Publishing & Sharing

We offer a variety of supports to help you navigate scholarly communication and open access publishing. Scholarly communication is a system through which research and other scholarly writings are created, evaluated, disseminated, and preserved for the scholarly community.

Learn how to navigate scholarly communication with our research guide.

University of Calgary faculty, staff, students, and Canadian researchers at institutions without a local repository or publishing hosting solution can use our services to create, preserve, and share scholarly outputs.

We offer the following service:

• PRISM: University of Calgary Digital Repository, including The Vault: Electronic Theses and Dissertations.
• PRISM Data: University of Calgary Data Repository
• Journal Hosting
• Open Education Alberta
• Web Archiving

Learn more about repositories and publishing.

Standing out in a crowded field of researchers is important in advancing your career. Consult with us to learn how to present a coherent picture of your research and its impact.

It’s the new CV - a strong online profile will help you with postgraduate, job, promotion, and tenure applications. It gives you a sense of the impact of your own work. Organizing all of this early in your career makes it much easier to keep on top of as you advance in your career and build your body of work.

Explore Measuring Research Impact

Open Access (OA) is the free, immediate, online availability of research publications coupled with the rights to use these materials with little or no restrictions in a digital environment. Why Open Access?

1. Academic authors can disseminate the results of their research more widely and increase the impact of their work.
2. Academic authors retain more control over their works, instead of signing all or most rights away to commercial publishers.
3. Results of taxpayer-funded research are more accessible to everyone.
4. An alternative to subscription-based scholarly journals, which have increased in price annually beyond the rate of inflation.

Learn how the University of Calgary library supports Open Access.