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Scholarly Publishing

This LibGuide on Scholarly Publishing shows you how to select and vet credible journals as well as informs you about your author rights.

Writing Resources

Avoiding Plagiarism at JHU
This course from the JH Libraries will help you learn the basics of avoiding plagiarism during your academic career and beyond. The course reviews the definition of plagiarism and common knowledge, in addition to how to cite, quote, paraphrase, and summarize. Also covered are different factors that can increase or decrease the risk of plagiarizing.

To access the course, login to my.jh.edu with your JHED, access myLearning, and search for "Avoiding Plagiarism at JHU" in the course catalog.

Writing Center at the Bloomberg School of Public Health

This center serves Bloomberg School students enrolled in degree programs.  It offers free, personalized support for scholarly writing assignments.

Johns Hopkins Medicine Office Templates
Johns Hopkins University takes their branding seriously. These office templates can be used to create documents, presentations, etc.

JHU ReVision
ReVision offers free, confidential editing services to the JHU research community for manuscripts, grant applications, personal statements, and more. This service is not available for any projects that will be graded or assessed (including dissertations and thesis proposals).

Written Scholarship Courses - School of Medicine Office of Faculty: Faculty Development 
This site connects you to future and recorded courses on the best practices of writing in the biomedical sciences

Professional Development and Career Office (PDCO)
The PDCO’s “Job Search Toolkit” provides guidance on writing CVs, cover letters, research statements, etc. The PDCO’s “Professional Skills” resources include grant writing guidance.

Writing Accountability Groups (WAGs)
​A WAG is an active writing group that meets once a week over a 10-week block and follows a strict agenda of 15 minutes of updates and goal-setting followed by 30 minutes of individual writing, and then 15 minutes of reporting and wrap-up (there is no peer review of your writing – the WAG is focused on developing a process and habit of writing). A WAG is limited to 4-8 members and you MUST commit to attending at least 7 of the 10 weekly sessions. There are over 50 WAGs at JHU and anyone including students, trainees, post-docs, and faculty at all levels can join!

Software

Cost

Description

Website

TurnItIn

Institutional license only

For faculty to check originality and quality of content.

https://canvas.jhu.edu/faculty-resources/third-party-tools/turnitin/

Dupli Checker

Free

Dupli Checker detects plagiarism from your text accurately. Cut and paste content into the text box or upload your document and press “Check Plagiarism”. The results will give you a percentage of “unique content” and “plagiarized content”.

https://www.duplichecker.com/

Dustball

Free copy and paste; $8/month for up to 50 uploads

Copy and paste (free) or upload (with subscription).  Gives location of plagiarism and links to check original sources.

http://www.dustball.com/cs/plagiarism.checker/

Grammerly Plagiarism Checker

Free, but must create account for detailed results like location of error

Grammarly’s grammar and plagiarism checker scans your text for plagiarized content and grammatical errors.

http://www.grammarly.com/plagiarism-checker/

Plagiarisma

Free

Plagiarisma has a search box as well as a software download available for Windows. Users can also search for entire URLs and files in HTML, DOC, DOCX, RTF, TXT, ODT and PDF formats.

http://plagiarisma.net/

Plagiarism Detector

Free

Copy and paste your text into the text box to run the scan for plagiarism.

http://plagiarismdetector.net/

Paper Rater

Free

Paper Rater offers three tools: Grammar Checking, Plagiarism Detection and Writing. It is a free resource that is developed and maintained by linguistics professionals and graduate students.

http://www.paperrater.com/ 

Quetext

Free

Quetext is a leading plagiarism-detection software, providing services to over 2 million teachers, students, and professionals worldwide. 

https://www.quetext.com/

Viper

Free

Viper is a fast plagiarism detection tools with the ability to scan your document through more than 10 billion resources, such as academic essays and other online sources, offering side-by-side comparisons for plagiarism. Just keep in mind that it requires a download. Just note that Viper is available to Microsoft Windows users only.

http://www.scanmyessay.com

AMA Manual of Style
This is a must-have guide for anyone involved in medical and scientific publishing. It provides everything you need to produce well-organized and clear manuscripts.

APA Style CENTRAL
You can select of one of their paper templates to help you write in APA style.

Bloomberg School of Public Health Editorial Style Guide
These are a set of guidelines that draw from the current editions of the AP Stylebook and from guidelines compiled by editors in the Office of Communications at JHU.

Citing Medicine: The NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers
This is a book that helps authors in compiling lists of references for their publications.

Johns Hopkins University Style Guide
These guidelines were compiled by editors in the Office of Communications to encourage consistency and correct usage of terms across the many publications produced by JHU offices. The guidelines draw from the 56th edition of The Associated Press Stylebook and the 17th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style. Written from a Johns Hopkins point of view, the guidelines are intended to complement AP and CMOS and, when those sources disagree, to choose between them.

EQUATOR Network
This website contains reporting guidelines for study types below:

  • Randomized trials
  • Observational studies
  • Systematic reviews
  • Study protocols
  • Diagnostic/prognostic studies
  • Case reports
  • Clinical practice guideline
  • Qualitative research
  • Animal pre-clinical studies
  • Quality improvement studies
  • Economic evaluations

FAIRsharing

National Library of Medicine
This website contains a chart that lists the major biomedical research reporting guidelines that provide advice for reporting research methods and findings. The charts also includes editorial style guides for writing research reports or other publications.

An Electronic Thesis or Dissertation (ETD) is a requirement for graduation from Doctoral programs and available to graduates from Masters programs. Please refer to The Sheridan Libraries ELECTRONIC THESES & DISSERTATIONS (ETDS) page for answers to the following:

How and when do I submit my ETD?

  • Who does this apply to?
  • Are there associated fees?
  • And more...