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What is scholarly communication? In 2003, ACRL defined scholarly communication as "the system through which research and other scholarly writings are created, evaluated for quality, disseminated to the scholarly community, and preserved for future use." Scholarly communication experts play a crucial role in supporting the research lifecycle for the campus community.

Information Policy refers to all public laws, regulations and policies that moderate the creation, use, storage, access and communication of information. The librarians in the Scholarly Communication and Information Policy unit can help with understanding library policies related to using materials, open access, publishing support, copyright guidance, and journal selection.

Resources for Authors

Copyright Guidance
Discover how you can appropriately use copyrighted materials in your teaching, research and publications.
Choosing a Publisher
Are you not sure where to start when looking for a publisher? Start here and get practical tips on how to select a reputable publisher.
Open Access
Learn about Open Access at Yale, and how YUL is supporting Authors to publish open access.

Scholarly Publishing Reads

Scholarly Communication Librarianship and Open Knowledge
M. Bonn, J. Bolick, & W. Cross
We intend readers to see a political statement, a statement about the future to which we aspire and a statement in a challenge to the industrial, commercial, capitalistic tendencies encroaching on higher education. It is our hope that students, readers, educators, and adaptors of this resource will find and embrace these themes throughout the text and embody them in their work.
The Scholarly Communication Notebook
A repository of community-designed and curated open resources for teaching about scholarly communication and for doing scholarly communication work in libraries.
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries
This is a code of best practices in fair use devised specifically by and for the academic and research library community. It enhances the ability of librarians to rely on fair use by documenting the considered views of the library community about best practices in fair use, drawn from the actual practices and experience of the library community itself

Open Access by Peter Suber
ISBN: 9780262517638
Publication Date: 2012-07-20
A concise introduction to the basics of open access, describing what it is (and isn't) and showing that it is easy, fast, inexpensive, legal, and beneficial. The Internet lets us share perfect copies of our work with a worldwide audience at virtually no cost. We take advantage of this revolutionary opportunity when we make our work "open access": digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Open access is made possible by the Internet and copyright-holder consent, and many authors, musicians, filmmakers, and other creators who depend on royalties are understandably unwilling to give their consent.
Copyright and cultural Institutions by Peter B. Hirtle; Emily Hudson; Andrew T. Kenyon
ISBN: 9780935995107
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
The development of new digital technologies has led to fundamental changes in the ways that cultural institutions fulfill their public missions of access, preservation, research, and education. Many institutions are developing publicly-accessible websites in which users can visit online exhibitions, search collection databases, access images of collection items, and in some cases create their own digital content. Digitization, however, also raises the possibility of copyright infringement. It is imperative, therefore, that staff in libraries, archives, and museums have a good understanding of fundamental copyright principles and how institutional procedures can be affected by the law.