Publishing

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.

Authorship guidelines

WUR has set guidelines for authorship that have to be considered by all WUR researchers. These guidelines apply to all types of documents. On this webpage the main rules are explained.

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

Learn how and why you should acknowledge the sources you used in your work.

Guidelines WUR brand name and affiliations

As a WUR researcher, you are required to include the correct WUR affiliation in your research output. The correct and consistent use of the brand name in academic publications is essential for the visibility of WUR’s scientific output in major international citation databases as well as for your own personal visibility.

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 a DOI

Similarity check (plagiarism and originality)

If you are a staff member or PhD student of WUR and you do not have access to Brightspace, you can ask the Copyright Information Point to perform a similarity check.