LibGuides: Scholarly Communication: Publishing Opportunities & Support

Your Scholarship, Your Rights

“Be a responsible steward of your intellectual property. Retain vital rights for you and your readers while authorizing publishing activities that benefit everyone by making scholarship more widely available.”

— Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)

What can authors do? Librarians are happy to help with the process!

Negotiate with the publishers to retain explicit ownership of your content (Author's 5 Basic Rights)
Transfer, via an author addendum, to the publisher only those rights needed for publication.
Specify other rights of particular value to you or your home institution
Consider publishing with an organization that will facilitate the widest dissemination of your work in order to help you fulfill your personal and professional goals as a scholar.

Author Rights Handout

OA Publication Venues for Scholarly Communications Topic Areas

Open Praxis
A peer-reviewed open access scholarly journal focusing on research and innovation in open, distance and flexible education. It is published by the International Council for Open and Distance Education - ICD.
Authors retain copyright, no APC.
Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication
JLSC is particularly interested in the intersection of librarianship and publishing and the resulting role of libraries in both content dissemination and content creation. Related areas of interest include new methods for the dissemination of information and information exchange; the theory and practice of the organization, use and curation of information; and issues related to the review, credentialing, reputation and impact of scholarly work.
Authors retain copyright, no APC.
The Idealis
The Idealis is a new kind of open access overlay journal, powered by PressForward and curated by librarian-experts working in the arena of scholarly communication. Each week, editors recruit the very best scholarly communication literature from across the Web, working with authors to make their research available, ensuring that librarians are connected to excellent research that’s relevant to their work
In the Library with a Lead Pipe

Publishing Discounts for UC Authors

Monographs and University Press Trends

New [2016] Digital Publishing Platforms Scholars Need to Know About

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAJ)