Publishing – Things to Remember
When choosing a magazine, it is worth:
- check the journal in the database of open journals DOJ. The database includes only magazines that guarantee full Open Access,
- check whether the publication will have a DOI identifier,
- check your scores on the current ministerial list: Announcement of the Minister of Science of January 5, 2024 regarding the list of scientific journals and peer-reviewed materials from international conferences,
- check whether the publisher of the monograph is on the current list of publishers published in MEiN announcement of 22 July 2021,
- exclude magazines and publishers suspected of rapacity,
- establish the credibility of the journal. Check if it is indexed in Scopus, Web of Science, check if it is in Journal Citation Reports. If the journal is not indexed in the above databases, its credibility should be verified. For this purpose, it is worth using Think-Check-Submit.
Zachęcamy do przeczytania artykułu o drapieżnych wydawcach i czasopismach How to search without being fooled, or "predatory journals"
When publishing, it is worth using open publishing programs.
When writing a publication, it is worth using bibliography managers thanks to which you can save descriptions from databases and other sources, quickly insert footnotes in the text, and based on the footnotes, the program will place a list of used literature at the end of the publication.
Selected bibliography management programs:
- EndNote (configuration is required to use the home remote access)
- Mendeleev (free)
- Zotero (free)
Important:
- In the affiliation, the name of the unit in which the publication was created should be given. The correct Polish and English names of the University units can be found in the currently applicable UML Organizational Regulations.
- Include your ORCID number in the publication.
Registration of publications in the UMLub Bibliography Database
- In order for the publication to be registered in the database, the full text, scan or link to the full text must be sent to the following address: informacja@umlub.pl or deliver the original/copy of the publication to the Department of Scientific Information and Library Didactics (Computer Room, room 107).
- Employees for publication should submit a Declaration authorizing the entity to demonstrate the scientific achievements of the employee/PhD student for the purposes of evaluating the quality of scientific activity in accordance with By Order of the Rector No. 129/2023 of October 5, 2023:
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- In the base Bibliography UMLub journal articles, monographs, chapters from monographs, conference papers and abstracts, doctoral theses, patents and popular science publications are registered. Conference programs and certificates of participation in the conference are not subject to registration.
Scientific article it is a peer-reviewed article published in a scientific journal that presents a specific issue in an original and creative, problem-based or cross-sectional way, with a bibliography or footnotes.
The following are not considered scientific articles: editorial, abstract, extended abstract, letter, erratum and editorial note.
Scientific monograph it is a peer-reviewed book publication that presents a specific scientific issue in an original and creative way, with a bibliography or footnotes.
Rules for assigning points in the UMLub Bibliography Database
Publications are scored based on the guidelines of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
Points from the list are awarded to (data from 2019):
– scientific articles from scientific journals and peer-reviewed conference materials published:
- in 2024 based on the list to MN announcement of January 5, 2024
- in 2023 based on the list to MEiN announcement of November 3, 2023
– in the years 2019-2022 based on the list to the MEiN announcement of December 21, 2021
according to the following principle:
Article or conference material included in a given list | 20 points, 40 points, 70 points, 100 points, 140 points, 200 points |
Article or conference material off the list | 5 points |
– scientific monographs from 2019-2024 based on the list of publishers announced in MEiN announcement of 22 July 2021
according to the following principle:
Publishing house level II | 200 points – authorship of a monograph |
Publishing house level I | 80 points – authorship of a monograph |
Publishing house outside the publisher list | 20 points – authorship of a monograph |
To evaluate the quality of scientific activity, achievements within the disciplines practiced in a given entity are reported.
For each publication, individual shares of each author are calculated (this applies to authors-employees in research, research-teaching, teaching positions conducting scientific activity and doctoral students from the UML Doctoral School), the so-called slots.
The evaluation covers achievements that have arisen in connection with employment or education (Doctoral School) at the entity.
Slots
Publication Slot (for an author) is the sum of that person's individual shares in various publications, giving the number 1.
For publications, the so-called individual share of each author is calculated. When a person is the sole author of a publication (scientific article/monograph/conference material), their unit share is equal to 1. In the case of multi-author publications, the value of the unit share is less than 1.
For each unit contribution (filling part of a slot) its point value is determined.
For multi-author publications the point value that publications and author slots receive depends on the number of people who have submitted declarations in a given discipline, the number of all authors of a given publication and the number of points assigned to a given journal.
A detailed description of how points and slots are calculated can be found in Help.
We encourage you to take advantage of counting table, to check what number of points/slots the author of a given publication will receive.
