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Scholarly Communications: The Office

One stop shop for scholarly publishing and communication practices within the academy.

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Davis Library

Room 131

919.843-3256

Subjects:Publishing & Copyright

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Featured Work

Southern Folklife Collection and Yep Roc Records logos

Dolly Parton's first single is a hidden gem in the Southern Folklife Collection ... The Office of Scholarly Communications advised on the contract for the unpublished recordings.

Photograph by Mose Tolliver

Read about Souls Grown Deep, a large collection of Southern outsider art, that was featured in the New Yorker. The Scholarly Communications Office consulted on this Southern Folklife Collection project.

image of Smithies at Nobel Prize banquet

Nobel Prize winner Oliver Smithies published his laboratory notebooks that documented his research at Oxford. The Scholarly Communications Office consulted on legal issues involved with publication.

Photograph of a 2010 cover of the Journal

Editors of journals, such as the Slavic and Eastern European Journal, often come to the Scholarly Communications Office with publication and copyright questions.

scene take from film shoot

Students also come to the Scholarly Communications Office with questions about their classroom projects, including film, music and more.

Scholarly Communications Office: Purpose

Scholarly Communications Office: Guidance

The Scholarly Communications Office provides guidance, policy development, and advocacy to faculty, students, and staff on the following issues:

Last Updated: Dec 7, 2020 10:36 AM
URL: https://guides.lib.unc.edu/scomm

Subjects: Information & Library Science, Law, Publishing & Copyright

Tags: author rights, copyright, creative commons licenses, fair use, library course reserves, MOOC, open access, scholaly communication, UNC Copyright Policy