Publishing
Think about your publishing strategy and how to reach your target audience. Observe copyrights and beware of predatory journals.
Where to publish
Where you decide to publish depends on many things, such as the scope of your work and the audience you want to reach. Here we offer tips on selecting a trustworthy outlet to publish your work.
Co-authoring
Guidelines for (co-)authorship vary among disciplines. These recommendations are based on a note written by Professor Bart Koelmans and have been approved by Wageningen Graduate Schools.
Copyright in research
Copyright is the right to copy and publish a work. Under copyright law, the person who creates the work or the employer owns the copyright of that work. In research, you can usually use copyrighted work as long as you cite the owner or the source.
Citing and plagiarism
WUR brand name
Your WUR affiliation should be clearly identified on your research output. If all your publications carry the same affiliation name, they will more likely be linked to your author name in commercial, external databases, such as Scopus and Web of Science, as well as in WUR systems Pure and Staff Publications.
Publishing your data
Once a project has ended, you may choose or you may be required to publish your data. Publishing data has many advantages. Besides helping other researchers, sharing data may also benefit you. Articles usually get cited more often when they link to the underlying dataset. In addition, if you publish a dataset, you will most likely get a persistent identifier (e.g. a DOI) for it. This makes your dataset easily findable and citeable, and helps you track its citation counts.
Request DOI & ISBN
If you are a staff member of Wageningen University & Research (WUR) and you are planning to publish a WUR report, you can ask the Library to assign a DOI and ISBN to your publication. As the DOI and ISBN need to be added to the report before it is published, you should do so before you hand in the manuscript.
