Scholarly Communication

Promoting faculty scholarship to a global audience by creating a more sustainable and equitable academic publishing system.

The Trinity College Digital Repository is 10 Years Old! Celebrating faculty scholarship by the numbers:

Why Open Access?

Open Access (OA) is a common end goal among academic publishing stakeholders for good reason. And, the benefits for Trinity College’s participation in Open Access publishing are significant:

• OA works are more easily discoverable and cited more often, which raises the visibility of Trinity scholarship.
• Ensuring that Trinity research is widely accessible fits with Trinity’s focus on global engagement and commitment to equity.
• Our collective investment in sustainable academic publishing models today will ensure that tomorrow’s generation of Trinity students will continue to have access to the information they need. 
• Open Access allows faculty to connect and collaborate with their colleagues more quickly and easily, increasing their effectiveness and scholarly impact. 

How to publish work as Open Access and unlock your scholarship

New! Trinity’s Library supports Open Access publishing initiatives in a variety of ways. We also subscribe to some publishers that will waive the APC for Trinity Authors. Find out more. 

A few ways to help ensure your scholarship reaches the widest audience:

• Publish your work in the journal of your choice, but deposit a post-print (author’s manuscript) copy in the Trinity College Digital Repository, which provides free web access beyond Trinity. Many journal publishers allow authors to upload a post-peer review manuscript copy of an article to their institution’s repository. Colleges and universities that have passed Open Access “policies” or “resolutions” typically promote this method of Open Access publishing. You can look up your publisher’s policies by searching the Sherpa/Romeo database.  then submit your work directly to the Digital Repository.
• Submit the work to an Open Access journal (Gold OA). Often, you will need to pay an article processing charge (APC) to publish the article, but sometimes the journal is independently funded by an academic society or several institutions so there is no cost to authors or subscribers. Use the Sherpa/Romeo database or the Directory of Open Access Journals to find reputable, peer-reviewed Open-Access publishers for your discipline.
• Submit the work to a hybrid journal. Many journals from the big publishers are hybrid, in that content within journal volumes can be either paywalled or open depending on whether authors have paid an APC. 
• Negotiate with your journal or monograph  publisher upfront to retain your copyrights. Read more about this from SPARC and use their Author Addendum with publishers.

Learn more

Here are some suggested readings on Open Access and some of the inherent equity issues in the financial models currently in use, particularly the author-pays model:

• An Introduction to Open Access (2019)
• Transformative Agreements, Funders, and the Publishing Ecosystem: A lack of Focus on Equity (2020)
• Equity concerns persist over open-access publishing (2021)

Faculty publications recently added to the Digital Repository

Trinity’s Institutional Repository is a digital archive that showcases and provides access to scholarly and creative works by Trinity College community members. Works in the Repository are open to anyone on or off campus, resulting in increased readership and visibility.

• Online appendix for “Studying the interplay of party support and turnout; Chapter 5 in The Problem of Governing: essays for Richard Rose edited by Michael Keating, Ian McAllister, Edward Page and Guy Peters. London: Palgrave Macmillan
  by Mark N. Franklin
• Frankenstein's Children: Artificial Intelligence and Human Value
  by Dan Lloyd
  Artificial Intelligence gives rise to unique ethical issues as humanity approaches the final extrapolation of a technology which simulates human cognitive processes in a fundamentally nonhuman medium. Simulation AI, taken to its limit, will produce conscious machines. I argue that computer consciousness is not science fiction, but rather that conscious machines are conceptually and, ultimately, […]
• What Is It Like to Be a Bot?: The world according to GPT-4
  by Dan Lloyd
  The recent explosion of Large Language Models (LLMs) has provoked lively debate about “emergent” properties of the models, mainly concerning their purported “sparks” of General Intelligence. Here, I examine another potentially emergent capacity, namely, consciousness. Using OpenAI’s GPT-4 as exemplar and interlocutor, I argue that the blanket dismissal of LLM sentience is unwarranted, and undermined […]
• Downtown Blues: A Skid Row Reader
  by Christina Heatherton
• Freedom Now! Struggles for the Human Right to Housing in LA and Beyond
  by Christina Heatherton et al.
• Traumatic brain injury screening and neuropsychological functioning in women who experience intimate partner violence
  by Sarah Raskin et al.
  Objective: The potential for traumatic brain injury (TBI) to occur as the result of intimate partner violence (IPV) has received increased interest in recent years. This study sought to investigate the possible occurrence of TBI in a group of women who survived IPV and to measure the specific profile of cognitive deficits using standardized neuropsychological […]
• How to Make Revolution
  by Christina Heatherton
  Christina Heatherton reflects on lessons from her new book, Arise! Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution (University of California Press, 2022) to describe how to avoid the traps of revolutionary nostalgia and engage in the collective process of making radical struggle.
• Measurement of prospective memory in Spanish speakers
  by Laura Cadavid et al.
  Introduction: This study aimed to provide preliminary evidence on the psychometric properties of a measure of prospective memory in Spanish speakers, the Memory for Intentions Test (MIST) Spanish translation. Methods: In addition, this study investigated whether acculturation influenced performance on the MIST. Finally, we measured other cognitive factors that might be impacting the relationship between […]
• Probability Distribution of SARS-Cov-2 (COVID) Infectivity Following Onset of Symptoms: Analysis from First Principles
  by Mark P. Silverman
  The phasing out of protective measures by governments and public health agencies, despite continued seriousness of the coronavirus pandemic, leaves individuals who are concerned for their health with two basic options over which they have control: 1) minimize risk of infection by being vaccinated and by wearing a face mask when appropriate, and 2) minimize […]
• Experimental Tests for Randomness of Quantum Decay Examined as a Markov Process [post-print]
  by Mark P. Silverman et al.
  The number of decays from four distinct nuclear disintegration processes were recorded over a long succession of counting intervals, converted into sequences of binary outcomes based on parity, and examined as a discrete two-state Markov process. The difference in single-step transition probabilities was found to be null to within an uncertainty of order 10−3, supporting […]