Scholarly Communication
Publishing and Copyright
The process by which scholars and institutions create, disseminate, preserve, and use research results is commonly described as scholarly communication. Traditionally, information flows from scholars who create it, to publishers who disseminate it to libraries that preserve and provide access to it. New technologies have changed this paradigm and allowed for flexibility in how these activities are accomplished.
What Can Faculty Do: Quick Guide
Keep Your Author Rights
When publishing new articles, attach an addendum to publisher agreements so that you keep the rights to use and distribute your works.
Either SPARC’s Author Addendum in PDF or in Word Or the Science Commons Copyright Addendum Engine provide the materials you will need.
Read SPARC’s Author Rights material for more information.
Determine Copyright Ownership for Previously Published Works
Make sure you have the rights to re-use and re-distribute your own works in classes, in ScholarWorks, etc. without copyright infringement.
Use the SHERPA/RoMEO website to find a summary of permissions that are normally given as part of each publisher’s copyright agreement. You can re-use your materials (not publishers final copy) if the publisher has green or gold status.
To use the published version or if the publisher is not listed on the SHERPA/RoMEO site, write to the publisher using a permission request to the publisher.
Any conditions from the permissions agreement provided by the publisher must be honored.
Submit your works to Open Access Repositories or Journals
UMass Amherst’s open access repository is ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst.
See OpenDOAR for open access repositories and DOAJ for open access journals in your field.
Resources
Create Change
from the Association of Research Libraries. Has information faculty should know about controlling access to your work.
Scholarly Communication Toolkit for Faculty
from the Association of College and Research Libraries. Provides new ways to look at how research is disseminated.
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.
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.
OAIster from the University of Michigan.
History
University Library activities regarding scholarly communication topics
The University Libraries have been engaging the University community in scholarly communication issues for several years. The Director of Libraries has given presentations to multiple audiences. The University Libraries hosted several colloquia and later partnered with other Provost areas on a Digital Quadrangle series founded in 2006 when it was recognized that this is a campus-wide endeavor. The four partners, the Center for Teaching, Graduate School, Office of Research, and the University Libraries have hosted two colloquia to date.
Director's Presentation to Faculty Senate, March 2001
Director's Presentation to the Dean's Council, October 2004
The Scholarly Colloquium Series sponsored by the University Libraries:
October 2001 : We began the conversation by inviting Jean-Claude Guedon and David E. Shulenburger to speak to the dramatic increase in journal prices and to the new developments in scholarly communication such as BioOne.
October 2004 : “Freedom of Speech and Speech for Free: University Libraries, University Presses and the Law,”
featuring Peter J. Givler, Executive Director of the Association of American University Presses.
March 2005: “In the Public Interest: Expanding Access to Scholarly Research” with John Willinsky from the Public Knowledge Project and Jane Griffith from N.I.H.
September 2005: “ University E-Repositories: Solutions for the Scholarly Community” with Ann Wolpert, Director of Libraries at MIT and Nancy Fried Foster, Lead Anthropologist at the University of Rochester .
The Digital Quadrangle Series sponsored by the Center for Teaching, Graduate School, Office of Research, and the University Libraries:
