What Should You Do With a Paper After It's Been Published?

Dr. Art Carden talks about next steps following the publication of your paper.

Dr. Carden is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Rhodes College in Memphis, a Research Fellow with the Independent Institute, a Senior Fellow with the Beacon Center of Tennessee, and a regular contributor to Forbes.com and Mises.org.

Filmed at the Institute for Humane Studies' HSF-RC weekend seminar on November 5, 2011.

Transcript:

What do you with a paper after it has been published? Maybe you get a PDF that the journal sent you, may be you have actual physical off prints. One of the best pieces of advice that I have gotten is to take those copies of the paper and send a copy to everybody who appears in your bibliography. This helps the people in your bibliography know that you have made a contribution. It also helps the people in your bibliography know that they have made a contribution, indeed one that was worth citing in your article. This helps to move the great conversation forward; it helps to make sure that your voice is heard by precisely the people who need to be hearing your voice. How do you know they need to hear your voice? Because you’re building on their work. By sending them copies of your paper you might first of all ensure that you get cited going forward and second of all help to ensure that the conversation itself actually proceeds and really proceeds in a meaningful way. So this is a way to get additional exposure for your work and it is also a way to improve the overall quality and tone of this great conversation in which we’re involved.