Publication support

Assign a persistent identifier (DOI) to your publications

A DOI, or Digital Object Identifier, is a unique, persistent identifier that is used to identify, reference and cite an electronic source (data, publications, reports, working papers, maps, images, etc.) by means of a stable, clickable link. It is a key element in referencing publications, as it provides a reliable, permanent reference even if the resource is renamed or moved.

At Sciences Po, DOI assignment is administered by the registration agency DataCite, represented in France by Inist-CNRS. We handle applications concerning publications deposited in SPIRE (declaration to Inist-CNRS, generation of DOIs, persistence checks, application follow-up, metadata updates). This service is free for the Sciences Po community.

Applications concerning datasets are managed by the CDSP.
 

Understand your rights as an author

Publishing your research (in a journal or book, on a website, on social networks, etc.) raises questions of copyright, whether to protect your work or to respect the rights of co-authors.

Throughout the publishing process, we can give you advice and tips on reading publishing contracts, negotiating addenda with your publisher to publish your article on a website, choosing a license to disseminate your work online, reusing content created by third parties, etc.

Please feel free to contact us for help on any of these issues.

Create and manage your digital identity with ORCID

ORCID stands for Open Researcher and Contributor ID. It is a permanent international identifier that uniquely and unambiguously identifies researchers and facilitates the attribution of publications. ORCID is now recognised and used by many organisations in the research sphere (publishers, funders, institutions, etc.) and information systems (bibliographic databases, content repository platforms, open archives, etc.). It is a key element in building a researcher’s digital identity and visibility.

Are you yet to obtain an ORCID  and want to register for one? Do you already have an ORCID but don’t know how to use it? Do you have several ORCIDs and want to deduplicate them? Do you use other identifiers (Publons ex ResearcherID, Scopus Author ID, IdHAL, etc.) and want to link them to your ORCID account? Our publication specialist is here to help you with every step of creating and managing your ORCID profile.

Deposit on the Spire institutional repository

Spire is Sciences Po’s open access institutional repository. It brings together all publications stemming from research conducted at Sciences Po. As part of the open science movement, Spire aims to make this research as widely available as possible.

What is open access? How do I find my way around open access repositories and academic social networks? Do I have the right to disseminate my publications? Between the pre-print, post-print, and publisher’s version, which version am I allowed to post online? How do I deposit research on Spire?

The Sciences Po library, with help from correspondents in the research centres, will guide you in depositing your publications.

Disseminate or publish your thesis

A thesis is the outcome of a major piece of research that should be promoted, disseminated and protected. Dissemination can take several forms, including digital dissemination, publication in the form of a book or as the basis for an article, etc. At Sciences Po, theses are referenced and archived on Spire, the institutional repository, according to the terms of distribution set by the author (open access, embargoed, or confidential).

What are the advantages of online publication? Which dissemination agreement should I choose? Is there a risk of plagiarism? What images can I publish in my thesis? Can I disseminate my thesis and publish it with a publisher? 

Manage your bibliography and your PDF

The Library supports you with the presentation of your bibliographic references and organizing your sources. In order to facilitate your research, we strongly recommend you to use bibliographic management tools, such as Zotero, a free and open software.
The citation styles developed by the School of Research can be used with Zotero but also Mendely or LaTex.

We organize group or individual trainings throughout the year, according to your needs.

Open access publishing

Publishing in open access means making the results of one’s research freely available and ensuring greater visibility and citability. Open access publishing uses a number of funding models that vary from publisher to publisher, with or without publication fees.

Today, open access publishing is widely encouraged and may even be required by research funding bodies (ANR, European Commission, European Research Council, etc).

But how to choose a journal or publisher to publish in open access? How do I find out about a publisher’s open access policy? What are the publication fees (article processing charges or APCs) charged by a journal? Does the journal I want to publish in have an agreement with Sciences Po? Can my laboratory or Sciences Po Library finance the APCs charged by a journal?

If you want to know more, contact us! 

Using images

Reusing images from your sources (books, articles, websites, etc.) or visuals that you may or may not have produced yourself raises a number of issues, both in terms of copyright and image rights, and of citation standards and technical constraints.

The library can support you by answering specific questions or providing tailored tutoring sessions on your use of images and other visuals (tables, graphs, maps, etc.) in your publications.

If you wish, the subject librarian can also give you some ideas on how to properly reference your visuals as you go along, and the standards for citing them.