Faculty Scholarship Services
The Law Library supports our faculty’s scholarship by making it visible and accessible in a variety of ways. Sue Zago is the current manager of these services and can answer your questions.
The UNH Scholars’ Repository is a central location and publishing platform for collecting and promoting scholarship and creative work by UNH faculty, students, staff, institutes, and programs. Scholarship in the repository is indexed by search services such as Google, making it accessible to a wide audience. The Scholars’ Repository also provides a central location for archiving UNH scholarship for long-term access, promotes the rights of authors to control their intellectual property, and furthers the concept of Open Access to research. The UNH FP Law Library maintains a slice of this repository for our faculty’s scholarly output.
The Law Library provides our full-time law faculty with fully mediated deposit into the Scholars’ Repository (SR). This includes:
After the item is deposited, the library can help authors work with their download statistics at whatever level is needed. Please contact Sue Zago for any questions.
MyElements is a research information system. It can automatically collect information related to research and scholarship using open data sources and certain licensed library databases. MyElements also connects to other UNH systems to collect personnel, grants, and teaching information. MyElements is also used to view and capture important profile information that will be fed to Findscholars, a web tool to share the university's research and scholarship with the world, and the faculty profiles on the college websites.
The Law Library provides a mediated service for populating faculty pages in Myelements. Faculty are asked to note scholarly publications, any promotional publications/popular works, white papers, briefs, etc. as well as any external service work on a shared document. Sue Zago will then input that information into MyElements on a periodic basis. Sue also works with new faculty to set up faculty profiles and input their ORCID into the system.
Websites change, go away, and get taken down. When linked citations lead to broken, blank, altered, or even malicious pages, that’s called link rot. Perma.cc helps scholars, journals, courts, and others create permanent records of the web sources they cite. Due to copyright issues, it only creates permalinks to open web sources. It will reject any attempt to create a links from a paid services such as Lexis, Westlaw, B-Law, HeinOnline, JSTOR and others. UNH Law is an institutional provider for the community. Our law journals use Perma:cc. Contact Jon Cavicchi to be set up as a user. Please know that you are able to set up a personal account. If you do, it may not be associated with UNH and the number of links you create may be limited.
Scholastica is a journal management product used in various disciplines, and it enables authors to submit manuscripts to multiple publications at a time. More than 500 law reviews accept submissions via Scholastica, and the current list can be viewed by going to https://app.scholasticahq.com/journals and selecting "Law Reviews" from the "Currently displaying" dropdown menu. From this alphabetized list, click "Read more" to view additional information about a particular law review, such as publishing timelines, contact information, and links to the publication's website.
To see the list of law reviews that are currently accepting submissions through Scholastica, go to https://scholasticahq.com/law-review-submission-season-hq and search or browse through the list. Click on the "Open?" column heading to change the display to those law reviews that are not currently accepting submissions.
The Faculty list is updated regularly by Jon Cavicchi. You should have received an email asking you to accept the invitation. If you did, you have associated yourself to the UNH Law account and are ready to login. Once logged into your Scholastica account, click the "Submit a manuscript" button near the top of the page, which will bring you to the first step in the submission process: selecting law reviews. You can submit your manuscript to one law review by searching for it or scroll to that title and click on it. There is no limit on the number of schools you can submit. The policy is that you can spend up to $300 per article. Beyond that, you may be asked to contribute the balance from your faculty account. UNH Law promotes scholarship and currently faculty have not been asked to contribute beyond the $300 limit.
A few years ago, the US News and World Report planned to measure law faculty impact using HeinOnline’s database. While this idea was never put into play, the Law Library considers keeping the HeinOnline Author Profiles up to date as a way to market our faculty’s scholarly output.
Sue Zago will work with you to update your faculty profile including linking your ORCID.
Connecting your ORCID to HeinOnline allows you to “display your HeinOnline works on your ORCID record” - meaning that all publications appearing in your Hein author profile will be automatically added to your ORCID profile. Also, it works the opposite way. If there’s a publication listed in your ORCID profile but not in your Hein author profile that could be counted as well.
You can also make Sue Zago a trusted individual within ORCID. She can help you manage your ORCID account – see https://support.orcid.org/hc/en-us/articles/360006973613-Add-a-trusted-individual-to-your-account