How We Can Help
The Emory University Scholarly Communications Office offers a variety of services for Emory faculty, staff, and students. We also coordinate and support two open access repositories and offer funding to make Emory authors’ research available in eligible open access venues.
Our Services
We’re available to answer your questions about copyright, open access (OA) publishing, open education, and more.
- Copyright: We assist with questions on understanding fair use, using copyrighted materials in teaching, obtaining permissions for scholarly publications, identifying copyright holders, assessing author agreements and book contracts, and more.
- Open access: We provide expertise on all questions related to OA publishing, including a basic introduction to OA, finding OA content, understanding best practices for OA, openly sharing your research, and evaluating the quality of OA journals and publishers.
- Open educational practices: These practices center on engaging in open pedagogy and finding and using open educational resources, which are openly licensed learning materials that are free in digital format. Consult with us to learn more on these topics.
- Workshops: Each fall and spring, we offer a few sessions of "Copyright for Theses and Dissertations" to help students with copyright questions as they prepare to submit their capstone documents to the Emory Theses and Dissertations platform. In addition, specialized workshops tailored to a specific focus or topic are available by request. For more information, please contact the Scholarly Communications Office.
Open Access Repositories
Our office supports two OA repositories that preserve and provide access to the intellectual output of Emory University.
- Emory Theses and Dissertations (ETDs): We manage this platform, which is an OA repository of Emory alumni theses and dissertations. We assist with copyright issues pertaining to theses and dissertations, such as permissions and using previously copyrighted materials. Please contact us for more information.
- OpenEmory: Our team manages this OA repository of works by Emory scholars (faculty, staff, and students), including journal articles, books, book chapters, conference papers, posters, presentations, and reports. Please contact us for assistance submitting your work to OpenEmory.
Funding
Emory University Libraries' Open Access Publishing Fund provides funds for Emory authors who publish in eligible OA journals and books when no alternative funding is available. Current faculty, staff, and students who meet the eligibility criteria can apply for funds.
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The Scholarly Communications Office provides information about copyright, open access, and open education. The office does not provide legal advice. For legal advice, please consult the Office of General Counsel.
For questions about patents and the commercialization of intellectual property, please consult the Office of Technology Transfer.
Other Campus Offices Providing Related Support
The Scholarly Communications Office works closely with many other units on campus that provide related support.