Scholarly Communication

The DePaul University Library is an active participant and partner with faculty in building the future of scholarly communication.

DePaul Scholars 

DePaul Scholars is a public portal of researcher profiles and expertise across all disciplines. Use DePaul Scholars to combine your scholarly work, impact metrics, biographical information, and professional summary into one profile. You can make materials available for download, or link to your research posted in outside journals and databases. DePaul Scholars integrates with select research databases such as Science Direct, PubMed and Ebsco. Login or request an account, and follow the DePaul Scholars Guide to edit your profile.

Digital Commons@DePaul

Through its institutional repository, Digital Commons@DePaul (formerly Via Sapientiae), the DePaul University Library supports DePaul's goal of academic enhancement by collecting, organizing, and providing open access to scholarly works produced by the University's faculty, staff, centers and institutes, and students. The repository also showcases DePaul's unique Vincentian heritage materials.

Open Access Publishing Agreements

DePaul University Library has entered into a transformative agreement (also known as Read and Publish agreements or Open Access agreements), which enables DePaul faculty, students, and staff to publish their research as open access (OA) articles without the need to pay an article processing charge (APC).

To be eligible for the following agreement, authors must use their DePaul email when submitting the article. 

DePaul authors who have questions about transformative agreements are welcome to contact Scholarly Communications Librarian, Kelly Hallisy, for consultation.

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

DePaul authors can publish an unlimited number of OA articles for free in most hybrid or gold OA CUP journals. Input our institutional information into the Cambridge Eligibility Checker Tool to access the full list of journals where you can publish OA at no cost.

Open Educational Resources

Open educational resources (OERs) are educational materials available at no cost and include legal permission to freely use, share, and build upon the content. OERs give educators the ability to adapt instructional resources to the individual needs of their students, to ensure that resources are up-to-date, and ensure that cost is not a barrier to accessing high-quality, standards-aligned resources.

Please contact your liaison for more information on how you can incorporate open textbooks into your syllabus.

For more information about OER at DePaul, see our Research Guide on Open Educational Resources