Trainings in open access (OA) and the promotion of research output can provide researchers, librarians, PhD candidates, and academic institutions with valuable tools to help them better understand how to make research results available to a wide audience and effectively promote scientific achievements. Such workshops usually cover a variety of topics aimed at increasing the visibility and accessibility of scientific research.
Below there are examples of topics that may be included in the programme of such workshops:
1. Introduction to Open Access
- Fundamentals and objectives of OA: an explanation of what open access is and why it is important for researchers and society.
- OA publishing models: a description of different OA models, such as gold, green, and hybrid open access.
- Benefits of OA: advantages of open access for researchers, institutions, and society.
- Funder requirements and OA policies: open access requirements imposed by funding agencies, including, for example, the European Union and Polish research funding institutions.
2. Publishing and archiving research output
- Publications Database of Lublin University of Technology Staff: information on registering, documenting, and archiving the research output of employees at Lublin University of Technology; preparing bibliometric analyses based on evaluation indicators included in the database; promoting scientific publications through the online availability of the database.
- Institutional and subject repositories: ways in which repositories can support OA and increase research visibility.
- Copyright management: negotiating copyright with publishers and determining publication licences (e.g. Creative Commons).
- Sharing research data: the importance of open data and guidance on how to publish data in repositories or data platforms.
- Journal search tools: searching for journals that include a given article.
- Information on predatory journals: verifying the quality of journals.
- Open publishing programmes: publishing in reputable journals without incurring costs.
3. Indicators, tools and strategies for promoting research output
- Bibliometrics: traditional indicators, e.g. the Hirsch index, Impact Factor, citations, and their interpretation.
- Social networking platforms for researchers: effective use of services such as ResearchGate, Academia.edu, and Google Scholar.
- Optimising online research visibility: methods used to increase the visibility of publications, e.g. through keywords and metadata.
- Creating and promoting a researcher profile: building an attractive academic profile on platforms such as ORCID, LinkedIn, and others.
Thematic training sessions are also organised as part of Open Data Week (February–March) and Open Access Week, which takes place every year in October.
Contact
Bibliometric Analysis Unit
Centre of Innovation and Advanced Technologies (the Rusty Building)
Nadbystrzycka 36 C, room 309 D
20-618 Lublin
e-mail: oab@pollub.pl
phone: +48 81 538 46 86
