LibrarySkills@UCL: Communicating and sharing information

Researchers need to be fully aware and participate in effective communication of research. These pages will help you to understand:

• Your digital researcher profile
• Open Access and Open Science
• Systems and technologies for professional communication with other researchers

While these sites include many useful resources that have been shared by their authors, there are occasional infringements of copyright and licensing agreements which we would remind you to be aware of before downloading or linking to content or uploading your own published research.

Most databases that index journal literature allow you to set up email alerts for new articles on a particular topic or in a particular journal. Many individual journals will also have an alerting facility on their website. Find out more on our guide to keeping up to date.

Preprints are draft or manuscript versions, of research works, often journal articles. Preprint repositories are useful for keeping up to date in your subject area because they provide access to preprint journal articles, working papers and datasets which may not yet have been formally published. Find out more on our guide to repositories: