diff --git a/getting-found-staying-found/en/getting-found-visibility.md b/getting-found-staying-found/en/getting-found-visibility.md index ad3fc5e2d26b..65baa6815d3e 100644 --- a/getting-found-staying-found/en/getting-found-visibility.md +++ b/getting-found-staying-found/en/getting-found-visibility.md @@ -275,6 +275,26 @@ It is increasingly common that funders require projects to include a knowledge t * Social media can amplify your story, but the substantive content usually resides elsewhere such as a news website, institutional blog, or your journal’s announcements page. * Journal content can have a long life. Consider promoting articles published several years earlier, especially if an article can fill an information vacuum for something current. +## Checklist + +> Contributed by Stuart Yeates and Max Sullivan + +Before you start any promotion: +* Validate your OAI-PMH feed. There are a number of OAI-PMH validators which provide a third-party check of you metadata, for example: https://validator.oaipmh.com/ https://oval.base-search.net/ https://validator.dini.de/ +* Check your SSL certificate using one of a number of checkers, for example: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html https://www.sslchecker.com/sslchecker +* Check the ISSN details on https://portal.issn.org/ These details are very important if journal ownership becomes contested. +* Check the DOI metadata by searching for articles on https://search.crossref.org/search/ Only applies it using DOIs and getting them via CrossRef Search for an article by title and then "Actions" -> "Metadata as JSON" and check all he details. Articles can take 48 hours to appear here after registering the DOI and providing the metadata. +* Save the journal homepage to https://web.archive.org/save or similar web harvester. This will fail if you have a insitutional firewall or similar bocking external access. Important if journal ownership becomes contested. +* Browse the journal website with the browser console open, looking for errors or warnings that may be relavent. + +Places to check / add your journal, if appropiate: +* Directory of Open Access Journals https://doaj.org/ +* Retraction Watch Database https://retractiondatabase.org/ +* Unpaywall https://unpaywall.org/ +* Google scholar https://scholar.google.com/ +* Wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/ DOI metadata can be imported (from crossref) into wikidata using https://scholia.toolforge.org/doi/ +* Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/ Requires journal meet notability requirements; not recommended for new journals. + ## Further Reading Library Publishing Coalition (LPC) Webinar Series: [ORCID in Publishing Workflows](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A3sk13C7QM)