About publicationslist.org

PublicationsList.org was established in 2007 by the founders of Textensor Limited, Robert Cannon and Fred Howell, to address the problem of maintaining a professional academic publications list online.

One expects to be able to read the papers written by a researcher by clicking on a link from their personal home page, but keeping a publications list up to date, and looking professional can be time consuming.

The open access movement and many funding bodies are pushing to make it easier for people to access the research they fund, but many people are reluctant to go to the effort of submitting preprints to public open access repositories (even though most journals now permit it, only a tiny fraction of papers are submitted to public repositories or published in open access journals), perhaps because although it offers a community benefit there is a time cost and little immediate reward for an individual researcher. Researchers do have an interest in making their own online publications list look good, however, and improving access has been shown to boost citation counts of papers.

The publicationslist.org site aims to streamline this process with an easy to use web front end which any researcher can use to maintain their own, professional looking list of publications, which can be hosted on publicationslist.org, or embedded within a departmental web page. Links to full text preprints, or versions in open access repositories and journal websites can be included.

Although it starts by focussing on the needs of the individual researcher in having a good looking record of their publications, publicationslist.org also offers a solution to research groups and departments in presenting their public website - since the information the staff members enter can be easily collected and embedded within the department's own site without the usual maintenance and support overheads of developing an in-house database.

We are very interested in hearing feedback on the site or suggestions for features we could add to make it more useful, so please get in touch with ideas.

Contact

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