Sharing your work by self-archiving: encouragement from the Journal of the Medical Library Association

Abigail Goben; Katherine G Akers

doi:10.5195/jmla.2020.877

Sharing your work by self-archiving: encouragement from the Journal of the Medical Library Association

J Med Libr Assoc. 2020 Jan;108(1):1-4. doi: 10.5195/jmla.2020.877. Epub 2020 Jan 1.

Authors

Abigail Goben¹, Katherine G Akers²

Affiliations

¹ Library of the Health Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, agoben@uic.edu.
² Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the Medical Library Association, JMLA@journals.pitt.edu.

Abstract

Self-archiving offers opportunities for authors to more broadly disseminate their work-both in pre-print form before its submission to a journal and in post-print form after its acceptance and publication in a journal. This editorial provides authors with guidance in navigating the rapidly changing options for self-archiving and affirms that the Journal of the Medical Library Association encourages authors to self-archive their work to boost its reach and impact.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Adult
Female
Guidelines as Topic*
Humans
Information Dissemination / methods*
Libraries, Medical / standards*
Library Associations
Male
Manuscripts, Medical as Topic*
Middle Aged
Publishing / standards*
Social Networking*