Best Practices for Advancing Open Scholarship

Learn more about the Scholarly Communication, Copyright, and Publishing department here. If you have questions about open scholarship, please email us. We’re always happy to meet and discuss your thoughts and assist with relevant projects.

Further Reading

Introduction to Open Scholarship

• Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?
• Now is the Time to Update Our Understanding of Impact in Light of Open Scholarship

Advancing Equity through Access

• Advocating for Access: The Movement to Reduce Cost Barriers to Research
• Scholarly Communications and Social Justice

Review, Tenure, and Promotion

• Why we publish where we do: Faculty publishing values and their relationship to review, promotion and tenure expectation
• Rethinking Research Assessment for the Greater Good: Findings from the RPT Project

Public Mandates

• ‘A Historic Moment’: New Guidance Requires Federally Funded Research to Be Open Access
• Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation Letter to White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
• Declaration on Research Access (DORA)

News Articles

• White House Pushes Journals to Drop Paywalls on Publicly Funded Research
• The Problem with Making All Academic Research Free
• Is Open Access Worth the Cost?

Academic Articles

• Equity Transparency and Accountability
• Politics of Rights Retention