Services
Librarians and library staff members can help faculty, students, and staff understand and deal with copyright, publishing, intellectual property, and other related issues. Services include individual consultations, small-group workshops, and in-class presentations on a variety of topics.
Faculty | Campus Staff | Graduate/Undergraduate Students | Librarians/Library Staff
Faculty
Assistance is available with modifying author agreements to retain copyright, publishing in the UC eScholarship Repository, using copyrighted material in a publication or instruction, determining fair use or public domain status, creating an online journal, using a position on a journal's editorial board to influence the publisher's policies and pricing, and much more.
- Individual Consultations: To request a personalized consultation, please fill out the online form.
- Workshops and Symposia: The current small-group workshop schedule is posted on the Events page; some may be specifically focused on faculty, while others may be designed for a broader audience. To request a workshop on another subject, please fill out the online form.
- Class Presentations: Class presentations can engage undergraduate and graduate students on topics including basics of intellectual property and academic integrity. To schedule a presentation, please fill out the online form.
Campus Staff
Services help campus staff support faculty, departments, and programs in areas such as copyright, scholarly publishing options including open-access repositories, and compliance with open-access conditions of grants and external funding.
- Individual Consultations: To request a personalized consultation, please fill out the online form.
- Workshops: The current workshop schedule is posted on the Events page.
Graduate and Undergraduate Students
Graduate and undergraduate students can learn about copyright, intellectual property, and scholarly publishing and how they impact students' studies, research, and teaching. The goal is to help students during their studies at UCLA as well as throughout their future careers.
- Individual Consultations: To request a personalized consultation, please fill out the online form.
- Workshops and Symposia: The current small-group workshop schedule is posted on the Events page; some may be specifically designed for students. To request a workshop on another subject, please fill out the online form.
- Class Presentations (for grad students who are teaching): Class presentations can engage students on topics including basics of intellectual property and academic integrity. To schedule a presentation, please fill out the online form.
Librarians and Library Staff
Services to librarians and library staff keep them updated on issues related to scholarly communication, help them educate faculty and students in the areas they support, and assist them with responding to users' specific needs, such as modifying author agreements or identifying peer-reviewed, open-access publications in various subjects.
- Help with...: Scholarly communication staff can assist librarians with specific subjects of concern to the faculty and students they support. To request a consultation, please fill out the online form.
- Workshops: The current workshop schedule is posted on the Events page. Some are designed specifically for librarians and library staff, who are also invited to attend faculty, staff, and student sessions on a space-available basis.
