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 Publishing: Helping 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.
• Open Access: Helping you to find resources for free and make your papers, data, or other publications available to researchers around the globe.

For more info: Scholarly Communications service guide>