Making your work publicly available has many advantages:

• demonstrates your capacity to handle data, write well, and manage a research project
• establishes you as a contributor in your field and may lead to opportunities for networking and collaborations
• publishing is a requirement for many research and academic positions

DOI

A DOI is a digital identifier of an object, any object — physical, digital, or abstract. DOIs solve a common problem: keeping track of things. Things can be matter, material, content, or activities.

Designed to be used by humans as well as machines, DOIs identify objects persistently. They allow things to be uniquely identified and accessed reliably. You know what you have, where it is, and others can track it too.

What does the library provide?

Within our catalogue we provide persistent link (permalinks) to all items in our collection. We do not provide a DOI service.

Here are some sites where you can learn more about DOIs:

Student writing research papers while in school may submit their work to our Special Collections. Please have your teacher contact Katherine McMillan at copyright@sl.on.ca for submission instructions.

You may view the collection within our library catalogue.

Coming Soon

Campus Scholars Corner (name TBD)

A hub for student (outside of regular class learning), faculty, and employee research.

Even if you don't yet feel ready to submit your work to an academic journal or present at a conference, you can still become part of the conversation. Using a blog, or other form of social media, you can begin to explore ideas in your field and begin to build a professional network.

Undergraduate Journals

Academic Journals

Publishing student research in an academic journal can be tricky. The well-known journals are looking for papers that present significant findings, and this can be difficult to accomplish in your first research article. Therefore, you may want to target a smaller journal that publishes on your topic.

Selecting a Journal - If you aren't sure where to submit you can browse the Serials Directory for journals in your subject area by searching for a keyword that matches your field of research (e.g., psychology), and look for titles that are not particularly expensive. You can also google your topic area using multiple iterations of your keywords and the word "journal" to try to find a journal in your field.

Submitting your work - Make sure that you have followed the Submission Guidelines, sometimes called Instructions for Authors. All journals will have a format, and submission guidelines that will need to be adhered to to be successful. Here is an example of author instructions from The Review of General Psychology.

Conferences are an excellent opportunity to present your research to other professionals. Methods for presenting vary:

• a presentation in which you present the findings from your paper
• doing a "lightning talk" (a short talk of specific length)
• a  poster presentation (displaying a physical or digital poster among others and talking one-on-one with conference attendees)

These opportunities will almost always result in an abstract published in the Conference Proceedings or Conference Program.

Look at professional organizations in your field to find conferences that are a good match for your research. Conferences are also an excellent opportunity to network . Tip: Deadlines to submit your proposal are often months before the date of the actual conference.

Posters (Presented at Conferences)

Presenting a poster at a conference is an excellent way to share your findings in a more casual setting. Presenting your paper in a visual format allows you to summarize the main points of your research and connect with others to share that information. Poster presentations are often a feature of conferences.