The library’s Data Science and Open Scholarship Team helps 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.
Meet our scholarly communication experts
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.
We’re here to help
Navigating scholarly communication can be complex. Schedule a one-on-one consultation or group presentation, and check out our Help Center and research guides for how-to articles, tools, documentation, and FAQs on open access, publishing, and more.
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