Roger Watson, Editor-in-Chief

If the answer to the title of this entry is ‘yes’ and you
have recently published a paper in
JAN,
then why not take the opportunity to promote your paper with a short You Tube video
clip featuring yourself? The
opportunities for promoting your work through social media, such as Twitter,
Facebook and blogs are immense and YouTube is another medium. For example, see how one journal the
International
Journal of Clinical Practice has used YouTube on its home page.

There is nothing new about the use of these media and at
JAN we have been using our
Twitter
page to great effect and others have been re-tweeting our entries
and generating considerable interest in some papers. For example, a recent article entitled: '
Can I get a retweet please? Health research recruitment and the Twittershpere' has, literally, been re-tweeted very effectively. At the time of writing, according to Altimetric, it has been
tweeted 295 times from 259 accounts, to over 312,000 followers.

If you don't have a webcam or simply don’t like the idea of
appearing in front of a camera, an alternative is the podcast where your voice
is heard but you don’t have to be seen.
In case you are wondering if any respectable journals (other than
JAN) are offering this facility, then
look no further than
The Lancet podcast page. These short
presentations provide authors with the opportunity to convey their message less
formally, to highlight the important points in their paper and to set their
work in context.
The Lancet podcasts are done with an interviewer; we can’t offer
that facility, but we can point you to some
guidelines for podcasts.
But back to videos (
The
Lancet is no stranger to
YouTube either), we feel
that these are an especially engaging way to convey your message and, while we
will also be happy with podcasts, a video introduces more of a human
factor.
Our guidelines also cover making videos.
We try to lead by example at
JAN and modesty does not prevent me from sharing a link with you to
a
short video I made
recently in Australia. This was very professionally
done, with an interviewer, proper lighting and excellent recording equipment.
Don’t worry if you can’t reach these sorts of standards.
If you wish to take advantage of this opportunity the please
contact the
JAN office at
jan@wiley.com.
Great idea. I have a YouTube channel and use it to vlog. Unfortunately, The articles I am involved in is in Nurse Education Today!
ReplyDeleteKerry, well, when you publish a paper in JAN you can use this opportunity. Congratulations on your NET paper.
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