There are numerous steps involved in navigating the shoals of conducting research, avoiding predatory publishers, writing the article, collaborating with colleagues, ensuring copyright compliance, formatting it properly, and submitting it to quality publishers. Increasingly, responsibilities for engaging the research community, discussions of findings and conclusions online, and responses to comments on social media fall on the author. Changing requirements so that not only the text of an article but also the datasets are open, including being free to use, reuse, and redistribute, contributes to the issues facing researchers trying to effectively avoid scholarly publishing shipwrecks. Here to help are scholarly communication librarians (SCLs), whose job title is growing in importance. SCLs partner with researchers at each step in the scholarly publication lifecy-cle: creation, evaluation, publication, dissemination/access, preservation, and reuse, as illustrated by a graph on the University of Winnipeg's library website that explains the basics of scholarly communication (library.uwinnipeg.ca/scholar ly-communication/index.html).
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