Scholarly Communications Resource Guide

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Scholarly Communications

This resource guide includes resources related to scholarly communication. Scholarly communication pertains to the creation, transformation, dissemination and preservation of knowledge related to teaching, research and scholarly endeavors. Please contact the Guide Editor if you have any questions or comments. Page last updated 29 May 2008.

Guide Editor: Cathy Sarli

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Author Rights

Author Rights from Becker Library

Creative Commons--License Your Work

Scholar's Copyright Addendum Engine
The Scholar's Copyright Addendum Engine will help you generate a PDF form that you can attach to a journal publisher's copyright agreement to ensure that you retain certain rights.

Sherpa-Romeo
Use Sherpa-Romeo to locate publisher copyright transfer agreements including summaries of permissions.

SPARC Author Addendum

SPARC Brochure on Author Rights

SPARC Resources for Authors

Washington University Amendment to Publication
Use this form to request retaining copyright to your work.

Copyright

A Fair(y) Use Tale
Video presentation about copyright from Stanford University that includes bits and pieces from Disney films. (Requires a media player plugin such as Quicktime)

Copyright Resource Guide
Please refer to the Becker Library Copyright Resource Guide for a comprehensive listing of resources on copyright.

Digital Repositories

arXiv

Becker Medical Library DSpace

Computing Research Repository (CoRR)

Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR)

PubMed Central

Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)

NIH Public Access Policy

Alliance for Taxpayer Access

Becker Medical Library Services for Authors Wishing to Comply with the NIH Public Access Policy

Chronology of the NIH Public Access Policy

NIH Manuscript Submission System (NIHMS)

NIH Public Access Policy

NIH Public Access Policy FAQ

PubMed Central

Open Access

BioMed Central Summary of Funding Agency Policies on Open Access
Use BioMed Central's Summary to locate federal and private funding agencies that allow for grant funding support for article processing fees in open access journals.

Overview of Open Access

Open Access Publishers and Journals

BioMed Central

BioText Search Engine
BioText indexes all open access articles available at PubMed Central.

Directory of Open Access Journals

Library Publishing Media

PhysNet

Public Library of Science (PLoS)

Organizations

American Library Association

Association of Research Libraries

Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)

Create Change

Information Access Alliance

International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM)

Partnership for Research Integrity in Science & Medicine (PRISM)
PRISM was established by The Executive Council of the Professional & Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers.

SHERPA

Society for Scholarly Publishing

The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers

The Professional & Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers, Inc. (AAP)

The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)