Kate Dickson, JD, is the Copyright Librarian at Duke University Libraries where she serves as the subject specialist for copyright questions.
Paolo Mangiafico focuses on how new technologies can be adapted to further the knowledge-sharing mission of research universities. He was one of the leaders in the effort to adopt an open access policy for Duke scholarship and works on services supporting new models for scholarly publishing and archiving research data.
- Contact Kate or Paolo with your questions or to schedule a workshop or presentation. You can reach all of the team by e-mailing scholarworks@duke.edu
- Follow the Scholarly Communications @ Duke blog.
- Follow Paolo and Duke Open Access on Twitter for updates and analyses on issues related to scholarly communications and open access.
The Office of Copyright and Scholarly Communications assists the entire Duke community with copyright and legal issues, advocacy, and best practices for publishing and changes in scholarly communication related to emerging trends and new technologies. We maintain a website, scholarworks.duke.edu, to help duke researchers understand legal and technical options for sharing and using scholarship. We also work closely with Duke librarians on a number of specific projects, including digitization, project development, and risk assessment.
Copyright and Legal Consulting – We can answer questions about copyright and fair use, as well as address licensing, privacy, and other legal issues related to research and teaching.
Scholarship and Technology – We can help you to adapt and apply new technologies to further knowledge-sharing among researchers across the globe. We support the Duke Elements system, which facilitates managing publications for faculty profiles in Scholars@Duke, as well as uploading full text of those works for open access in the DukeSpace open access repository.
Outreach and Education – Our office engages with members of the Duke community to help foster better understanding of copyright and scholarly publishing. We can meet in groups or individually based on interest.
More about Scholarly Communication in Universities
Rapid technological changes during the past decade have made navigating scholarly communications more complex. As consumers of intellectual property, students and faculty have far more opportunities to use, modify and distribute the texts, images, sounds and video via the Web, online journals, and open access platforms. At the same time, copyright and privacy law restrictions and the growing diversity of new platforms make it more difficult for authors to maximize the reach of their original works. The study of scholarly communication explores how universities can best protect the ownership and integrity of an author's intellectual property while also sharing it in ways that are most beneficial to the author and the scholarly community.
See also this article in the Chronicle of Higher Education (or this freely available version if you are blocked by the Chronicle's paywall) for more about why universities have scholarly communications experts available to their communities, and what we do.