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Scholarly Communication, Open Access, and Publishing: Scholarly Communication & Open Access Resources

This guide provides faculty, staff, and students information about the transformation in creating, distributing, providing access to, and preserving scholarly output within the academic community.

Why is Scholarly Communication Important?

· The ability to produce, distribute, provide access and preserve scholarly output within the academic community is changing.

· Costs are rising to acquire scholarly research produced by our faculties.


· Declining budgets and increased journal costs hamper the ability to acquire research created by faculty.

· Improved technologies exist to produce, distribute, access and preserve scholarly research at a sustainable level.

Open Access Explained

Why is Open Access Important?

·  Publishing in an open access journal or repository increases exposure to an institutions research activities.

·  Researchers are provided free and unrestricted full text access to a variety of scholarly materials.

·  Open access initiatives address funding mandates which require research to be publically available.