The Health Sciences Library has many resources to support your writing and scholarly communication, defined by The Association of College and Research Libraries 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" (ACRL, 2003). This content includes formal publications like books and journal articles, theses, and grant proposals, as well conference presentations and posters. This guide will introduce you to resources on pertinent topics such as:

• copyright
• choosing a journal
• open access publishing
• preprints
• posters
• repositories, including Libra, UVA's repository
• ORCID
• Open Educational Resources
• NIH Public Access Policy

Please Ask Us if you have questions or if there are other topics you would like us to address.