Scholarly Communication Tools | Office of Scholarly Communication

Pending approval. Provisional guidance pending approval — not an official University policy until approved.

This directory is informational: links lead to each platform’s official website. There is no automated integration between this site and those platforms, and inclusion is not an endorsement.

ORCID

A persistent digital identifier for researchers that links their works and affiliations.

Use: Researcher identity
Intended audience: All researchers
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Crossref

A DOI registration agency for scholarly content and an open metadata source.

Use: DOI registration and metadata
Intended audience: Journals, publishers, researchers
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OpenAlex

An open catalogue of works, authors, institutions and journals that supports bibliometric analysis.

Use: Discovery and bibliometric analysis
Intended audience: Researchers and librarians
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OpenAIRE

A European infrastructure supporting open science that aggregates research outputs and open access policies.

Use: Discovery and open science support
Intended audience: Researchers and research administrators
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DOAJ

A directory of peer-reviewed open access journals, based on published inclusion criteria.

Use: Checking open access journals
Intended audience: Researchers and journal editors
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Creative Commons

An organisation providing standard licences that allow sharing and reuse under clear conditions.

Use: Choosing a licence
Intended audience: Authors and journals
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DSpace

Open-source software for building institutional digital repositories.

Use: Repository management
Intended audience: Librarians and technical administrators
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Open Journal Systems (OJS)

Open-source software to manage scholarly journals from submission to publication.

Use: Journal management and publishing
Intended audience: Journal editors
Last reviewed: —

Zotero

A free, open-source tool to collect, organise and cite references.

Use: Reference management and citation
Intended audience: Researchers and students
Last reviewed: —

DataCite

A DOI registration body for datasets, software and other research outputs.

Use: Persistent identifiers for data
Intended audience: Researchers and data repositories
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Google Scholar

A free academic search engine for discovering articles, with author profiles and citation counts.

Use: Discovery and author profile
Intended audience: All researchers
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Web of Science

A commercial citation and indexing platform (Clarivate) that requires an institutional subscription for full access.

Use: Indexing and bibliometric analysis
Intended audience: Researchers and research administration
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Scopus

A commercial abstract and citation database (Elsevier) that requires an institutional subscription for full access.

Use: Indexing and bibliometric analysis
Intended audience: Researchers and research administration
Last reviewed: —