Publishing

Online access to the AMA Manual of Style

A brief overview on how to detect if a publication is predatory in nature.

A list of journals vetted by the Association of Vision Science Librarians (AVSL) for quality publication practices within the ophthalmology, optometry, and vision science fields.

The SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) created an Author Addendum. According to their website, this "legal instrument" will assist authors who want "to modify their copyright transfer agreements with non-open access journal publishers. It allows [authors] to select which individual rights out of the bundle of copyrights [they] want to keep." These rights include the ability to distribute copies for teaching and research purposes or placing the article on an institutional website.

Think. Check. Attend. is an initiative that guides researchers and scholars when deciding whether to attend a conference or submit an abstract and present their research. The 3-step approach encourages academics to ‘Think’ about the problem posed by predatory or substandard conferences, ‘Check’ the conference against a set of criteria designed to highlight attributes of good and bad quality conferences, and ‘Attend’ only if the conference adheres to the criteria consistent with a legitimate conference. (From the website.)