Scholarly Communication at Purdue University

 

Scholarly communication is the process by which faculty members, students, researchers, and academics conduct their research, collect the information from that research into a publishable format (print or electronic), have their research reviewed, and distribute it. Various issues are associated with this process: the rising price of journal subscriptions; protecting and retaining author’s rights; use of alternative methods of publishing and the impact on tenure evaluation; and open access to research information.

This site includes information on the broad scholarly communication issues - author rights, journal pricing, and alternative modes of publishing - as well as information on specific initiatives, programs, and services at Purdue. These include how to comply with NIH's open access policy, updates on the Libraries materials budget, information for authors regarding the Google Book Project, and video from the Scholarly Communication Forum held at Purdue in May 2008.

Please explore the links to the left for more information on these issues and initiatives. For the latest scholarly communication news from Purdue, please visit or subscribe to our blog, http://scholarly.lib.purdue.edu/blog.