Publishing & Scholarship Support Center
(585) 475-7713
Hours: Monday - Friday 10a.m. - 4:00p.m.
Monday & Wednesday 4:00p.m. - 7:30p.m.
The Publishing & Scholarship Support Center (PSSC) provides RIT faculty, students, and other community members with a one-stop service for advice and assistance in preparing articles, books and other documents for publication. The Center offers help with scholarly editing practices, copyright queries, appropriate citation control, graduate thesis/dissertation binding, and ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database assistance. Publication technologies, such as self-publishing and posting materials in the DML (RIT's institutional repository) are offered to ensure that faculty and student research is available and circulated in the most meaningful and useful ways. The scholarly activity-based newsletter reports on RIT research and collaborative scholarship. These services are offered to provide reliable and timely assistance to support the effort of scholarship at RIT.
The Center is professionally staffed and has computers, software, reference books, and guides to assist with your scholarly communication needs.
Contents
- RIT's Digital Media Library
- Faculty Editing Services
- Open Access Journals & Conference Proceedings Published by RIT Libraries
- Graduate Student Support
- Self-Publish with Lulu.com: Print-on-Demand Support
- PSSC Presents
- Meet the Author Events
- RIT Faculty Scholars Series
- Scholarship@RIT Newsletters
- Scholarly Communications Tools
- Copyright Guides & Bibliographic Tools
- Citation Guides & Bibliographic Tools
- Writing Assistance Guides
- PSSC Referral Services
RIT's Digital Media Library (DML)
 FACULTY: Scholarship has become a significant priority for RIT faculty. New aspects of research and teaching are a larger part of faculty’s yearly plans of work. The Library has created an institutional repository using DSpace software to preserve and maintain RIT’s scholarship in perpetuity. All materials must be peer-reviewed. The peer review continuum encompasses a range such as faculty to faculty, faculty to student to a journal editor reviewing an article. Examples of materials included in the archive are preprints, post-prints, monographs, conference proceedings / presentations, reports / documentation, working papers, images, photos, and respective supporting data. Archive, showcase, and share your scholarship using this venue.
Why should I post and share my scholarly work in the RIT DML?
- RIT Faculty and student research can be located by using an easily searchable interface.
- Authors can showcase their work by emailing the item’s unique identifier url to colleagues, peers, and current or prospective employers.
- Asserts copyright ownership.
- Theses available online or deposited in institutional repositories are cited more frequently (336%) and hence, are more visible, accessible, and have greater scholarly impact.
- Allows authors to freely and perpetually link to their research output (the DML is committed to maintaining the archive in perpetuity).
- Examples of students’ work can be used by other students in preparation for writing their own theses/projects/dissertations.
STUDENTS: Student theses, graduate projects and doctoral dissertations are an under-utilized but significant source of primary research. The Library wants to maximize public open access to these important resources.
These items are needed to post a thesis/project/dissertation in the RIT DML:
- An electronic copy of the thesis/project/dissertation
- Email Nick Paulus at njpwml@rit.edu with the electronic copy or provide a copy on disk.
- Ideally, the e-version and the print version should be submitted simultaneously.
- Any accompanying files in other formats, such as Excel or PowerPoint files should be submitted at this time.
- Keywords
- Submit approximately five keywords to describe the document.
- Committee signature page
- Only include the printed names of the thesis/project/dissertation committee due to the risk of identity theft, no signatures please.
Additional Information on ETDs
Faculty Editing Services
An experienced editorial staff is available to edit your abstracts, articles, presentations, grant proposals and more. Minimum turnaround time is two full business days (large files may require more time). Editors use Track Changes in Microsoft Word and email the document back to the author.
All original papers and papers being reviewed for a second time should be submitted with a completed Editing Assistance Form (see below) to Nick Paulus at njpwml@rit.edu or print the completed form and bring it to the Center with your project that needs reviewing.
Quotes from RIT faculty who recently used our services:
Open Access Journals & Conference Proceedings Published by RIT Libraries
- International Workshop on Grid Computing Environments
These conference proceedings focus on aspects of portal, gateway, and tool development, including architecture design and standards studies, toolkits developed in support of grid portals and gateways, as well as grid middleware.
- Journal of Applied Science and Engineering Technology
Presenting the latest empirically-derived methodologies, analyses, and results, in engineering, technology, and the applied sciences.
- Multi: The RIT Journal of Plurality and Diversity in Design
Provides a multidisciplinary venue through which truly forward-looking, practical matters pertinent to design can be discussed and shared amongst design professionals with colleagues from those academic disciplines influenced and affected by advances in design and design technology.
Open Access Initiative – removes the barriers of toll access and provides open access to institutional scholarship, commonly referring to greater public availability for advancing the cause of sharing global scholarship.
Graduate Student Support
Writing Assistance Service for Graduate Students
Our experienced editing staff is available to offer writing assistance for your class papers, projects, thesis or dissertation. Minimum turnaround time is two full business days (large files may require more time).
Student papers can be reviewed a maximum of two times. If substantial additional content is added to a document, the new content will be considered for review at the discretion of the Publishing & Scholarship Support Services.
