Welcome to the Scholarly Communication Toolkit
The purpose of this guide is to assist faculty, resident, & student researchers with publishing and maintaining records of scholarly works.
Copyright and Fair Use: A guide to copyright and determining what is fair use.
Author Rights: Learn about your rights as an author and ways to retain your rights when you publish.
Impact Metrics: Learn about journal impact factors and the rising use of article-level metrics.
Author Identifiers & Profiles: Learn about ORCiDs, and other tools to organize your scholarly outputs.
Open Access: Learn about making your papers and research freely available to others, and the advantages of doing so.
Open Data: Open data facilitates the visibility and re-use of data without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control. Learn more about freely sharing data.
NIH Mandate: The National Institutes of Health mandates that any published article that results from publicly funded research be made freely available online. Learn about how to comply.
Choosing a Journal: Learn about what to consider when choosing a journal to publish your manuscript.
ACPHS Research Commons: Learn how to display your work in the Research Commons.