Welcome, Introduction, and Purpose

The NOAA Library has created this guide in order to provide a single resource for NOAA staff and grantees about publishing and scholarly communication topics. This guide will cover:

• NOAA mandates and policies for fundamental research communications
• Public Access Mandates and
• NOAA Institutional Repository

If you have specific questions about 

• Open Access Publishing
• Copyright and Authors Rights
• Article Processing Charges (APCs)

Please visit our corresponding Open Access Publishing Guide

According to the Association of Academic and Research Libraries, scholarly communication is 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. The system includes both formal means of communication, such as publication in peer-reviewed journals, and informal channels" such as social media and listservs. Frequently scholarly communications or scholarly publishing is represented as a lifecycle.