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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's annual report this year 
features a lengthy essay on the Foundation's initiatives in the
area of scholarly communications, by Donald J. Waters and Joseph
S. Meisel.
tagged scholarly_communication by walther ...and 2 other people ...on 29-JUL-08
tagged scholarly_communication by walther ...on 11-JUN-08

"A compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship, maintained by the OA community at large. By bringing many OA-related lists together in one place, OAD will make it easier for users, especially newcomers, to discover them and use them for reference. The easier they are to maintain and discover, the more effectively they can spread useful, accurate information about OA." Founded by Peter Suber and Robin Peek.

tagged open_access scholarly_communication by bmarcell ...on 28-MAY-08

This study explores faculty deposits in
institutional repositories (IR) within selected
disciplines and identifies the diverse navigational
paths to IR sites from library Web site
homepages. The statistical relationship between
the development of an IR and the presence of a
Web site dedicated to the reform of traditional
scholarly communication is also explored. The
implications for the development of institutional
repositories are highlighted.

tagged institutional_repository scholarly_communication by nrose ...on 27-MAY-08

NSF-funded project managed by Purdue. Simulation tools, presentations/classes, community.

tagged nanotechnology scholarly_communication tomalee by bmarcell ...on 19-MAY-08
From their homepage, " The Publishing Research Consortium is a group of associations and publishers, which supports global research into scholarly communication in order to enable evidence-based discussion. Our objective is to support work that is scientific and pro-scholarship. Overall, we aim to promote an understanding of the role of publishing and its impact on research and teaching." Publish whitepapers and other papers looking at peer review, open access, etc.
tagged industry_associations open_access scholarly_communication publishing by bmarcell ...on 24-MAR-08
Resources from the ARL/ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication.
tagged scholarly_communication by bmarcell ...on 19-NOV-07
University of Minnesota's Schol Comm wiki for librarians.
tagged academic_libraries scholarly_communication by bmarcell ...on 17-SEP-07
University of Minnesota's faculty-oriented schol comm site.
tagged academic_libraries scholarly_communication by bmarcell ...and 1 other person ...on 17-SEP-07
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine.
tagged copyright open_access scholarly_communication by bmarcell ...on 30-AUG-07
Results of a nationwide census of institutional repositories in U.S. academic institutions.

"A considerable portion of the scholarly record is born digital, and some scholarship is produced in digital formats that have no physical, in-the-hand counterparts. The proliferation of digital scholarship raises serious and pressing issues about how to organize, access, and preserve it in perpetuity. The response of academic institutions has been to build and deploy institutional repositories (IRs) to manage the digital scholarship their learning communities produce."

tagged institutional_repositories scholarly_communication by bmarcell ...on 07-MAY-07
An international partnership to build a large-scale public infrastructure for research information across Europe.
tagged europe scientific_research scholarly_communication repositories open_access by bmarcell ...on 08-JAN-07
Research report on purchasing preferences of librarians. Identifies key factors prompting substitution of OA materials for journal subscriptions.
tagged open_access scholarly_communication by bmarcell ...on 08-JAN-07

 Alexander, Bryan. "Web 2.0. A New Wave of Innovation For Teaching and Learning" EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 41, no. 2 (March/April 2006): 32–44.
pg 33
"The idea dates as far back as the 1960s and JCR Licklider’s thoughts on using networked computing to connect people in order to boost their knowledge and their ability to learn."
The new ways of using the web are about manipulation of content and participation by readers.
pg 34
Describes the importance of "microcontent" for users, who can move around the web. Microcontent is of course not new, and can be seen to go back to email messages, etc.
Tying the use of microcontent and user participation together with user-created metadata, such as tags and folksonomies. [With all of this microcontent out there to be manipulated, and all of these ways of manipulating it, users need to be able to tag the content with terms to help them retrieve them, as they can not count on remembering which bit of microcentent came from where, etc.]
pg 35 -end.
Introduces and describes delicious, mentioning people connecting to each other through metadata. mentions penntags and h20 and then moves on to wikis and writely.
moves on to blogs and rss, moves on to blog searching, technorati, memeorandom, etc. to digg, ohmynews. then onto sites that let users combine these, like gnosh and rollyo. Raises the question of how universities will deal with this: (Pg 42) "How will colleges and universities consider preserving such small pieces of intellectual work, especially as the works migrate across multiple, shifting, changing platforms?"
Then raises questions about copyright, etc.

