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Scholarly Communications

Describes the basics of what scholarly communications are, what services are offered to support scholarly communications, and links to resources to explore scholarly communications topics in depth.

TSU Libraries Scholarly Communication Services

Tennessee State University Libraries provides scholarly communications services to support a variety of issues relating to the process by which scholarly research and works are created, evaluated, disseminated, and preserved. These encompass such topics as:

  • Digital Scholarship @ Tennessee State University - TSU's open access institutional repository, a place to preserve and share faculty, student, and staff scholarly works.
  • Scholarly Communications and PublishingHelping you think through your many options to disseminate your research works to increase your scholarly impact and help your work reach a wider audience within your field.

  • Copyright – Helping you think through how to utilize copyright in your teaching and research, as well as how to consider the copyright for your own works.
  • Author Rights – Helping you understand your rights as a copyright owner, how you can retain your rights when publishing, and what you can do with your works when you have signed away the rights to your publisher.
  • Research Data Management Planning – Helping you to plan how to structure, organize, store, and share your research data to fulfill funder requirements.
  • Open Educational Resources – Helping you to utilize open access textbooks and resources to reduce the class costs for students and tailor your course materials of the course to your students.

Scholarly Communications Guides

Scholarly Communications for Research and Publishing

Scholarly Publishing

Data Management Planning

Scholarly Communications for Teaching

Copyright

Open Educational Resources

Streaming Videos

License and Attributions