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RIGHT TO RESEARCH COALITION OPEN PUBLISHING GUIDE........ more

- a must read for anyone publishing academic work!

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Take a look at the Open Access Week Archives for information about the 2011, 2010 and 2009 activities.

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CENTRE FOR SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS: REPORT ON THE FIRST 14 MONTHS........ more

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The Centre for Scholarly Communication Mission Statement

The Centre for Scholarly Communication provides innovative solutions for the creation, evaluation, dissemination, and preservation of the research output of the academy. A priority for Libraries and Cultural Resources, the Centre enables scholars through:

• Sustainable electronic publishing using a variety of platforms
  • Open Access Publishing Fund
  • UofC Press books and journals
  • Hosted online journals using Open Journals System
  • Innovative and combined online/print publications
• Robust dissemination of digital collections in multiple formats
  • Text, image, audio, and video collections
  • Institutional Repository for scholarly material
  • Use statistics
• A platform for partnerships and discussion of trends and ideas
  • Copyright consultation
  • Proposing and developing new digital collections
  • Partnering to apply for digital collections grants
• Solutions for longer term preservation of digital collections
  • Licensed and original materials
  • Partnerships in preservation consortia
  • Synergies preservation solutions