About me as a researcher/ research publisher Types of Scholarly publishing How researchers find content Finding ELT-related content New trends and research tools Publishing your own research

1. How to be successful in discovering
and publishing research
Caroline Moore
3 April 2019

2. Overview
• About me as a researcher/ research publisher
• Types of Scholarly publishing
• How researchers find content
• Finding ELT-related content
• New trends and research tools
• Publishing your own research
• Recommendations

4. What do you think about
coursebooks?
Discussion – how do you find research?
@constellata

5. Types of scholarly publishing
• Journal articles
• Monographs
• Conference proceedings
• Books
• Dissertations and theses

6. IATEFL Web
Conference

7. Typical research cycle

8. STEM and HSS
• STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering &
Medicine, key for biomed is NLM/PubMed
• HSS – Humanities & Social Science

9. Where does ELT fit in?
“great deal of research being carried out by researchers who are or who have
been teachers, with a focus on describing, interpreting and making sense of ELT
via interpretive and local explanatory work. What is needed now, though, is,
firstly, for all this work to be drawn together, so that the significant messages
become more visible.” Richard Kiely
“Her main point was that it makes little sense to isolate research on ELT and
English language learning from instruction in other languages.”
Catherine Walter
“ELT research should have practical outcomes, and that a gap needed to be
bridged between academia and the world of the ELT practitioner.” Cyril Weir
IATEFL Research SIG Newsletter 2015. (resig.iatefl.org)

11. Search and Discovery
Search
• Google/Google Scholar
• Bing, MSN
Discover
• Library tools, e.gEBSCO,
Summon, TrendMd
Impact
• Altmetric, Kudos, Redlink
Archive
• Portico, LOCKSS
Accessibility
• Readspeaker

12. Metadata Example 1: abstracts & key words

13. Metadata example 2: abstracts & key words

14. Digital Object Identifier - DOIs
• 5,000+ assigners, e.g.,
publishers, science data
centres, film studios
• 175 million DOI names
assigned since 2000
• Used widely by
academic journals,
some are creating these
retrospectively, e.g. ELTJ
goes back to 1992
• https://www.doi.org/
• https://www.crossref.org

15. Open Access (OA)
• Articles available for
free on the journal's
website.
• www.ingentaopen.com
• Often hybrid journals
• Sometimes delayed,
e.g. 12-month embargo
• Creative Commons
https://creativecommo
ns.org/about/

16. The problem with Open Access
“Progress to open access (OA) has stalled, with
perhaps 20% of new papers ‘born‐free’. .. why is
it taking so long? … the focus on OA makes us
miss the bigger problem: today’s scholarly
communications is too expensive for today’s
budgets. So, OA is not the problem, the
publishing process is the problem. “
Toby Green
https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1219

17. Getting Published
“Elsevier handles 1.5 million
submissions a year …of which
1.1 million articles are rejected.
One of most common reasons
for rejection is nothing to do
with the quality of the work but
simply a mismatch with the
journal’s aims and scope.”
Toby Green
https://doi.org/10.1002/lea
p.1219
Before you start writing:
• Identify your audience(s)
& possible journals
• Study their author
guidelines
• Ask for advice from
academic colleagues
• Create an Orcid record
https://orcid.org
• Metadata: title, abstract
& key words

18. Caroline Moore
3 April 2019
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