This Scholarly Publishing & Communication web site is intended to inform faculty, students, administrators and librarians of the current issues, problems and opportunities in the scholarly information universe, and to suggest actions for consideration by all participants. You will find links to informative materials on the topics of author rights, copy rights, publishers archiving policies and copyright contracts, and innovations in scholarly publishing.

• The Library helps fund the Compact for Open Access Publishing.
• The Library offers faculty and student authors Dartmouth's publishing amendment, which helps authors retain more rights to their own material.
• The Library offers support to authors in negotiating publication contracts.
• The Library offers education and outreach programs, formal and informal, to individuals and departments about all aspects of scholarly publishing, including Open Access publishing, Author Rights and Copy Rights.
• The Library participates in Open Access Week

National Scholarly Publishing Resources:

• The Association for Research Libraries Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (ARL SPARC) is an excellent source of news and resources, including the Create Change website and the Resources page, which contains materials relating to repositories, open access and copyright issues. 
• For current news, background information, and sources on all aspects of Scholarly Communication, see the Scholarly Communication Toolkit at the Association of Academic and Research Libraries (ACRL) website.
• For information about the NIH Public Access Mandate see NIH material on Author Rights page.

Critical Issues and Resources

Author Rights: Tools and Resources for Scholars and Researchers

Copy Rights: Resources, Guides and Workshops

Open Access: Economics and Growth

Presentations on Economics, Access and New Models of Scholarly Publishing from the ACRL New England Chapter Scholarly Communication 101 Workshop July 23 2009