Video Summaries
Expand Awareness and Reach New Audiences
Video summaries are an excellent way to increase the visibility of your research in the scientific community and a great tool to explain why your article is important to all levels of the research community. Videos take a personal approach, help attract more visits to an online article, and lead to increased downloads and citations of your work. More and more publishers are adopting video summaries as a great way to display equipment, highlight methods, reach the public and promote research articles. In less than an hour you can create one of your own, even with limited experience. Best of all, there is no cost to you.
A brief, easy to create video allows you to explain why your research findings are significant and help summarize the results documented in your published journal article.
American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), and Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) journals encourage authors to create and provide a summary video of their accepted article. This can be as simple as a recorded PowerPoint presentation from your computer desktop or a recorded video of you summarizing the work. If you’re a little intimidated by the thought of recording, ask a family member or student to assist.
After sharing your video summary with the journal Managing Editor, our publications team will take it from there. We will add a title to the video and add the URL to allow individuals to easily locate your article online. Once complete, we will upload the video to our hosting site and add a link to the video on your article on the Wiley Online Library. We will also share the URL so you can view and share the link to your video with your colleagues and your institution’s PR department.
Choose an article accepted by our journals and set a plan to create a video summary. Budget your time to organize, write your outline and record.
What should I talk about?
This is an opportunity to present your paper through video and promotional opportunities like social media, potentially drawing in a larger readership for the paper. Much as with your written abstract, the video summary should tell the audience what your paper is about and your key results and conclusions. Please note, your video abstract will not be peer reviewed or edited, and will be posted exactly as you provide it, aside from the additions listed below.
We suggest you use a relaxed but serious tone for your talk. Practice, but do not completely script your talk to avoid a monotone presentation. Feel free to include a few figures from your paper in the video summary, particularly if they are easy to read and convey your message. Complicated figures and tables are difficult to present in a short video. If you must, highlight a small portion.
For assistance recording your video, please read our helpful guidelines and tips.
Our editors will review the video to ensure quality of the video content, but the video is not peer reviewed. We will also add the journal logo, the title of your article and the URL of the article on the Wiley Online Library.
Once completed, please SUBMIT your video to the journal editorial office along with article details and your contact information.