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Other Library Digital Imprints

Many academic and research libraries are experimenting with innovative publishing services 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 and other scholarly and creative work available online.

UT Scholarly Communication

Each year fewer scholarly publications are available to scholars. 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. The academic and research library community is committed to sharing scholarly communication for the common good. Libraries are becoming scholarly publishers. Universities are creating digital repositories of the intellectual work of their faculty and students. New models for scholarship are emerging. This rapidly changing environment is reflected in the major issues, associations, projects and visions that it inspires.

Intellectual Property

Intellectual property issues have always been complex for scholars, and have become more so in an environment where technology provides easy access to content. One of the reasons that commercial publishers have been able to charge outrageous prices for content is that faculty members have given them the copyrights (which they demand as a condition of accepting an article for publication.) There are many advantages for a publisher to own a copyright, yet the trust essential for making research benefit the common good requires that copyrights be managed responsibly. The links in this section provide connections to The University of Tennessee Libraries copyright information information for faculty and offer examples of license options and fair use statements that scholars are using today. A Newfound Press copyright statement is located on the verso of Goodness Gracious Miss Agnes: Patchwork of Country Living.