Scholarly Communication

We help UCSF scholars navigate the changing landscapes of scholarly publishing, open access, and research output metrics. Our goal is to help UCSF students, faculty, and staff maximize the reach and impact of their work and understand their rights to use and share their work on scholarly communication platforms.

Getting Published

Evaluate journals and publishers and learn about preprints and other forms of scholarly communication.

Open Access Publishing

Get guidance on open access publishing options and find out what UCSF is doing to advance OA.

Research Impact Evaluation

Learn how to best manage your online scholarly identity, promote your work, and track the impact of your work.

Scholarly communication news

Need help accessing an Elsevier journal article? See the latest news on the situation.

Springer Nature open access publishing agreement launches January 4, 2021

Results of Elsevier poll on impact of loss of access to current articles

Meet our scholarly communication expert

Anneliese Taylor

Anneliese has over 15 years of experience working with UCSF faculty, staff, and students. She is an expert in scholarly publishing, professional profile systems, and research impact metrics. She focuses in particular on OA publishing and policies, and open science/open research initiatives.

What is scholarly communication?

Scholarly communication is the system through which research and scholarly writings are created, evaluated, disseminated, and preserved for future use. This includes peer-reviewed scholarly articles, books or chapters, and conference proceedings. It also includes continually emerging media, such as preprints, data publications, working papers, and blogs.