Scholarly Communication Issues
Scholarly communications involve complex dynamics among intellectual property, the economics of publishing, technological developments, legislative action, and the academic culture for research, publication, promotion, and tenure. A number of factors, especially the increasing commercialization of scholarly publishing and dramatic increases in journal costs, have decreased scholars' access to essential research resources all over the world. Each year fewer scholarly publications are available to scholars worldwide. Universities are acquiring a smaller portion of available journals and monographs, even though the production of scholarly information is growing exponentially. Faculty members publish articles that universities buy back at premium prices.
Administrators, scholars and librarians are pursuing options for "reclaiming" the research produced in the academy. National information associations, scholarly societies, librarians, and researchers are experimenting with alternatives to make scholarly research easily accessible to scholars, their students, and to the world at large. Their efforts are resulting in the emergence of systems for collecting and disseminating peer-reviewed articles online and growth in personal web sites that contain faculty publications. Libraries are becoming scholarly publishers. Universities are creating digital repositories of the intellectual work of their faculty and students. The following links connect to associations, projects, and visions illustrative of sharing scholarly communication for the common good.
UT Scholarly Communication Committee
UT Blog: Scholarly Communication Issues @ the UT Libraries
Associations
Association of Research Libraries Office of Scholarly Communication
Council on Library
and Information Resources
Digital Library Federation
Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition
Raising Awareness
Changing
Scholarly Publishing: A Guide for Graduate Students (brochure)
Scholars
Under Siege: Changing our Scholarly Publishing Culture (brochure)
ARL
Brochures
The
Book & the Scholar: Celebrating
the Year of the University Press
Talking
Points for
Discussions with Faculty and Graduate Students
University of Tennessee Faculty Senate Scholarly Publishing
Resolution, May 1, 2006
Cornell
University Library Issues in Scholarly Communication
Scholarly
Communication: Academic Values and Sustainable Models (UC Berkeley
Center for Studies in Higher Education)
Libraries & Scholarly Communication (University of California Libraries)
Off the Page and Onto the Web...Essays on Scholarly Publishing @ UT
Scholarly
Communication (Boston College Libraries)
Scholarly
Publishing & The Common Good: Changing our Culture (University of
Tennessee symposium)
Intellectual Property
Copyright
Information for University of Tennessee Faculty
University
of Tennessee Office of the General Counsel
Know
Your Copyrights (Association of Research Libraries)New!
Creative
Commons Licenses
University
of Minnesota Copyright Information and Education
The
University of Texas Office of the General Counsel
North Carolina
State University Scholarly Communication Center
Open Access
Framing
the Issue: Open Access
Budapest
Open Access Initiative
Directory of Open Access Journals
Open Access News (Blog edited by Peter Suber)
Tools for Open Access Publishing
BOAI Open Access Journal Guides
Open Journal Systems (free software for journal management and publishing)
Proposals & Principles
Tempe Principles
(Principles for Emerging Systems of Scholarly Publishing)
Principles and Strategies for the Reform of Scholarly Communication
Scholars'
Forum: A New Model For Scholarly Communication
Economics of Scholarly Publishing
Reclaiming
What We Own: Expanding Competition in Scholarly Publishing
The
Economics of Scholarly Journal Publishing
Changing
Scholarly Monograph
The
Future of Scholarly Publishing (Modern Language Association)
Scholarly
Associations and the Economic Viability of Open Access Publishing
University Publishing in a Digital Age (Ithaka Report)
University Research Publishing or Distribution Strategies (David Shulenburger, NASULGC)
Institutional Repositories
DSpace (MIT)
New Models
for Scholarly Communication: The Knowledge Bank Project
at the Ohio State University
UT Digital Repository
Caltech Collection
of Open Digital Archives
Open Archives Initiative
SPARC Select
List of Institutional Repositories
Electronic Scholarly Publishing by Universities & Libraries
Project
Euclid (Cornell)
Digital Library
of the Commons
Digital Library Archives
(Virginia Tech University)
Berkeley
Electronic Press
BioMed
Central
BioOne
Highwire
Press
Newfound
Press
Parallel
Press
Rotunda
Press
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