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040.004 Scientific work: Publishing and Dissemination
This course is in all assigned curricula part of the STEOP.
This course is in at least 1 assigned curriculum part of the STEOP.

2024W, VU, 2.0h, 3.0EC, to be held in blocked form

Properties

Semester hours: 2.0
Credits: 3.0
Type: VU Lecture and Exercise
Format: Presence

Learning outcomes

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...).

Subject of course

- 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?

Teaching methods

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

Mode of examination

Immanent

Additional information

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)

Lecturers

Pacher, Andreas

Institute

E040 Library

Course dates

Day	Time	Date	Location	Description
Thu	08:30 - 12:30	12.12.2024	Vortragsraum of the TU Wien Bibliothek (5th floor; DD05B04)	General aspects of academic publishing; open access, open science
Thu	08:30 - 12:30	19.12.2024	"Vortragsraum" of the TU Wien Bibliothek (5th floor; DD05B04)	Research assessment and bibliometrics; research data
Thu	08:30 - 12:30	09.01.2025	"Vortragsraum" of the TU Wien Bibliothek (5th floor; DD05B04)	Persistent identifiers; databases and other sources for meta-scientific data (e.g., Web of Science; Scopus; Google Scholar, LENS)
Thu	08:30 - 12:30	16.01.2025	"Vortragsraum" of the TU Wien Bibliothek (5th floor; DD05B04)	Academic profiles; designing a publication strategy
Thu	08:30 - 12:30	23.01.2025	"Vortragsraum" of the TU Wien Bibliothek (5th floor; DD05B04)	Avoiding predatory publishing
Thu	08:30 - 12:30	30.01.2025	Zoom (LIVE)	Raising one's research profile (e.g., Twitter/X, ResearchGate, etc.)

Course is held blocked

Examination modalities

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

Course registration

Begin	End	Deregistration end
23.07.2024 23:59	11.12.2024 23:59	25.12.2024 23:59

Curricula

Study Code	Obligation	Semester	Precon.	Info
066 445 Mechanical Engineering	Not specified
066 558 Quantum Information Science and Technology	Mandatory elective
730 FW Elective Courses - Process Engineering	Elective
TRS Transferable Skills	Not specified

Literature

No lecture notes are available.

Miscellaneous

Attendance Required!

Language

English