Scholarly Communication Services provides resources and expertise related to the dissemination and archiving of scholarly works. Our goal is to provide services and strategies that can help save our faculty, students, and staff time while increasing the reach of their research.
Scholarly Communication Services
Consultations available for
Author Rights
We can help explain publisher policies and copyright transfer agreements. You can consult with us in order to learn how to negotiate and retain rights to your work.
Copyright Assistance
We provide copyright assistance to UT faculty, students, staff, and researchers. We are available to answer your questions via email or in person by appointment. We are also available to give a presentation to your class or department.
If you would like to learn more about copyright, please visit our Copyright Crash Course.
Open Scholarship
The Libraries encourages open forms of scholarship that more widely disseminate the research and scholarship of the university. We can help you use UT repositories to share your research or help you find an open access publication to use. Contact us if you would like to discuss ways to improve access to your research.
Open Memberships and Author Benefits
The Libraries participate in several open access publishing initiatives. You can find more information regarding these initiatives, including our funding priorities, by visiting our Open Access LibGuide.
Some of the initiatives we fund include direct benefits to authors:
- Cambridge University Press: We have an agreement with Cambridge that allows all university authors to publish open access journal articles with no charge to the author.
- Luminos: 15% discount on the title publication fee.
- MDPI: 10% discount on APC.
- PeerJ: We’ve deposited money into an account with PeerJ. University authors can use those limited funds to pay their PeerJ APCs.
- PLOS Biology & PLOS Medicine: we are participating in the PLOS CAP program which means UT Austin corresponding authors won’t have to pay APCs for these two journals
- Portland Press: authors receive a discount on APC.
- Qualitative Data Repository (QDR): Our membership covers most curation deposit costs for university researchers.
Other open access memberships provide university support for more sustainable publishing models:
- Algebraic Combinatorics
- Ars Inveniendi Analytica
- arXiv
- Berghahn Open Anthro
- BioOne Complete
- CEU Press
- Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO)
- DataCite
- Demography
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- EngrXiv
- Environmental Humanities
- Global Press Archive
- HathiTrust
- History of Media Studies
- Journal of Librarianship & Scholarly Communication
- MIT Direct to Open
- Open Book Publishers
- Open Library of the Humanities
- ORCID
- PhilPapers
- Punctum Books
- Reveal Digital - Diversity & Dissent
- SciPost
- SCOAP3
- South Asia Open Archives (SAOA)
- Technical Reports Archive & Image Library (TRAIL)
- University of Michigan Press
If you have a specific question about one of these memberships or other open access publishing initiatives, please contact Colleen Lyon, Head of Scholarly Communications, or your subject liaison librarian.
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