1. Increasing readership and citation of your research.
2. Controlling costs for libraries and readers.
3. Making your research available to the communities you study.
4. Enabling policymakers and other decision makers to act on your findings.
5. Making it easier for teachers to assign your work to their students.
6. Complying with funders' open and public access policies.
7. Keeping publicly funded research in public hands.
8. Ensuring that readers can readily print, copy, and otherwise reuse your work.
9. Taking advantage of the full power of the internet to share your results.

The Office of Scholarly Communications and Copyright provides education and services to the university community. Topics we can help with include:

• Copyright and fair use for research and teaching
• Author’s rights and publication agreements
• Open access and public access to research
• Creative Commons licenses
• Penn State’s Researcher Metadata Database

Contact us with your questions and requests for customized workshops for University groups or book an appointment with a member of our office.