nursing and health sciences specifically. I'm new to my position , and this topic was outside the scope of  my previous position at a community college, so anything helps! Thank you.



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    Jules Bailey
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  • 2.  RE: Scholarly publishing for nursing grad students & faculty

    Posted Jan 08, 2024 10:15 AM
    Hi Jules!
    I haven't done that kind of workshop in a while but I'm happy to share. I like to get a list comparing journals and use it to have discussions about what the different qualities of journals might imply for them. For example, if a journal only accepts 30% of submissions, what does that say about the journal as a reader and as an author? Do they enjoy journals that have both research and practice article types, or prefer just research articles? What are the plusses and minuses to each the research and practice versus research-only approach as a reader? Can it affect their CV's marketability to pick a more practice or research slant?

    Then breaking into small groups, picking a journal from a preidentified list of good but not toprank journals. Each group looks theirs up online, identifying its aims, scope, types of articles, submission process, etc and bringing back what they like and don't about that journal to pitch it to the whole class.

    There used to be an intermittent survey of nursing journal editors about their journals' traits, in Nurse Educator, that I liked for this. It looks like the most recent was Northam, S., Greer, D.,  Rath, L., & Toone, A. (2014). Nursing Journal Editor Survey Results to Help Nurses Publish. Nurse Educator, 39, 290-297. https://doi.org/10.1097/NNE.0000000000000086 It's old in nursing years, but journals don't change very fast so it should still be OK to use. Or if you subscribe to Cabell's then there might be more updated metrics there. But I think the article types table in the Northam article is more useful for this type of discussion than just the Cabell's metrics like acceptance and review times.

    Hope that helps! Feel free to reach out if you want to discuss offlist,

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    Nina Exner
    Research Data Librarian
    Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries




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