Scholarly Publishing and Visualization Hub: Publish

Our team offers workshops on topics including conducting literature reviews, navigating literature databases, understanding artificial intelligence, choosing appropriate publication targets, and more. Visit our Workshops & Events page for future offerings.

The ISMMS Writing Support Service provides students, housestaff, and postdocs with 1:1 no-cost consultations from an experienced science writer and editor in a collaborative, non-judgmental, and confidential setting. Our writing support consultants are happy to collaborate with you at any stage of the writing process, from brainstorming to drafting to revising, to help make your manuscript more clear and effective. Our consultants can also work with you to ensure that your cover letter, responses to reviewers, and other documents necessary for manuscript submission and publication are as clearly presented as possible.

The Library is a resource for correctly citing all kinds of scholarly works and tools.  To access the style guides, visit our writing resources support page.  We recently created a Citing ChatGPT guide to aid users in citing ChatGPT free, pro, and EDU licensed versions. 

Identifying a journal to submit your work to can be a daunting decision. The Levy Library offers a Journal Selection guide as well as the PubsHub tool to compare potential target journals. Information provided includes: journal impact factor, circulation statistics, publication turnaround time, rejection rates, open access status, peer-reviewed status, what types of articles the journal accepts, and more.

The University of Oxford defines plagiarism as "Presenting work or ideas from another source as your own, with or without consent of the original author, by incorporating it into your work without full acknowledgement. All published and unpublished material, whether in manuscript, printed or electronic form, is covered under this definition, as is the use of material generated wholly or in part through use of artificial intelligence."

Knowing whether or not you have sufficiently modified source materials isn't always clear. The Library has collected a variety of resources to help you navigate this process. You can access that information here.

In addition, the Library license a plagiarism detection tool called iThenticate. Limited licenses are available, learn more here.

As soon as a work is created it is protected by copyright law. Our Copyright & Fair Use guide discusses the basics of copyright and fair use.

While the author or creator of a work initially owns its copyright, this may change when works are published depending on the agreement that you sign when publishing your work.  Our Authors Rights guide provides an overview on knowing your rights and negotiating with publishers.

Open access publishing ensures the widest possible exposure for your research while maintaining the rights to reuse and distribute your work. The Library provides an Open Access guide discussing this publishing model.  

The Levy Library has arranged with several publishers for no cost and discounted options for Mount Sinai authors to publish work as Open Access.

We also publish open access journals through the Levy Library Press (see below)

The Levy Library Press promotes equitable access to peer-reviewed scholarship across scientific discovery, medicine, nursing, healthcare, and population health. It provides a platform and interprofessional learning environment for transformative and sustainable scholarly communication.The Levy Library Press is supported by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and its Gustave L. and Janet W. Levy Library. We do not charge authors any fees for submission, processing, or publication. Content in Levy Library Press journals is open access for all readers. To learn more about how to get involved with our open access journals, contact us.

The Medical Student Research Office provides many supports medical students publishing their work.  One example is funding towards the costs of publishing in open access journals that charge author processing fees (APCs).

The Mount Sinai Center for Stress, Resilience, and Personal Growth (CSRPG) can help. Research and progress may not follow a linear trend; sometimes there are setbacks, and they happen to all of us. Although some of these setbacks might be inevitable, recovering from them can be challenging. If you are looking for individual one-on-one behavioral health support to help you bounce back from setbacks, the Center is here to support you.

Interested in learning more about Levy Library’s support and resources for Scholarly Publishing?
Email refdesk@mssm.edu

Interested in collaborating with one of our medical illustrators?
Email visualization@mssm.edu