Orchid ID

Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCiD) is a free, internationally recognised, non-profit registry system. It allows you to:

• Create a distinctive, permanent identification to set oneself apart from other researchers
• Compile all your research outputs in one location
• Link to other IDs like ResearcherID and Scopus Author ID

ORCiD Support

Scopus ID

Scopus is a sizable transdisciplinary citation database that Elsevier makes available. In order to identify between authors whose work has been indexed in Scopus, Elsevier automatically produces Author IDs.

All your articles that have been indexed by Scopus are included in your author profiles, along with citation metrics based on Scopus data. If you have work indexed in Scopus, your Scopus Author ID should ideally be:

• Integrated with your ORCID

Scopus

Large multidisciplinary citation-tracking database.

Scopus Support Center – What is the Scopus Author Identifier?

Scopus Author Feedback Wizard

To choose a preferred name, merge profiles, add and remove documents, and modify your affiliation, use the Author Feedback Wizard.

Researcher ID via Publons

ResearcherID is an author clarification and profiling tool provided by Clarivate Analytics. It has been hosted on Publons since April 2019.

 The Publons profile can display:

• All publications indexed by Web of Science
• Citation index for publications indexed by Web of Science

ResearcherID should ideally be:

• Integrated with your ORCID

Publons homepage

Check for an existing Publons profile or access your existing profile

Publons FAQs for researchers

Twitter

This microblogging and social networking service allows you to keep up to date through following 280-character “tweets” posted by individuals and organizations. You can join by replying to other people’s tweets or creating your own tweets.

Twitter home

LinkedIn

This career and industry-oriented social network enables individuals and businesses to connect professionally. If you choose to create a profile here, you may be ranked high in search engine results.

• Purpose – Career and industry oriented
• Analyze how you interact with your profile and posts, but not your publications

LinkedIn home

Facebook

With this social networking service, you can share texts, photos, links, and more, as well as access materials that you share with others. You can create and join groups. While companies, organizations, and brands can create pages. There are extensive privacy controls that allow you to classify the people you interact with and determine what they can see. You also can follow public posts by individuals.

Facebook home

Google Scholar

Google Scholar Profiles provides authors with an easy way to introduce scholarly publications. You can see who is quoting your article, graph citations over time, and calculate multiple citation metrics. You can also publish your profile so that it appears in Google Scholar results when users search for your name.

Google Scholar home

Research Gate

A place to share your work, connect with colleagues around the world – break the boundaries and silos of science. It allows you to create a profile, compile all publication with downloadable full text where copyright permits, gather detailed statistics about who read your work and track your citations.

Research Gate home

Academia

Academia allows you to list research in full, downloadable text where copyright permits. User also allowed to tag specific interests and then leverage a large network of people with similar research interests among approximately 47 million users worldwide.

Academia home

Before publishing

For all publication types, it is norm to consider these factors including publisher reputation, how they promote your work, will it discoverable via their platform or any search engines, copyright policies (e.g. can you self-archive in repositories?)

For journal articles specifically, consider:

• is the journal targeted at the audience you want to reach?
• is the journal widely indexed – will you find articles in relevant databases and Google Scholar?
• is the journal open access or restricted to subscribers?
• how well regarded/influential is the journal – measured by esteem and/or citations
• have you considered search engine optimisation when writing?

SHERPA/ROMEO

A searchable database of journals and publishers’ policies on OA and self-archiving

Wiley – Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for your article

Tips for increasing the discoverability of your article via search engines

MMU Institutional Repository

MMU IR is a collection of the University’s intellectual or research output. Institutional repositories centralize, collect, preserve, and comply to open access concept of accessing collection of scholarly materials that showcases the research output of Multimedia University communities. Siti Hasmah Digital Library is responsible in archiving, establishing, collaborating, managing, maintaining and disseminating the content.

Why MMU IR?

Benefits of depositing research

By storing and making available our research outputs via the Institutional Repository (IR), we will be helping the worldwide scholarly research community to discover and retrieve the work of Multimedia University’s researchers.

Advantages for researchers

• Wider dissemination – E-print repositories enable free worldwide web-based access to research outputs.
• Increased impact – Studies show that research deposited in open access repositories have considerably increased impact as citation rates rise.
• Increased visibility & discoverability of research – MMU IR conforms to the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) standards. This means that research deposited here has a higher ranking by search engines such as Google.
• A showcase for research – The repository provides a means to bring together your research output. The repository can be linked from your research centre or faculty web pages.

MMU Institutional repository policy

Create an Account

Guideline:

1. Guideline of MMU IR Self Depositing – here
2. Guideline of MMU IR Data Entry – here

Introduction

A unique identifier for a research work is associated with descriptive information (metadata) that can be found by searching for the identifier. Advantages of identifiers are:

• Help others to find referenced works
• Clearly Claim Your Work
• Improved tracking of engagement with your research (easier to collect metrics)

Examples: Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | International Standard Book Number (ISBN) | PubMed Unique Identifier (PMID) | Social Science Research Network ID (SSRN ID)

DOI’s

The DOI system is an international standard, and many publishers automatically assign DOIs when they publish their work. If you are unsure whether your work has been assigned a DOI, you can find out online using Crossref’s free DOI lookup.

Crossref free DOI lookup

Use this free resource from Crossref to locate an existing DOI.

Obtaining ISBN

Publishing at MMU

Are you planning to publish material where MMU is the main authoring institution? International Standard Book Numbers (ISBNs) identify the specific title and edition of a publication from a specific publisher and are issued exclusively to that edition.

Publication design, typesetting and ISBNs

You can contact MMUPress to discuss support available for these aspects. MMUPress can also issue ISBNs, which are most useful for works which will be widely distributed in print as part of traditional publication distribution. They are generally optional for reports. You could choose to have just a DOI, or both a DOI and ISBN.