Equipping the Imperial community to communicate and disseminate their research and academic work
Scholarly communication is the way academic research is created, published, evaluated, disseminated, discovered and preserved by the scholarly community.
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The Library's Scholarly Communications Management team can work with you through all stages of research from planning to publication and beyond. Ruth Harrison Head of Scholarly Communications Management (SCM)Imperial Library Leadership Team
Below, you can explore how the SCM team helps you develop the confidence and skills to manage your scholarly communication and engage with issues affecting it.
Open Research and Research Data Management
Open research
Open Research helps make research freely shareable and reusable. You can embed openness by conducting and communicating research in ways that enable transparency, equity, accessibility and reliability from the start of your project. You can get advice by contacting Dr Hamid Khan, Open Research Manager: Academic Engagement.
Research data management
Many funders now expect researchers to manage their research data to facilitate long-term preservation and reuse. To get advice and support about managing your data throughout the lifecycle of your research contact the RDM team at rdm-enquiries@imperial.ac.uk.
Copyright and funder open access policies
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Copyright and licensing
It’s important to have the right permissions before reusing content created by other people (third-party content) and to think about what permissions you want to give others to share and reuse your work. Book a one-to-one with Irene Barranco Garcia, Copyright and Scholarly Communications Librarian, if you have questions.
Funder open access policies
The Library has agreements with dozens of publishers, with most covering OA fees in full. We also administer OA funds from UKRI, Wellcome Trust, British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK and the Imperial OA Fund.
Open access and Spiral and bibliometrics and research assessment
Open access and Spiral
To comply with Imperial’s Research Publications Open Access Policy (RPOAP), accepted manuscripts must be deposited in Spiral via Symplectic. These will be openly available with a CC-BY licence for publishers notified of our policy.
Bibliometrics and research assessment
As a signatory to the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), Imperial is committed to moving beyond journal-based metrics in research assessment. We aim to recognise Open Research, collaboration, and public and policy impact. For advice on how to appropriately use metrics and access data relating to your research outputs, you can book a one-to-one with Yusuf Ozkan, Research Outputs Analyst.
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- Open Access Week 2022 (24-30 October 2022)
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