Journal Suggesting Tools

Not sure where to publish your research? We can help with that! With these tools, you'll be able to enter text from your title and abstract and receive a list of potential journals which you can explore further.

Exploring OER

Open Educational Resources Guide
Open educational resources (OER) take the form of open textbooks, online learning modules, recorded lectures and demonstrations, course outlines, syllabi, and lesson plans, quizzes, scoring tools, and grading rubrics, and much, much more. You can use OER for teaching and research, or create your own!

OER Discovery & Creation Tools

PubPub
"The open-source, community-led, end-to-end publishing platform for knowledge communities."
Publishing Communities
"The Open Education Network provides its members with education, support and resources to expand open textbook publishing in higher education. Our community also creates and shares resources that anyone can use to advance their OER publishing goals."
LibreTexts
"The libraries are part of a huge network that provides not just single textbooks, but an infinitely large library through which new texts can be developed & shared."
OpenStax Instructor Account
This account will give you access to course cartridges, PowerPoints, getting started guides, and diversity and representation development guidelines.
Rebus Community Resources
"[They] offer several resources, including the award-winning A Guide to Making Open Textbooks with Students and our ongoing Rebus Guide to Publishing Open Textbooks (So Far), along with its accompanying video series on YouTube."
Pressbooks Guide
How to publish using Pressbooks.
H5P
Free, open source, interactive content creation tool that allows you to embed multimedia activities in your OER. For a paid creator license, contact Learning Technologies Librarian Brittni Ballard: bballard@towson.edu
Publishing Agreement Template
80 OER Tools
This list contains "80 online resources that you can use to learn how to build or participate in a collaborative educational effort that focuses on publication and development of those materials."

Citation Management Tools

Citation management software can help you:

Conveniently and securely store, organize, and track sources by project, class, or theme.
Create accurate citations and bibliographies instantly in any format (including APA, Chicago, and MLA).
Easily find and retrieve sources you’ve previously saved.
Engage in active and collaborative reading by digitally highlighting and commenting on PDFs and other common file types.

Brand new to citation management? We recommend Zotero because it's free and works with the most file types!

Data Citation

DataCite - Cite Your Data
Books and journal articles have long benefited from an infrastructure that makes them easy to cite, a key element in the process of research and academic discourse. We believe that you should cite data in just the same way that you can cite other sources of information, such as articles and books.

Data Verse - Data Citation
The Dataverse Project standardizes the citation of datasets to make it easier for researchers to publish their data and get credit as well as recognition for their work. When you create a dataset in a Dataverse repository, the citation is generated and presented automatically.

USGS - Data Citation
Data citation is the practice of referencing data products used in research. A data citation includes key descriptive information about the data, such as the title, source, and responsible parties.

ICPSR - Citing Data

Citing Data

It's important to cite data right. Proper citation ensures that research data can be:

discovered
reused
replicated for verification
credited for recognition
tracked to measure usage and impact

How to Cite Data

Citing data is straightforward. Each citation must include the basic elements that allow a unique dataset to be identified over time:

Author
Title
Distributor
Date
Version
Persistent identifier (such as the Digital Object Identifier, Uniform Resource Name URN, or Handle System)

Citing Generative AI

Generative artificial intelligence aka Gen AI tools are changing our relationships with work, school, and each other. It can be very helpful for certain tasks, like translating across languages or providing alternative text for images. However, it can also foster overreliance on the technology and minimize long-term learning. This brief activity will help you understand how and when to use Gen AI at TU.

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