Scholarly communication is the system through which research and other scholarly writings are created, evaluated for quality, disseminated to the scholarly community, and preserved for future use. Initiatives that encourage the widest possible access to scholarly content include Open Access[?]Scholarly content made available free of charge to anyone upon publication., Open Archives[?]Scholarly content in subscription publications made available free of charge after an initial embargo period. and Open Repositories[?]Digital collections of scholarly content on a particular subject or the collected intellectual works of an institution or group of institutions..
- Retain Your Copyright
- Publish in Open Access Journals
- Deposit Your Work in a Repository
UMB Authors - Publisher Agreements - Know Your Options
This resource identifies Open Access (OA) articles published by UMB authors by using PubMed Central (an archive of freely accessible articles). It is updated monthly.
- NIH Public Access Policy implementation - Current details (SPARC)
- The NIH Public Access Policy (HS/HSL PowerPoint Presentation)
- Six things that researchers need to know about open access (Suber)
- Open Access News Blog (Suber)
- Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
If you have questions, please contact Jamie Blanck.
