Manage your intellectual property

• Retain certain or all copyrights instead of signing it away.
• Maximizes the reach and impact of your work. Anyone anywhere in the world can read and cite you research.
• Enhance the profile of institutions, researchers, and research programs.

Use alternative forms of publishing

• Disseminate your work using open access platforms.
• Take advantage of managing your journal through the library's publishing platform.
• Enable appropriate access to published works, including primary data and educational resources.
• Quicker dissemination of scholarly information helps propel faster advancements in science and scholarship and equates to more effective research.

Support sustainable scholarly communication

•  Wield your influence with publishers.
•  Promulgate society publishing best practices.
•  Support publishing experiments and new business models.
•  Support development infrastructure components, including institutional repositories, which will facilitate open access to scholarly information.

Comply with federal funders' Public Access Mandate requirements

• Benefit by receiving more funding.
• Major research institutions support legislation to public access to publicly funded research.
• Increases returns on funders’ investments.

Use low-cost or free educational resources

•  Proven to help improve student retention and success.
•  Lowers the financial burden for students thus helping address the student debt problem.
•  Create your own educational resources or easily adapt/modify while innovating pedagogy.

The content of this page was written by Librarians at The Claremont Colleges.