Publishing a video on JRNLclub expands the reach of your work, allowing scientists within and outside your field to understand your latest research.

Who can submit?

We welcome submissions once your article has been officially or unofficially accepted by a peer reviewed journal. We will conduct a video resolution and audio quality check of each submission.

Once you have the PubMed unique identifier (PMID) for your peer reviewed article, your video will be published.

Only first or co-first authors and corresponding authors can be the primary presenter.

Corresponding author(s) on the paper must give permission for publication of your research video.

Guidelines

FILMING THE PRESENTATION

If you’d like to record your talk without face capture (example here), we recommend using the Powerpoint “Record Slide Show” feature (tutorial here). This will allow you to easily use presenter view if you’d like have your slide notes available during recording.

• Windows: do use your mouse to point to figures you’re talking about—this helps the viewer follow along. Macs: Powerpoint will not record your laser pointer movements. Consider using animated arrows/boxes to highlight data you’re talking about.

• Afterwards, please create an MP4 video file from Powerpoint by clicking File > Export > MP4 as the file name. Make sure to watch the MP4 video to be sure the timings/animations and recordings are to your liking prior to sending us the video file.  

Alternatively (i.e. if not using Powerpoint), you can use QuickTime Player (Mac—tutorial here) or GameDVR (Windows—tutorial here) to record your screen and narration.

• As above, we recommend using your mouse to point to figures you’re talking about to help viewers follow along.

If you’d like to include face capture of the speaker (example here), it may be more technically challenging (may take an hour to get the hang of using the software), but entirely doable.

• We recommend using the free software Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) to screen capture the presentation while simultaneously recording the audio and video of the presenter.

• Here is a video tutorial (skip 12:30-19:30 and 26:20 to the end). You can find text instructions on using OBS here. 

The camera and microphone on your desktop or laptop is often sufficient however, you may wish to consider a dedicated microphone(<$20 on Amazon) to generate higher quality audio. 

Please reach out to us at contact@jrnlclub.org if you have any questions or comments.

FILM REQUIREMENTS

• 8-15 minutes in length. In extenuating circumstances, we may publish videos shorter or longer, but this requires discussion prior to publication.

• Viewers may not be in your field—please include background that explains why your work is cool or important. Target a general biomedical research audience to help scientists outside your field understand your work.

• Please do include and explain your figures! This should be like a talk you might give at a research conference.

• Please include the photo(s) of the presenter(s) on the title slide (optional).

• The work should be presented by the first/co-first or corresponding author(s). Contact us if you’d like us to make an exception.

• Video resolution requirements: 720p (1280x720) or 1080p (1920x1080). 

• Acceptance of the peer reviewed article to a scientific journal prior to submission (we will not review films without proof of acceptance). We accept emails from journal editors as proof of acceptance. 

• Verified PMID prior to publication on the platform.