According to the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) of the American Library Association, "Scholarly communication can be defined as the system through which research and other scholarly writings are created, evaluated for quality, disseminated to the scholarly community, and preserved for future use." Scholarly Communications is a broad field that includes many categories, including copyright and intellectual property, scholarly impact/bibliometrics, open access, new publishing models, and new licensing models, to name a few.
The following books and ebooks are a representative sample of items in the collection of the University of South Alabama Libraries on copyright. For a complete listing, search via the Ebooks tab or the Southcat catalog on the homepage of the Biomedical Library. Access to our electronic resources is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff.