Publishing Support

Temple librarians can assist your publishing efforts in a number of ways. 

• Selecting suitable journals for submission
• Assessing a journal's quality
• Locating a journal's submission guidelines
• Responding to peer-review
• Selecting a citation manager and learning how to use it
• Navigating open access, copyright and creative commons license concerns
• Identifying appropriate databases and developing search strategies for your research topic

The Student Success Center provides writing support for all Temple graduate students and residents. Although their services do not specialize in medical writing or scholarship, they can provide feedback on your draft-in-progress, including personal statements and fellowship applications. The Student Success Center does not currently support Temple faculty or staff. Questions? Contact the Assistant Director of the Writing Center, Darla Himeles (darla.himeles@temple.edu)

Depositing into TUScholarShare is a free and easy way to improve your work's visibility, reach, and impact. Benefits of depositing your work as an author include:

• Enhanced discoverability: Get your research out to more readers. TUScholarShare is indexed by leading search engines and metadata aggregators, such as Google Scholar.
• Long-term access: Make sure people can read your work. By uploading your work to TUScholarShare you are ensuring that it is accessible for years to come.
• Better citation and attribution: Make sure you get credit for your work. All items uploaded to TUScholarShare receive a Digital Object Identifier, or DOI, a persistent URL that facilitates citation and attribution. Sharing DOIs is a great way to get your work noticed by prospective employers, collaborators, and peers.
• Support Open Access and Open Science: Items deposited into TUScholarShare are accessible to all. It may be possible to share your already published work, even if you are not the copyright holder. Most publishers allow a pre-print or post-print version of a published article to be deposited into your institution's scholarly repository. Depositing pre-prints or post-prints can ensure global access to important research, despite a reader's affiliation or means.
• Fulfill grant requirements: Depositing your work to TUScholarShare may satisfy grant or funding stipulations requiring you to make your research freely available.

• The Open Access Publishing Fund is open to all current Temple faculty, postdoctoral fellows, residents, and graduate students
• Covers up to 50% of current Temple faculty, postdoctoral fellows, residents, and graduate students' portion of the APC, for a total of no more than $3,000.  For example, if the APC is $2,000 and there are four authors, two of whom are from Temple, the authors can apply for $500 from the fund ($250 each)

Many open access journals are free to read because they charge authors a fee, often called an article processing charge or APC. Thanks to various memberships and subscriptions paid for by the Libraries, Temple authors receive discounts on APCs from the following publishers:

Temple University has created an institutional membership with BMJ Case Reports so that our researchers can submit new cases to the journal free of charge. For more information and to request Temple's Fellowship Code please email hscref@temple.edu.

Depending on your affiliation, there are a variety of poster printing options at Temple University.