Scholarly Communication Program
About the Department
The UC Davis Library’s Scholarly Communication Program leads initiatives to improve the sustainability, accessibility, and reach of scholarship at UC Davis and beyond. We offer consultations, workshops, and support on a variety of common scholarly communication and publishing matters, including those outlined below.
Service Areas
Scholarly Publishing, with focus on Open Access
We provide information and support for various issues in relation (but not limited) to open access publishing such as:
- University of California’s transformative open access agreements
- University of California’s Open Access Policies
- University of California’s Publication Management System
- University of California’s repository eScholarship
- NIH Public Access Policy and PubMed Central (as well as other funder policies)
- other publishing related issues, such as selecting the best journal, avoiding predatory publishers, or publishing agreements
The UC Davis Library also offers incentives for open access publishing by providing funding via:
- Open Access Fund to support articles in full open access journals
- UC Davis Open Access Book Fund to support open access book publishing
Copyright
The Scholarly Communication officer is providing guidance in copyright related areas such as:
- Teaching (the use of copyrighted material for classroom and online instruction)
- Publications (the use of copyrighted material for articles, books, dissertations, websites etc.)
- Copyright ownership (ownership of material cerated by instructors, authors, students, or staff; UC Copyright Ownership Policies)
Scholarly Impact
In collaboration with other library departments we offer guidance for individuals, departments, or research groups to demonstrate their research impact through citation analysis and other metrics. For more details visit the Scholarly Impact Service page.
Previous Initiatives and Projects
Visit the archive of initiatives and projects, such as the Pay It Forward project.