Good practices

Here are some recommendations for you to consider during the different stages of a research document life cycle (articles, papers or conference presentations, books or chapters, etc.).

  Writing

 

 

  • Cite correctly. Avoid plagiarism and other bad practice (such as self-plagiarism, data creation or manipulation, the fragmentation of a study in several works, etc.). See the Scientific Ethics page.
  • Write your standardised author signature and include your institutional affiliation.
  • Include your ORCID, your international author identifier.
  • State the name or acronym of the research funding body and the project number, either at the local, national or international level.

 

  

Publishing

 

 

  • Select the appropriate journal for publication.
  • Consider all the options for publishing in open access.
  • Always keep all the article versions, especially in journal articles: author’s original (submitted, preprint), revised version (accepted, postprint) and final published version. Keep in mind that the article version to be published in a repository will be determined by the publisher's copyright and its self-archiving policy.
  • Submit the article to the publisher accompanied by a cover letter and take it as an opportunity to highlight the suitability of your work. Some publishers (Taylor & Francis, Springer, Cambridge-AJE) provide instructions and templates to do so, but even in these cases, the best is to follow the requested specifications of each journal.
  • Respect scientific ethics. The UAB has drawn up a Code of Good Practice in Research and adheres to the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) guidelines on good publication practice, which establishes the criteria of intellectual authorship, the prevention of plagiarism, self-plagiarism and  redundant publications.
  

Disseminating

 

 

  • Identify the article version when necessary: ​​for example, in case of unpublished papers, we recommend you to indicate the citation and to mention the Creative Commons license at the beginning of the document (See the Creative Commons Licenses recommended by the UAB).
  • Reference the new publication at the University Research Output and Transfer System where all the research output of your institution is collected (EGRETA at the UAB). You can self-archive the UAB journal articles in the DDD by theses means too: read this guide on how to submit documents to the UAB Digital repository (in Catalan).
  • Self-archive the document, in any form, in your institutional repository as soon as possible. If you need it, you can request an embargo.Include the new work in your list of publications in your different researcher profiles: ORCID, Google Scholar, Publons (Web of Science), AuthorID (Scopus).
  • Use social networks.
  • Link always to the permanent URL of the document.

 

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