For more information on NOAA publishing mandates, regulations and policies and the NOAA Institutional Repository please visit our Publishing and Scholarly Communications Guide.
For more information on persistent identifiers like ORCID, please visit our ORCID For Researchers Guide.
The NOAA Library research team provides NOAA programs with expert research support. Our services save you time and add value to your project by conducting thorough literature searches to support your work, whether it be for scientific research or making policy decisions. Our services and products are fully customizable and tailored to your needs.
Please see our Research Services Guide or contact the NOAA Library Research Team at library.reference@noaa.gov.
The NOAA Library maintains an enterprise-wide subscription to EndNote, which allows for use by any NOAA employee or contract employee with a noaa.gov email. Reference management is critical when working within a group on literature reviews or when maintaining a personal library of literature relevant to your research.
Explore this software here.
Bibliometrics are the quantitative analysis of academic publications. Using academic publications as a data source, bibliometric analysis attempts to provide a better understanding of how research is produced, organized, and interrelated. It also attempts to evaluate academic publications and sets of publications based on the number of citations these publications have received. Bibliometrics and citation analysis is one way the NOAA Library is able to illustrate NOAA's status as producer of world-class research.
Bibliometrics can help illustrate the impact of a scholarly publication or group of publications in the greater research community and can support application for grants and research funding.
When used with other methods such as peer review, bibliometrics is a useful tool in evaluating the research output of programs and researchers.
Bibliometrics can be used to identify research strengths and gaps in research and inform decisions about future research.
An Alternative to APCs
Subscribe to Open (or S2O) is an alternative to APCs. It is a method employed by publishers to use library subscription revenue to convert paywalled journals to full open access (OA; free and immediate online access to research articles). A sufficient level of subscription payments from the research community must be received by the publisher each year for the designated S2O journal(s) to remain OA. Therefore:
S2O is becoming more prevalent, especially for smaller, more niche publishers.
S2O @ NOAA
Currently the NOAA Library Network subscriptions are supporting the following S2O publishers/ journals:
Annual Reviews: a nonprofit publisher that invites authoritative authors to submit reviews. All reviews published are invited from the Annual Reviews Editorial Committees
To learn more about Annual Reviews S2O program and other titles covered see their website. Authors who are invited to submit a review can learn more about the submission process here.
