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University employees are not charged fines for overdue materials from Shenandoah University Libraries. However, employees with 3 or more overdue items are blocked from further borrowing. Overdue materials not returned after 4 months will be considered lost items, and the borrower will be billed for replacement. Faculty members may incur fines for overdue interlibrary loan items.
An item may be renewed 3 times unless a hold request has been made for that title. Step-by-step instructions for renewing items are found on the Borrowing guide.
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Interlibrary Loan (ILL) is a service provided exclusively for current SU students, faculty and staff. Books, scores and copies of journal articles needed for research may be borrowed or copied from other libraries in Virginia or elsewhere in the United States. For more information about policies and procedures, please see the Interlibrary Loan information page.
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If you have questions regarding interlibrary loan or document delivery, please call the Interlibrary Loan Office at (540) 545-7318, toll-free at (877) 289-4611, or email Sharon Gochenour at library@su.edu.
Because an ORCID identifier is unique and persistent , it provides an easy way to distinguish yourself from other people with similar names and to guarantee that you will get credit for your work. A few things to know:
A Google Scholar profile is a very simple way of collating your publications (and citations to them) so that others can find your work and often find an accessible copy that they can read. See example profiles from Shenandoah University researchers.
If you have a free Google account, setting up a profile is quick and easy. Just visit the site and click "My Profile" to register and start adding your publications. Once you have set up the profile, you can choose automatic updates so you don't need to spend a lot of time updating your publications list.
Impactstory is a tool that allows you to promote, manage, and share your research and scholarship. Sign up with your Twitter account or ORCID researcher ID, and add items to your profile using your ORCID, your Google Scholar Profile, or DOIs and PubMed IDs.
Impactstory gathers information about interactions with your work from many sources. You can receive a weekly email report of "new research impacts" (example here) and use your Impactstory profile as an alternative to a static online CV (example profile here).
Explore the Metrics Toolkit to learn what various metrics mean and how they can help you track and discuss engagement with your work.
This link opens in a new windowWhen you look up a particular journal in BrowZine, you will see its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) next to its title.
Clicking through to the SJR site will reveal more metrics about the journal, including its H index. (Both the SJR and the H index are defined here.)
When browsing journals by subject in BrowZine, you can sort the results by rank rather than by title.
The Leiden University Centre for Science and Technology (CWTS) calculates and provides free access to their own journal metrics. Like the SJR numbers included in BrowZine, these rankings are based on the publication information available in the Scopus database.
However, CWTS provides SNIP (source normalized impact per paper) indicators that allow more accurate comparisons between publications in different fields of study. (Read more about the methodology here.)
Generate a list of journals by selecting a main area and sub-area.
Google Scholar Metrics provide rankings of top publications over the last five years.
In addition to viewing the list of the top 100 journals in all fields, you can browse publications in broad areas of research (e.g., Health & Medical Sciences) and subcategories (e.g., Rehabilitation Therapy).
Rankings are determined according to each publication's h5-index and h5-median, defined here.
Copyright provides the default rules regarding the ownership and use—copying, distribution, and preparation of derivative works—of creative works. The typical publication process involves the transfer of copyright ownership from the author to the publisher, at least temporarily.
As an author, you can negotiate publication agreements that allow you to retain control of how you and others may use your work in future, even when you publish in traditional journals.
While SU Libraries does not have direct funding to cover article processing charges (APCs) for faculty authors publishing in open access journals, VIVA, the Virginia Academic Library Consortium, offers discounts and funding to help defray such costs.
A 3-year agreement (2023-2025) between CUP and VIVA, the Virginia library consortium, waives the cost of open access publication and expands our reading access to all CUP journals as well. Learn more and browse CUP's open access journals.
Shenandoah faculty can now publish open access articles within ACS journals without paying an article processing charge during this 3-year agreement (2024-2026). When an article is accepted following the standard submission and review process, the author may choose Open Access publication and waive the typical article processing charge. Learn more.
Visit this page to learn more about the VIVA agreement with Wiley.
Contact Jackie DeLong (jdelong@su.edu).
