Publishing options

Identify appropriate publishing venues, including Open Access options such as UH Libraries’ Cougar ROAR and discipline-based repositories.

Understand Open Access publishing considerations, including "green" vs. "gold" open access models and discerning the quality and reputation of OA journals

See our guide on assessing journal quality for more information.

Schedule a consultation on identifying publishing venues.

Author rights

Schedule a consultation for help with:

• Managing the rights to journal articles, book chapters, and monographs
• Understanding copyright transfer agreements and how to negotiate with publishers to obtain the desired rights for publications
• Learning to regain control to rights to existing publications

For more information, see our guide on author rights.

Publishing and copyright

Our copyright team can answer questions on copyright issues for using and re-using research.

• Contact the Libraries copyright team with questions and concerns
• View our copyright research guide for more information

Deposit and share data sets

Share your research data with broader audiences on an open access platform with Cougar ROAR and other repositories.

For discipline-based repositories:

• Directory of Open Access Repositories
• Registry of Research Data Repositories

For more information, schedule a consultation.

Manage your research output

We can help with tracking your research impact and citation metrics.

Create and manage your research profiles and author identifiers, including ORCiD and Scopus Author ID.

To get started, view our guide on managing your research output.

Contact your subject librarian for additional help.