Selecting a Publication for your Scholarly Work: Identifying Possible Journals
UB Libraries is here to help. This guide contains tools to help you locate suitable journals for your manuscripts and also to help with identifying predatory journals.
Create a Website
Whether you’re interested in promoting your entire research portfolio or a specific project, having a UB website is important for getting the word out about your work. The University offers support to make website development easy.
Work with the Media
Contact the Public Relations office to help guide and prepare you for the media opportunity.
Build a Social Media Presence
We are taking over your digital feeds with alluring stories that will have you tagging #UBuffalo. Our goal is simple: to make your online journey as captivating as your experiences on campus, in the classroom, or at the lab bench. We’re here to connect you to others, answer your questions and help you set up your digital strategy. Please reach out to us at ubsocial@buffalo.edu.
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Steps to manage and launch a website
Requesting a UBCMS Site
Standing up a website is a great way to gain visibility to your center but it will take a lot of planning and preparation. UB Web Management has put together a list of steps to help navigate you and your team.
Training
Before you request the launch of your new site, please ensure that you have reviewed the UBCMS Basics and completed the self-paced training videos and exercises.
UBCMS Site Creation Process
Once you have thoroughly reviewed the background preparation steps the website owners or managers can request a content area in UBCMS to publish a site.
Before requesting help using the UBCMS please be sure you have reviewed these
DCT Solutions Group master classes, online tutorials, and known issues & workarounds.
Additional tools available
Building a successful website
To build an effective website, it's crucial to understand both your organization's needs and core messages, as well as the needs of your users, ensuring the site serves everyone well. Since websites are strategy-driven projects focused more on communication than technology, it's important to define clear roles and responsibilities for planning, content development, site building and stewardship.
UB Web Management has provided useful guidelines, training and resources to help you create the most appropriate content for the Web.
Creative Services
Hire creative and editorial support from UB's pre-qualified list of vendors to help you create communication/event material, writing and more.
UB Branding Resources
The Brand and Identity website outlines the different elements of the UB brand and provide examples of how we express it across our institution and in our communications.
You will also have access to UB logos, mood boards, graphics, templates and more!
Demo Site and Interactive Playground
Learn how features work on the UBCMS demo site or dig deeper within the Interactive Playground to examine settings and edit LIVE components.