This is a listing of important and interesting articles, blogs, and webpages that discuss open access and copyright issues on campuses throughout the United States.

News and Updates on the Scholarly Communications Crisis, from the University of Minnesota Libraries

Nick Okrent's guide for undergraduates on copyright. It is available throught PORT.

Duke Law has published a graphic novel "Bound by Law" to discuss copyright and fair use. It uses documentary film making and clearance as its premise. Very interesting.

New economic experiments and new technologies are beginning to create a greater diversity of complementary -- not competing -- avenues for the dissemination of scholarly work. Institutional repositories such as KU ScholarWorks containing supplementary materials, working papers, and pre-prints extend the options for disseminating scholarly work beyond traditional publication of peer-reviewed articles and books. Open-access journals whose costs are covered through author-fees and other non-subscription revenue are emerging alongside traditional subscription-based journals.

Annual Library Journal issue with journal prices.

Peter Suber is the guru of Open Access, so much so that I believe he is no longer teaching but devoting his time to this lobbying for this issue.

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Scholarly Communication: Information about journal prices, copyright, open access, and more

Scholarly communication is the lifeblood of the university. The dissemination of knowledge is an imperative of land grant universities like Illinois. Anything that threatens access to, or the free flow of, research and ideas is a threat to the health of the entire system

Text of a lecture given by Paul Royster to Library Faculty at the University of Nebraska. Found in their Digital Commons database.

Scholarly journal content is increasingly available in electronic formats, but licenses for electronic content are typically much more expensive than print subscriptions--to account for a larger potential readership. Ease and convenience of use of this content is improved dramatically, but only for those whose libraries can afford to subscribe. Additionally, the terms of the licensing may be restricted.

Cornell University Library scholary communication policy.

UC is one of about 100 libraries joining the Open Content Alliance.

Title 17 in its entirerty.

This is the US Code17 Chapter 1 regarding SUBJECT MATTER AND SCOPE OF COPYRIGHT. Section 107, the fair use statement can be found within this chapter.

PDF of Faculty Senate Statement in support of open access.

Scholarly communication refers to the formal and informal processes by which the research and scholarship of faculty, researchers, and independent scholars are created, evaluated, edited, formatted, distributed, organized, made accessible, archived, used, and transformed. In recent years the concept of scholarly communication has also begun to connote faculty collaborating with publishers, librarians, and others, in solving the grievous problem of the inability of libraries to keep up with the ever-increasing volume and cost of scholarly resources.

From the dcpriniciples website. "As scholarly, not-for-profit publishers, we reaffirm our commitment to innovative and independent publishing practices and to promoting the wide dissemination of information in our journals. Not-for-profit scientific, technical, and medical publishers are an integral part of the broader scholarly communities supporting scientists, researchers, and clinicians. We work in partnership with scholarly communities to ensure that these communities are sustained and extended, science is advanced, research meets the highest standards, and patient care is enhanced with accurate and timely information."