Navigating the current tension that exists between between scholars’ need to disseminate their works widely and the restrictions traditional scholarly publication can place on such dissemination is no easy matter. Luckily, many resources exist at Cornell and beyond to help both librarians and faculty make the right decisions, and to help the former advise the latter. This session will discuss not only the open access digital repositories available at Cornell, but also tools scholars can use to find and vet open access publishers, determine traditional publishers’ policies on open access repositories, and negotiate the retention of rights that otherwise might be signed away to those publishers. Successful scholars disseminate their works both within the traditional publishing sphere and beyond it; this workshop provides the resources to achieve that success.