Scholarly Communication and Information Policy (SCIP) offers support to students, faculty, and other researchers in the areas of:
- Copyright in research, publishing, and teaching
- Authors’ rights, and protecting and managing your intellectual property
- Scholarly publishing options and platforms
- Open access for scholarship and research data
- Affordable and open course content
- Tracking and increasing scholarly impact
Want help or more information?
We provide:
- Individualized support and personal consultations
- In-class and online instruction
- Presentations and workshops for small or large groups and classes
- Customized support and training for each department and discipline
- Online guidance and resources
We would like to thank Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, for their generous support in helping to make the work of our office possible.
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Understand how to use copyrighted materials in your research, publications, and teaching. Manage your own intellectual property rights as an author.
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Get help navigating the evolving scholarly publishing process — not only for your “final” manuscript, but also your other research and publishing outputs.
Copyright + publishing resources
Contact
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Timothy Vollmer
Scholarly Communication & Copyright Librarian
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Location
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189 Annex
Doe Library
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
Doe Library
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
This location is wheelchair accessible.