Knowledge Review

What do You Know?

Since we’re dealing with education, there has to be a quiz! Review what you’ve learned in Module 1 by responding to each of the questions below. Then open up the next chapter in your publishing career by moving on to Module 2: Laying the Groundwork!

1. Scholarly publishing is an important factor in:

Tenure decisions
Professional development
Personal growth
Advancement of the field
All of the above

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2. True or False: The only thing you need to worry about in scholarly publishing is how to come up with ideas for papers.

True
False

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3. "Open Access" publishing refers to:

Internet-based access to scholarly research and publications, in which work is free of most copyright restrictions
Journals made available through databases, accessible online via subscription
Faculty web sites that include full-text reproductions of their published works
Removal of the institutional firewall

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4. Open access journals cover their costs by:

Donations from wealthy patrons
Sales of printed copies in university bookstores
Author fees and sponsorships from universities and professional societies
Google adwords

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5. What phrase best completes this sentence?: Collaborative and multi-author papers are common in scholarly publishing...

... and they are much easier to write than individually authored papers.
... but they require teamwork and individual responsibility.
... because you can get publishing credit without having to contribute at all to the project.

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