Scholarly Communication: News and Resources

Handout from April 19th Library Scholarly Communication Forum


Dissertation Publishing Agreement

Alliance for Taxpayer Access: http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/
-"A diverse and growing alliance of organizations representing taxpayers, patients, physicians, researchers, and institutions that support open public access to taxpayer-funded research."

Association of Research Libraries: Scholarly Communication: http://www.arl.org/sc/index.shtml
-Excellent directory of resources, including reports, articles, and news items.

Budapest Open Access Initiative: http://www.soros.org/openaccess/

Cornell University Library: Transforming Scholarly Communication and Libraries: http://www.library.cornell.edu/scholarlycomm/index.html
-Overview of the situation, including information on Cornell's decision to cancel subscriptions to hundreds of Elsevier journals.

Create Change: http://www.createchange.org/
-Offers detailed information on the scholarly communication crisis, and explains ways in which librarians and teaching faculty can work to find solutions.

Declaring Independence: http://www.arl.org/sparc/di/
-A how to guide for scholars seeking to create low cost alternative journals, providing a valuable overview of alternative scholarly publishing efforts.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): http://www.doaj.org/
-February 2003 initiative launched by Lund University in Sweden, supported by SPARC and the Open Society Institute. Currently links to over 2500 free scholarly journals.

Frazier, Kenneth, "The Librarians' Dilemma", D-Lib Magazine 7 (3), March 2001: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march01/frazier/03frazier.html

Future E-Access to the Primary Literature: http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/index.html
-An electronic debate sponsored by Nature on the Public Library of Science proposal and the future of scientific journal publishing.

Harnad, Stevan, "For Whom the Gate Tolls: How and Why to Free the Refereed Research Literature Online Through Author/Institution Self-Archiving, Now", 2001: http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/resolution.htm
-Forcefully argues that universities should create electronic archives of all preprint and postprint articles written by their faculty.

Key Open Access Concepts: http://www.escholarlypub.com/oab/keyoaconcepts.htm
-Excellent overview of OA terms and definitions.

Know Your Copy Rights: http://www.knowyourcopyrights.org/resourcesfac/kycrbrochure.shtml
-Brochure from the Association of Research Libraries describing copyright for university faculty and teaching assistants.

Lawrence, Steve, "Online or Invisible", 2001: http://ivyspring.com/steveLawrence/SteveLawrence.htm
-Paper published in the journal Nature demonstrating that articles made freely available online are cited more heavily than other papers.

Open Access Bibliography: http://www.escholarlypub.com/oab/
-"(P)rovides an overview of open access concepts, and it presents over 1,300 selected English-language books, conference papers (including some digital video presentations), debates, editorials, e-prints, journal and magazine articles, news articles, technical reports, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding the open access movement's efforts to provide free access to and unfettered use of scholarly literature."

Open Access News: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html
-Current news and links to other resources.

Open Access Webliography: http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/oaw.htm
-Thorough annotated guide to OA web resources.

Public Knowledge Project: http://pkp.sfu.ca/
-Joint project of the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University designed to facilitate open access initiatives. Creator of the Open Journal Systems software.

Public Library of Science: http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org
-An initiative endorsed by over 20,000 scientists worldwide calling for the creation of a free electronic depository of all scientific journal literature more than six months old. Now publishes several open access journals, including PLOS Biology.

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html
-"(P)resents selected English-language articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. Most sources have been published between 1990 and the present; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 1990 are also included. Where possible, links are provided to sources that are freely available on the Internet." Created by Dr. Charles W. Bailey of the University of Houston.

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog: http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm
-Biweekly compilation of news items and relevant articles, from Dr. Charles W. Bailey of the University of Houston.

Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC): http://www.arl.org/sparc/
-"SPARC is a worldwide alliance of over 180 research institutions, libraries and organizations that encourages competition in the scholarly communications market. SPARC introduces new solutions to scientific journal publishing, facilitates the use of technology to expand access, and partners with publishers that bring top-quality, low-cost research to a greater audience. SPARC strives to return science to scientists." ECU has been a member of SPARC since 2001.

SPARC Open Access Newsletter: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/index.htm
-Monthly news update on OA resources and developments.

Ted Bergstrom's Journal Pricing Page: http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/~tedb/Journals/jpricing.html
-Articles, data, and analysis from the University of California Santa Barbara economist. Includes a copy of the September 2002 Morgan Stanley report on the scholarly publishing industry and its profitability (http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/~tedb/Journals/morganstanley.pdf).

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