After successful completion of the course, students are able to...

• ... publication processes, and independently plan a publication strategy.
• ... understand the implications of Open Science and Open Access when publishing and disseminating research results.
• ... manage and, if possible, publish research data, to improve transparency and to foster discoverability and impact of your research.
• ... manage and foster your own scientific digital profile in order to increase your findability and visibility as a researcher.
• ... identify methods and tools to evaluate research.
• ... learn to plan your own targeted publication strategy (why and what to publish; authorship and collaboration; where to publish; i.e. choosing a journal; raising the research profile; sharing publications and data...).

• What is a publication strategy?
• What are Open Science and Open Access, and how can they influence the publication and dissemination process?
• What is the implication of publications and research data findability, and how can they be made “FAIR” (“findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable”)?
• What is a scientific or academic digital identity?
• What are persistent identifiers (PIDs), and how to use them?
• Which indicators apply in the evaluation of research?
• Tips and tricks for publishing and disseminate your research
• How to plan a publication strategy?

Theoretical inputs, active participation, practical exercises, presentations, and drafting of a publication strategy 

Target group: doctoral and master students.

Please consider the plagiarism guidelines of TU Wien when writing your seminar paper: Directive concerning the handling of plagiarism (PDF)

Active participation. Practical exercises. Multiple choice-test. Submission in TUWEL of a publication strategy.