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The Research Process & Your Unique Workflow

An introduction to the general practices of research and some tools to help as you work.

Sharing Your Work

Can You Share It?

You've written the paper, now what can you do with it? These tools will give you more information about your publisher's sharing/archiving policy and what you can and can't do with your work.


How open is the journal you're interested in reading or submitting to?

The "How Open Is It?" guide from PLOS and SPARC can help answer that question.


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Author Addenda

The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) is an alliance of academic and research libraries organized through the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). Their Author Resources page includes the Author Addendum as well as more information about copyright and open access as it relates to academic researchers. See PDFs below!

Another useful addendum tool is the Scholar's Copyright Addendum Engine, created by Creative Commons' Science Commons project. This site allows you to create a PDF personalized with the name of your article and the type of copyright agreement that applies, which differ mostly in terms of the embargo period preferred and ability of others to reuse your work.