The UTHealth School of Public Health Library has created this guide in order to provide a resource for School of Public Health researchers about publishing and scholarly communication topics. It is a resource to raise awareness of author rights, copyright issues, institutional repositories, and considerations for open-access publishing. You will find general information on scholarly publishing considerations and links to resources on:
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) defines scholarly communication as "the system through which research and other scholarly writings are created, evaluated for quality, disseminated to the scholarly community, and preserved for future use. The system includes formal communication, such as publication in peer-reviewed journals, and informal channels, such as electronic listservs." Scholarly communication is frequently defined or depicted as a lifecycle documenting the steps involved in the creation, publication, dissemination, and discovery of a piece of academic research. However, it embodies the entire cycle of scholarship, from conducting research to managing data, and making decisions about publishing options, and copyright.
