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Academic Integrity & Avoiding Plagiarism: Scholarly Communication

What is Scholarly Communication?

Scholarly Communication is: The system through which research and other scholarly writings are created, evaluated for quality, disseminated to the scholarly community, and preserved for future use.

Open Access

What is Open Access? Simply put open access offers access to content for free. Open access can be useful for your research but it is also something for you to think about as you create your own work.

There are two types of Open Access that you can use to make your work freely available

  1. Green OA refers to access provided through self-archiving, often with an institutional repository.
  2. Gold OA refers to access provided through publication in an open access forum, whether a journal or a monograph.

See some of the resources below for more information.

Scholarly Communication Process

Learn more

Scholarly Communication Toolkit  (ACLR Guide)
Scholarly Communications Introduction (UCD Library Guide)

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