Open Access & Scholarly Communications
CDS supports Brown University’s faculty and student scholarly communication and creative publishing endeavors in a variety of ways.
Open and Public Access Publications
With an open access publication, a reader has the author’s permission to freely access, make a copy, and redistribute the work online and, in some cases, even make a derivative of the work.
Brown’s mission statement includes a commitment to sharing knowledge with the world.
In CDS we realize that not all parts of the world can afford access to many of the articles and monographs written by scholars at Brown. We can help faculty and student authors with options for making a digital copy of their scholarly and creative works freely available.
These options include:
- Gold Open Access Helping to identify an open access publisher
- Green Open Access Making a version of their publication, a pre-peer review or post-peer reviewed, pre-publication manuscript available online
- Public Access Guiding deposit of a copy of their work in a funder’s publication database
Brown University authors can use the Brown Digital Repository (BDR) to self-disseminate a scholarly work or to deposit and share a copy of a Gold and/or Green open access work. We can also help you with selecting a license for helping readers understand what they have your permission to do with your work.
More information
Find Faculty Gold and Green Open Access Publications in Research@Brown
Find Student Gold and Green Open Access Publications
Open Access Publication Requirements of Public Federal Grants
The largest share of the financial support for research at Brown derives from federal grants funded by the public. Several federal granting agencies have developed their own databases to freely disseminate articles funded by the public. While public access articles have restrictions on their use by an individual, including redistributing the work online and production of derivative works, they can still be freely accessed and read by the public.
If your work was sponsored by public funds we can help you with depositing your article in a funder’s public access database.
Supported Applications
- Brown Digital Repository (BDR)The Brown Digital Repository (BDR) is Brown Library’s archive for preserving and platform for disseminating individual or collections of digital content online. Brown faculty and students can use the BDR to make their works available to the public or to the Brown community. Deposited objects are assigned their own catalog record with customized information describing the object and a unique URL. Users can request a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) that they and others can use to cite their works in a publication. In addition to making your work more discoverable, the BDR is an ideal long-term storage option because of its mission to preserve the integrity and access to deposited files. The BDR also provides an API for making stored content and structured data available through a website.
- Scalar
Born-Digital Publications
Publications can take many forms. While many are familiar with articles and monographs in either paper or PDF form, the web has extended the form and nature of scholarly communications.
If you need any help with these applications—or help with matching a tool to your needs—feel free contact us.
Projects
Contact
For inquires regarding open access and scholarly communications, please contact cds_info@brown.edu.
Andrew Creamer
Scientific Data Management
Crystal Brusch
Digital Publications Designer
Allison Levy
Director, Brown University Digital Publications