Publishing support
Before publishing the results of research and development, you can use various information and tools:
- First, you will need to find appropriate journals or do a research on the topic in your field of study. For that you will need the resources and databases, which the university has a subscription to.
- When deciding which journal to publish in, you can use publishers journal search tool.
- When creating your article you can use available citation managers to manage citations according to publishers requirements or spell checker for your text.
- Before your research, and especially within the projects, you will want to familiarize yourself with the ethics of publishing and the ethics documents accepted by the university.
- Finding the journal metrics (for example for the Open Access fund)
Finding the Open Access journals, Open Access books and conference proceedings
- Database of Open Access journals: www.doaj.org
- Database of Open Access books and conference proceedings: www.doabooks.org
Tools for finding a suitable journal to publish
The tools will search for relevant journals in a specific field, then you need to check the focus of the journal and look at the articles that the journal publishes. To find a suitable journal, you need to prepare:
- the title of the article in English
- keywords in English
- possibly a short abstract in English
- Elsevier Journal Finder
- Springer Journal Suggester
- Taylor Francis Journal Suggester
- Wiley Journal Finder - search by research fields
All prepaid electronic information resources of the university can be found on the library website, you can choose from the menu according to your field of study. Library catalogues for finding a literature: uvis.mendelu.cz/en/catalogues
Citation Managers
- Library webpages about bibliographical references and citations
- Citation manager EndNote, user instructions, how to set up a license
- Citace PRO PLUS, tool is free for academics and students, use UIS login
Databases to check journal metrics
You can use databases to find journal metrics, which are used for comparison of the journals in the different research fields:
- Metrics of journals indexed in Web of Science Core Collection database are in Journal Citation Reports database
- Metrics of journals indexed in Scopus database are in Scimago Journal Rank database
Ethics in publishing
The main principles of publishing the results of research and development are given in the main documents:
ORCID
When publishing, state the scientist's ORCID identifier, which is shown in the publication as an icon next to the author's name. This is a link to the author's ORCID identifier and it can be useful if anyone can look at your profile and other publications. Updating your ORCID profile and adding publications from the OBD system.
Reporting author identifiers to Open Science Center for adding into OBD system: identifikatory-vedce[at]mendelu.cz
The use of generative artificial intelligence in academic publications
The use of AI tools is also regulated in academic publishing by individual publishers, who in most cases do not allow the listing of AI tools as authors or co-authors. When publishing, it is always advisable to follow the conditions of each publisher for the use of AI tools in the text. We've put together an overview of this information that might help authors with publishing.