Scholarly Communication - University at Buffalo Libraries

You want to publish, we want to help...

Scholarly publishing is undergoing fundamental transformations and the UB Libraries want to help you understand how these changes impact your scholarly endeavors. Here are some ways we may be able to assist:

Accurately measuring the the impact of your work: librarians are available to assist you with using Web of Science, Harzing's Publish or Perish/Google Scholar, altmetrics, and other resources to capture a more complete picture of the impact of your scholarly output.

Archiving your work: the UB Libraries can provide assistance with sustainable, long-term, online preservation of your work (articles, data, and other scholarly output).

Alternative publishing outlets: stay up-to-date on emerging and alternative publishing models like open access journals, e-books, open educational resources, and more.

Understanding copyright and author's rights: legislation regarding federally funded research, public access mandates, and data sharing requirements.

Presentations
Blogs

Presentations Scholarly Publishing: Presentations

Presentations

Scholarly Publishing: Presentations

Blogs Gobbledygook (Public Library of Science, Martin Fenner) Dr. Fenner has for many years worked as medical doctor and cancer researcher at the Hannover Medical School Cancer Center in Germany. In May 2012, he became the technical lead for the PLoS Article Level Metrics project. He writes about how the internet is changing scholarly communication. The Scholarly Kitchen (Society for Scholarly Publishing) Tag line is “What's Hot & What's Cooking in Scholarly Communications”. Generally provides a more conservative or publisher-flavored viewpoint. Peter Suber (SPARC) One of the most followed open access advocate/educator holding many concurrent positions including the Director of the Harvard Open Access Project and Senior Researcher at SPARC. Directory of Scholarly Communications Blogs [ACRL] This directory is part of the ACRL Scholarly Communications Toolkit. Some annotations here are based on descriptions in this directory. Open and Shut? (Richard Poynder) Steven Harnad has referred to Poynder as the "chronicler, conscience, and gadfly laureate" of the Open Access Movement. Scholarly Communications @ Duke: Duke’s Source for Advice about Copyright and Publications Issues (Kevin Smith, Duke University Libraries) A wide ranging examination of issues such as copyright, authors' rights, legislation, digital rights management, fair use, and open access, publication, institutional repositories, and new technologies. Open Access Now (Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions) Strong advocate for OA. Group-sourced news, policies, resources, and current writings about OA and scholarly communication.

Blogs

Gobbledygook (Public Library of Science, Martin Fenner)
Dr. Fenner has for many years worked as medical doctor and cancer researcher at the Hannover Medical School Cancer Center in Germany. In May 2012, he became the technical lead for the PLoS Article Level Metrics project. He writes about how the internet is changing scholarly communication.
The Scholarly Kitchen (Society for Scholarly Publishing)
Tag line is “What's Hot & What's Cooking in Scholarly Communications”. Generally provides a more conservative or publisher-flavored viewpoint.

Peter Suber (SPARC)
One of the most followed open access advocate/educator holding many concurrent positions including the Director of the Harvard Open Access Project and Senior Researcher at SPARC.

Directory of Scholarly Communications Blogs [ACRL]
This directory is part of the ACRL Scholarly Communications Toolkit. Some annotations here are based on descriptions in this directory.

Open and Shut? (Richard Poynder)
Steven Harnad has referred to Poynder as the "chronicler, conscience, and gadfly laureate" of the Open Access Movement.

Scholarly Communications @ Duke: Duke’s Source for Advice about Copyright and Publications Issues
(Kevin Smith, Duke University Libraries)
A wide ranging examination of issues such as copyright, authors' rights, legislation, digital rights management, fair use, and open access, publication, institutional repositories, and new technologies.

Open Access Now (Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions)
Strong advocate for OA. Group-sourced news, policies, resources, and current writings about OA and scholarly communication.