Scholarly communication is used to describe the lifecycle of scholarly works from creation, assessment, dissemination, impact, and preservation. The cycle of scholarly communication is traditionally understood as this:
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The Library can support authors and researchers throughout the entire scholarly communications process. To meet with the Research Services Librarian, use the Research Services Consultation form.
Authors are the inherent copyright holders of their work once it has been finalized into a fixed form, such as an article, unless governed by a larger copyright policy. Copyright is held by the creator of the work unless it is transferred. If an author is choosing to publish their work with a journal or other publisher, they enter into an agreement about how that work can be used or shared.
Understanding these agreements is essential for authors and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries has created an Authors Rights Guide to support authors throughout the publishing process.
Ownership and copyright at the College are dictated by the A10 – Intellectual Property and Copyright Policy.
Please contact the Library's Copyright Officer for more information.
If you are receiving Tri-Agency funding, you must make your work open access (OA). If you choose to publish your work with a traditional publisher that is not OA, be sure to review the publishers copyright policies and your agreement to ensure you are able to also make your work OA and maintain compliance with the Tri-Agency.
There are many things to consider when selecting publications and journals for research submission:
There are many ways to measure the effect your research has on your field or broader scholarly community, such as:
Metric Toolkit: A resource to understand the different ways to measure research impact.
With the increasing use of technology in publishing, the practice of assessing research impact has changed. The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment is one response to this changing environment and is calling for a new system to understand research impact.
Learn about the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (2023):
The Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) recognizes the need to improve the ways in which the outputs of scholarly research are evaluated. The declaration was developed in 2012 during the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology in San Francisco. It has become a worldwide initiative covering all scholarly disciplines and all key stakeholders including funders, publishers, professional societies, institutions, and researchers.
The Open Researcher and Contributor IDentifier (ORCID):
ORCID is an international, interdisciplinary, open, non-proprietary, and not-for-profit organization created by the research community for the benefit of all stakeholders, including you and the organizations that support the research ecosystem. We provide a persistent digital identifier (an ORCID iD) that distinguishes you from other researchers and a record that supports automatic links among all your professional activities.
The Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications developed Toolkits for Equity, addressing the inequity, racism, and systems of oppression within the scholarly communication system and community.
