from the Graduate School

EPPIC provides workshops at University Park on popular topics in academic and professional communication in English. Examples include: writing abstracts, literature reviews, and effective poster presentation.

by Chris Mack. A free download from SPIE

- Lists federal agencies with public access plans, including links and brief descriptions

includes sections on copyright basics, faculty resources, student resources and a fair use checklist

Useful copyright information for everyone, not just grad students!

To help you understand plagiarism

Impact Factors, SCImago, Eigenfactor and Article Influence scores

-Select a category on the left and then select 'subcategories' to see detailed rankings of the top journals in a specific subject area.
-Or use the search box to find a journal or set of journals with a particular term in the title.
-Clicking on the h-index for any specific publication opens up a page with details on the articles and citations statistics constituting its h-core.

Find internal Penn State and external funding resources.

Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions

Visit this site for information about Penn State's open access policy, AC02. You can make your work open or get a waiver of the policy via this site.

In this guide you will find information about the open access movement. It also includes a list of discounts on open access publishing charges that are available to PSU authors.

Find out information about open access policies/options available from different publishers. Also has information on funder requirements and a "Funders and Authors Compliance Tool."

Find the best journal for your research. JournalGuide is a free tool that helps researchers evaluate scholarly journals.