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These resources support scholarly publishing by providing resources to assist you in determining your rights as an author, understanding copyright, evaluating journals and discovering potential dissemination outlets.




Author's Rights Tools


Sherpa
Wondering, Can I publish a pre-print or post-print copy of my article?  Search for the copyright policies by journal title or publisher to learn about permissions or restrictions

SPARC Resources for Authors
Practical guidance when submitting journal articles; help to negotiate author's rights and alternative publishing options

SPARC Template for author's rights negotiation

Creative Commons Licensing Guide
Share your work widely for more impact by licensing others to copy, distribute and/or transmit the work

Liblicense
Yale University website that addresses the increasing need to share information about common clauses in contracts used by libraries and publishers in negotiating access to information resources. Licenses dictate the appropriate use and authorized users of the licensed material and cover areas such as scholarly, research and educational use, commercial use, inclusion in course packs, sharing through interlibrary loan and the creation of derivative works. The Publisher's licenses page is a good starting point for determining what you can do with the electronic resource you've accessed through the Library's website.

Scholar's Copyright Addendum Engine

An online tool to simplify the process of choosing and implementing an addendum to retain scholarly rights; any author can fill in a form to generate and print a completed amendment that can be attached to a publisher's copyright agreement to retain rights to reuse and offer their works online.  The "Access-Reuse" addendum will ensure that authors not only retain the rights to reuse their own work and post them to online depositories, but also to grant a non-exclusive license, such as the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial license, to the public to reuse and distribute the work



Copyright Basics

PSU Copyright Website

The United States Copyright Office

Licensing, Patents, Educational and Professional Materials Development, and Copyright Policies and Procedures
Portland State University Office of Research and Sponsored Projects

Copyright, Intellectual Property Rights and Copyright Issues
Berkeley Digital Library

Copyright Crash Course
University of Texas

Copyright and Intellectual Property Resources, IFLANET



Journal Evaluation Tools

Journal Citation Reports
JCR, an Institute for Scientific Information database, is the most common tool used to determine journal impact factors

Eigenfactor Search Tool
Use this tool to learn the Article Influence (AI), a measure of a journal's prestige based on per article citations and comparable to Impact Factor and the Eigenfactor (EF), a measure of the overall value provided by all of the articles published in a given journal in a year

Journal Cost Effectiveness Search Tool
Use this search engine to find internationally-published journals and rank them by price per article or citation

Publish or Perish Tool (Download executable application.)
Use this tool to obtain detailed statistics (based on Google Scholar), including the total number of papers and citations, average number of citations per paper, citations per author, papers per author, and citations per year as well as Hirsch's h-index, Egghe's g-index, the contemporary h-index, the age-weighted citation rate, two variations of individual h-indices and an analysis of the number of authors per paper

SCImago Journal & Country Rank
Use this resource to evaluate journals contained in the Scopus database based on Google PageRank. Journals can be ranked by SJR, H Index, journal title, journal documents, total cites and cites per document. Countries can be sorted by total of published documents, document citations, cites per document and H Index



Publishing Outlets

Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
Locate newspapers, magazines and journals published in the United States and internationally. Ulrich's includes full text magazine reviews and allows advanced searching by discipline, limits such as "peer reviewed" or "electronic" and includes links to journal wesbites where you will find submission guidelines

Bibliography of PSU Resources


Quick Hits for Scholarly Communication
Scholarly communication in a nutshell

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