Scholarly Communication is the complex system through which research and other scholarly writings are created, evaluated, and disseminated to the scholarly community.1 ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Libraries provides support in the following areas of scholarly communication. Please contact us for more information or with questions at scholarlycomm@case.edu
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Understanding Open Access (OA) and Open Scholarship
- . Learn more about Open Scholarship and Open Access practices and support.
- . Find information and resources on U.S. Government Agency requirements to make the results (i.e. scholarly articles, data, software, etc.) of federally funded research publicly available.
- . This guide provides information on the Faculty Open Access Policy passed March 25, 2024 by the Faculty Senate. Also, see the Faculty Handbook.
Sharing & Promoting Your Scholarship
- Submit your publications, including journal articles, chapters, books, conference papers, presentations, grey literature, etc., to our open access institutional repository:
- . Hosts the scholarly and creative content produced by ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ faculty, staff, and students.
- houses the scholarly work produced by ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ School of Law faculty, staff, and students.
- Host your OA research publication or event on Scholarly Commons. hosts campus journals, events, and other publications. If interested contact scholarlycomm@case.edu.
Scholarly Publishing Support
- . Learn more about the scholarly publishing industry and how to navigate the publishing process.
- . Learn about the opportunities available to freely publish open access through agreements with select publishers.
- ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Publishing Platforms:
- or for individual publications
- for journal hosting, event hosting or other publications.
References
1. "Principles and Strategies for the Reform of Scholarly Communication 1", Association of College & Research Libraries, September 1, 2006.
Frequently Asked Questions
ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ does not have an open access fund to cover the cost of article processing charges (APCs) for journal articles or book processing charges (BPCs) or to cover the cost of authoring tools.
ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ does have open access publishing agreements with select publishers that cover the cost of open access APCs for ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ authors. To learn more about these agreements and which publishers/journals are eligible, visit out.
To set up your ORCID profile or link an existing ORCID profile to ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½, follow these. To learn more about optimizing your ORCID profile, visit our or the.
No. While public access policies call for immediate sharing of research outputs upon publication, this does not require researchers to publish in OA journals or pay OA APCs to comply. If you do not wish to publish OA, you can still comply with these policies by depositing a version of your article in an agency-designated repository..
Note there is no charge for complying with public access policies. Any fees charged by a publisher are for publication in that journal, not compliance with your agency’s policy.
On March 25, 2024, the Faculty Senate approved this policy allowing all ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ faculty to post their scholarly articles in our open access repository,. Under the OA Policy, faculty grant the university permission to share the accepted version* of their scholarly articles for non-commercial purposes. While you are not required to deposit in the repository, we recommend depositing your scholarly articles to ensure the widest readership. To learn more, please visit the.
There are multiple ways to make your work OA with support from KSL:
- Deposit your articles, conference papers, grey literature, and more in our institutional repository,
- Deposit your data into the (OSF). See our .
- Publish OA. No cost options:
- ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Publishing Agreements. See the to learn more.
Non-APC Journals/Book Publishers. See for a list of journals and books publishers that do not have article processing charges (APCs).