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Scholarly Communication  Tags: scholary_communication author_rights open_access communication  

The process by which scholars and institutions create, disseminate, preserve, and use research results is commonly described as scholarly communication.
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Resources on Scholarly Communication

Scholarly Communication

 

SPARC

The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition is an international alliance of academic and research libraries that work together to stimulate the emergence of new scholarly communication models that expand the dissemination of scholarly research.

 

Copyright

Crash Course in Copyright

Guide to copyright, fair use, and your rights as an author and/or user of copyrighted material.

Copyright Alliance's "Lesson Plans" for Educators  
A comprehensive list of different ways that educators on all levels can teach students about issues of copyright, created by proponents of current copyright and fair use laws.

Author's Rights

An educational initiative that informs faculty across all disciplines about how to secure your rights as authors of journal articles.

SHERPA

Based at the Consortium of Research Libraries in the British Isles, is developing open-access institutional repositories in a number of research universities on both sides of the Atlantic . They provide practical advice on depositing material, copyright and a guide to self-archiving.


Creative Commons engine for scholars that automatically generates addendums to attach to your publishing agreement, to help you maintain control over your own work.

Open Access

A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access  
An introduction to open access issues, written by one of the foremost experts on the subject, Peter Suber.

ScholarWorks @ UMass Amherst  
A digital repository for the research and scholarly output of members of the University of Massachusetts Amherst community. Supports open access journals, conference proceedings, and researchers' collected works pages.

NIH Public Access Policy Mandate LibGuide  
Information on the recent government mandate that requires researchers funded by NIH to submit their manuscripts to PubMed Central. Includes "how to" guide, information on author rights.

Create Change  
Information on how the changing nature of scholarship can affect you and your research and scholarship. Offers practical ways to look out for your own interests as a researcher.

OAIster

An international search engine for open access materials, brought to you by the University of Michigan.

 

Fair Use

Stanford University Library's Copyright & Fair Use Overview  
A comprehensive guide to copyright and fair use that includes general information on copyright and fair use in educational settings, key legal decisions, and answers to frequently asked questions.

"Free Culture" by Lawrence Lessig  
Proponent of "free culture," Lawrence Lessig, advocates for more liberal copyright and fair use laws in light of the Internet era in this eBook.

Crash Course in Copyright's "Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials"  
A practical guide to fair use of materials, given current copyright laws.
 

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