BITC: Publication Class -- 1. Introduction

Good morning. My name is Town Peterson. This is an installment of the Biodiversity Informatics Training Curriculum focused on how to publish a scientific paper. It's a long and complicated process, as anybody who has developed a scientific research paper knows. So in this set of video modules, what I will be doing is going through the publication process step-by-step. This particular clip is simply an introduction. These are the steps that I'll be covering. Writing the paper. Then editing and proofreading your manuscript. Formatting it for a journal and submitting it to a journal. Then we're going to talk about how the editor decides to consider a paper further and send it out for review. What the reviewers do; and, the suggestions and criticisms that they provide. What the editor's decision-making mechanism is. What your role should be in terms of revising your paper for return to the editor. The acceptance. Page proofs. Corrections. And then we'll talk a bit about copyright transfer, which turns out to be a bigger issue in recent years than in previous. And finally, your paper is published. So, this is a long process. And, the idea of this module is to give you some helpful hints and tips about each step in this process. Thanks a lot.