Writing and Publishing

Alicia Livinski joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Library in 2007. Alicia supports the Administration for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Immediate Office of the Secretary, and the Office of Global Affairs (OGA) in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

General Information 

The NIH Library currently provides limited funding assistance in an effort to support authors affiliated with the National Institutes of Health to publish in an open access format.

Open Access Publishing Agreements

The National Institutes of Health Library has agreements with several publishers that allow you to publish open access in selected journal titles free of charge. See funding request instructions to submit a request for APC coverage.

What We Do

As part of our Research Analytics services, the NIH Library’s Bibliometric Service provides publication analysis to NIH staff. The service uses analytics to understand and evaluate the publications produced by intramural NIH scientists and institutions at NIH.

We provide the following services: 

Biosketches are used more and more in NIH internal reports. Participants will learn how to create a Biosketch with efficiency. Participants will also learn the appropriate components needed to put their best foot forward.

Choosing a quality journal to publish in can be a daunting task. In this class, participants will become familiar with the available resources and tools to assist in targeting quality journals, as well as ways to recognize questionable or predatory journals. Additional topics include tips to avoid a predatory conference, evaluating invitations to serve as a peer review or editorial board member, preprint servers, and what to do if you published with a questionable journal will be covered.

To help you stay out of hot water, we start this page with the NIH Catalyst article, Copyrighting Right, by Stephanie Cooperstein and Christopher Wanjek. You will learn about misconceptions (What is fair use? Can I put that cartoon in my slide show?) and how to address them.

This class will help authors navigate the legal and ethical issues surrounding copyright and plagiarism, identify and avoid potential copyright infringement issues, and ensure the integrity of their work as a component of their publishing process. This is part of NIH LIbrary's writing and publishing class series that supports writing, publishing, and scholarly communication.

This class is a part of the systematic reviews class series. Systematic and scoping reviews are a complex undertaking and involve multiple steps in order to produce a quality review. Developing a protocol to guide the conduct of your review is a critical step. This class explains what a review protocol is, how to develop one, and how to use it for the conduct of your review. Resources to develop the protocol and where to register or publish it will be shared.