These resources support scholarly publishing by assisting 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. An easy-to-use License Chooser is available.
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
OUS Intellectual Property Policies and Guidelines
Portland State University Office of Research and Sponsored Projects
Copyright Crash Course
University of Texas
Copyright and Intellectual Property Resources, IFLANET
Journal Evaluation Tools
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
Evaluation of Scholarship
Tenure and Promotion
The landscape of scholarly communication has changed. Faculty evaluation is largely based on recognition of scholarship. Does the culture of faculty evaluation need to adapt to this changing landscape?
Modern Language Association Report on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion
U.C. Berkeley Center for the Study of Higher Education Report: Peer Review in Academic Promotion and Publishing: It's Meaning, Locus, and Future
University Press Angle
AAUP Statement on Open Access
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