Publishing
Scholarly Publishing & Open Access
Scholarly Publishing is the system through which research results and other scholarly writings are created, evaluated for quality, disseminated to the scholarly community, and preserved for future use and the public good. The system is in a state of rapid flux and evolution, driven by new information technologies, low marginal costs of online distribution, and changing reader expectations.
Over the last decade, Scholarly Publishing has become an overarching term used to describe a suite of digital services and tools that support academic researchers and authors. Scholarly publishing also includes Open Access publishing, which refers to freely available, digital, online information. Open access scholarly literature is free of charge and often carries less restrictive copyright and licensing barriers than traditionally published works, for both the users and the authors.
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Publishing and Open Access Resources
Sharing & Publishing Your Work
Get support and explore tools to help you share your work with the world – whether it be traditional journal articles, theses and dissertations, monographs, or data and digital scholarship projects.
Copyright & Author Rights
Understand your rights as an author and consider how to include materials in your work for which you are not the copyright holder.
Open Access
Understand your grant obligations and navigate your options for sharing your work without paywalls, including how to evaluate open access journals for quality, what to do if you can’t afford an OA fee, and UW-specific policies and tools that support open access.
Citation Styles & Tools
Get help with citing a single source for your paper or managing a collection of citations.