How to Use This Guide
- Copyright Find out how copyright laws protect your rights as an author and how they affect the materials you use in the classroom.
- Author Rights Wondering what rights you have as an author? Looking for information on ownership issues before publishing your article? Check out this section to find answers to common questions about author rights.
- Open Access Find out how Open Access literature is changing the way we think about scholarly communication. Be sure to check out what Open Access publishing resources UMass provides for its scholars.
- Fair Use Worried about whether the material you use in the classroom violates copyright law? See our guide to Fair Use for information on educational and scholarly use of copyrighted materials.
- Resources A comprehensive list of resources provided in this LibGuide.
- History A quick guide to the history of scholarly communication initiatives at UMass Amherst.
Scholarly Communication
Scholarly communication is an umbrella term that describes the many ways in which scholars and researchers share their work:
- Publishing in print and electronic journals
- Archiving their work in digital repositories or on subject-specific websites
- Using email listserv mailing lists and online communities
- Creating new venues for dissemination, especially online
Currently, the field of scholarly communication is undergoing major changes, as open access and copyleft philosophies have begun to impact scholars' attitudes about sharing their work in a major way.
Create a Selected Works Page Today!
Selected Works pages are powerful hybrids of online CVs and personal academic websites. With a Selected Works page, you can list all of your published and unpublished manuscripts, presentations, datasets, and other scholarly material, as well as provide direct links to your work, so that others can download it instantly. Create your Selected Works page today!
Check out an example Selected Works page or browse a variety of other UMass Amherst scholars' sites.
Need help with creating or maintaining your page? Contact the ScholarWorks team and we will assist you.
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