nanoHUB now serves over 200,000 users annually. These computational scientists, experimentalists, educators, and students benefit from over 3,000 resources by over 890 contributors who publish on nanoHUB. nanoHUB contributors (authors) benefit tremendously from their publishing. How do they benefit and how might you benefit similarly?

As a prospective nanoHUB contributor, consider the following. nanoHUB delivers a large audience to you. Your work has the immediacy of the top journals on the day your publish on nanoHUB. nanoHUB lets you publish simulation tools and seminars, materials for which traditionally you could not publish widely or at all and, thus, could not benefit from readily. Then, nanoHUB delivers usage data on your content to help you quantify the impact of your materials. This information is available in various downloadable forms to help you prepare your own documents that tell the quantitative story of your success to others. Next, nanoHUB delivers information on your impact in the scientific literature. NCN finds citations to all nanoHUB content (857 to date) and links those papers that refer to your items right onto the page describing your material for all to see your growing citation network. NCN also maps citation information into social network charts to further show how your materials are being used. Finally, nanoHUB users provide reviews, ratings, questions and answers, and wishes for your content items. This broad feedback can prove invaluable.

For graduate students thinking about publishing on nanoHUB, your research can now appear not just on the static pages of research publications, but your tools and data can be published in a form that others can immediately use. By the time you complete your PhD and look for full-time employment, you may have thousands using your simulation tool(s) for research and education. This certainly helps with interviews in industry as well as academia.

For faculty, usage data on your nanoHUB publications can help you demonstrate accomplished impact and a proven, realistic outreach program for your research and/or education efforts. Then, writing nanoHUB into your proposals for future work lends an uncommon strength to your claim to have a credible outreach plan. Also for faculty, nanoHUB can make a tremendous addition to your classes.

Contributing an online presentation, a downloadable item, or an animation to nanoHUB is simple and automated. Developing and deploying a tool is a little bit more complicated, but our 160+ existing tools are proof that it is not that hard to do. People with a variety of skill levels have made all types on contributions to nanoHUB. For example, the Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN) has had summer undergraduate researchers create graphical user interfaces for simulation tools (e.g., Matteo Mannino, Xufeng Wang), graduate students deploy their Ph.D. work (e.g., Neophytos Neophytou), post-docs and research faculty upload larger scale research codes (e.g., Shaikh Ahmed, Mathieu Luisier), faculty publish their research codes (e.g., Ashraful Alam, John Shumway), and faculty publish their classes (e.g., Supriyo Datta, Vladimir Shalaev).

Simulation tool authors can host only their executable on nanoHUB or release the code as open source. For "and more" content authors we suggest publishing using the Creative Commons license.

So, start to share and publish on nanoHUB! You can always do this through the "Resources => Upload", or follow the shortcuts below. Once you have started a contribution, you can interrupt your work and pick it back up inside "My HUB."