All original papers and those being reviewed for a second time should be electronically submitted with a completed Editing Assistance Form (see below) or print the completed form and bring it to the Center with your writing that needs reviewing.
Submit documents to or contact Nick Paulus at njpwml@rit.edu or (585) 475-7934 if you have questions concerning our writing assistance service.
Self-Publish with Lulu.com: Print-on-Demand Support
Showcase and sell your books (and e-books), portfolios, images/photos, music, CDs/DVDs, and calendars.
 Join RIT’s Lulu OpenBook@RIT community to highlight your self-published materials as an RIT community member. Once you publish an item in Lulu, join OpenBook@RIT by uploading your item’s ID number to be part of the RIT showcase.
PSSC Presents
Lulu and Published Book Celebrations
The Center regularly hosts special events to showcase authors and their respective books in the Publishing & Scholarship Support Center (PSSC).
Cyril Reade Mendelssohn to Mendelsohn:
Visual Case Studies of Jewish Life in
Berlin
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Journal of Applied Science & Engineering Technology has gone to press!
The PSSC hosted a launch celebration on October 11, 2007. Bound copies of JASET may be purchased online at Lulu.com, or by calling the RIT Press at (585) 475-6766.
Focal Encyclopedia of Photography
The PSSC hosted the reception/book signing for Michael Peres’ book, the Focal Encyclopedia of Photography. Approximately 100 people attended the party to talk with the author and browse through the 888 page book.
 
Photos by: A. Sue Weisler/RIT
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Coast to Coast
Members of the RIT cross country team that ran across the U.S. in November 2004, were present for a book signing event at the Publishing & Scholarship Support Center, on May 16, 2006. RIT President Albert Simone introduced the book. The Lulu-published book, Coast to Coast, is a compelling story written and illustrated by Ryan Pancoast about the team of eighteen RIT athletes and their transcontinental crossing. Books are available to purchase at: Lulu.com.
If you are interested in arranging an event, please contact us at (585) 475-7713.
Meet the Author
Join us as we salute RIT authors by featuring their works and giving the community an opportunity to meet and talk with them. Each event is held in the PSSC and the author will be available to meet, greet and talk with you. Please join us for the next informal “Meet the Author” session.
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Colette Shaw, Won't Get Fooled Again
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RIT Faculty Scholars Series
With an increased focus on scholarship at RIT, RIT Libraries will shine a light on some of the University's finest by sponsoring the "RIT Faculty Scholars" series. This ongoing series spotlights the scholarly work of a different faculty member for each showcase.
Scholarship@RIT Newsletter
During the academic year, the Newsletter covers and highlights four aspects of RIT scholarship: application, integration, discovery, and teaching at RIT. We are looking for activity that is new, interesting to the RIT Community, and that has not been showcased (in detail) in another venue.
Interested in contributing newsletter material? Contact Marianne Buehler at mabwml@rit.edu or (585) 475-5589.
Scholarly Communication Tools
Creative Commons licensing - provides free tools that allow authors, scientists, artists, and educators to easily mark their creative work with licensing freedoms.
Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) - an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system.
Understanding Author Rights (ACRL webcast)
Copyright / Plagiarism / Turnitin Services
Guidance, classes, and plagiarism-detection tools
- Copyright Information Center (Cornell University)
- Copyright Law & Graduate Research (for graduate students) ProQuest Information & Learning.
- Copyright & Plagiarism Comprehensive Resources (Wallace Library) - resources, tutorials, articles.
- Scholar’s Copyright Project (Science Commons) Scholar’s Copyright Addendum Engine assists authors to create a rights’ addendum.
- Faculty and Staff Guidelines for the Use of Copyrighted Materials at RIT
- Know Your Copy Rights (ACRL brochure)
- TurnitIn: FACULTY, have you tried the Turnitin.com plagiarism-detection service offered by the Wallace Library? Recognized worldwide as the standard in online plagiarism prevention, Turnitin helps educators and students take full advantage of the Internet's educational potential. Turnitin checks for originality and proper paraphrasing, citing, and the judicious use of quotes in student work, improves student writing and research skills, and saves valuable instructor time. The Wallace Library views this service as a tool to assist instructors in detecting and deterring plagiarism and having the ability to educate students on the proper use of intellectual property. Questions or account information is available at the Publishing & Scholarship Support Center (585) 475-7713 or contact Marianne Buehler at mabwml@rit.edu or (585) 475-5589.
Citation Guides & Bibliographic Tools
Bibliography / Citation / EndNote Web / NoodleBib assistance
PSSC staff is available to assist with citations and the use of bibliographic tools.
- Citation Guides
- Bibliographic Tools
- EndNote Web - a web-based service designed to help students and researchers organize their references for citing resources.
- NoodleBib - an online MLA and APA citation-builder.
- Word 2007 - automatically generate a bibliography based on the source information that you provide for in a document.
- Zotero Firefox - open source bibliographic database that works as a Firefox extension.
Writing Assistance Guides
PSSC Referral Services
Maintained by Marianne Buehler
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