tagged acrl research scholarly_communication by laallen ...on 04-JAN-07
Cronin,B . "Hyperauthorship: A postmodern perversion or evidence of a structural shift in scholarly communication practices?" Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology [1532-2882] 52.7 (2001). 558-569.
tagged acrl authorship collaboration publishing toread scholarly_communication by laallen ...on 03-JAN-07
Proceedings from the "Improving Access..." forum. Sessions on rights management and university publishing are particularly relevant.
tagged rights_management scholarly_communication by bmarcell ...on 01-DEC-06
University of California's Systemwide Library and Scholarly Information Advisory Committee (SLASIAC). Their work has included a resolution on scholarly communication
tagged california libraries scholarly_communication planning by bmarcell ...on 10-NOV-06
"The purpose of this website is for legal academics and others to share our copyright experiences with law journals and other legal publishers. As academics, we have an interest in ensuring the widest dissemination of our work. Historically, Law Journals have tended to use standard-form copyright agreements that reqire a copyright assignment, and have tended to impose unreasonable restrictions on our rights to share and re-use our own work."
tagged law_journals scholarly_communication open_access legal by laallen ...on 21-SEP-06
From the Center for Studies in Higher Education at the University of California at Berkeley. "The motivation for the project reported here was to assess the criteria by which faculty decide when and in what venues to publish or otherwise communicate the results of scholarly research."Add & Goto PennTags
tagged peer_review scholarly_communication by bmarcell ...on 18-SEP-06
Chapters from the book Open Access: Key Strategic, Technical and Economic Aspects (N. Jacobs, editor), Chandos Publishing: Oxford, 2006. Links available at eprints.org
tagged open_access scholarly_communication by bmarcell ...on 14-AUG-06
By Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Discusses what an IR is, and looks at the relationship between IRs and the open access movement.
tagged institutional_repositories scholarly_communication open_access by bmarcell ...on 15-JUN-06

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.
tagged copyright open_access scholarly_communication by mcedrone ...on 02-JUN-06
"The Office of Scholarly Communication facilitates internal partnerships among the UC libraries, faculty, and administration and, where appropriate, in concert with entities outside UC." Nice use of faculty champions/testimonials.
tagged open_access scholarly_communication university_of_california winning_independence by bmarcell ...on 10-MAY-06
Compiled and written by Peter Suber. Also includes function for searching the newsletters, the OA blog and other Suber writings on OA.
tagged open_access scholarly_communication sparc by bmarcell ...on 10-MAY-06
From their mission statement: " Project Euclid's mission is to advance scholarly communication in the field of theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics. Project Euclid is designed to address the unique needs of low-cost independent and society journals. Through a collaborative partnership arrangement, these publishers join forces and participate in an online presence with advanced functionality, without sacrificing their intellectual or economic independence or commitment to low subscription prices. Full-text searching, reference linking, interoperability through the Open Archives Initiative, and long-term retention of data are all important components of the project."
tagged cornell oai scholarly_publishing scholarly_communication by bmarcell ...on 08-MAY-06
Advocacy site for self-archive initiatives.
tagged open_access scholarly_communication by bmarcell ...on 08-MAY-06
The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography presents 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.Written by Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
tagged publishing scholarly_communication by bmarcell ...on 02-MAY-06
Troll Covey, Denise. . Acquiring copyright permission to digitize and provide open access to books / by Denise Troll Covey. [193364530X (alk. paper) ] Washington, DC : Digital Library Federation, Council on Library and Information Resources, c2005.
Call#: Van Pelt Library KF3024.M32 T76 2005


Crews, Kenneth D. . Copyright law for librarians and educators : creative strategies and practical solutions / Kenneth D. Crews ; with contributions from Dwayne K. Buttler ... [et al.]. [083890906X ] Chicago : American Library Association, 2006.
Call#: Engineering Library KF2995 .C74 2006


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.
Great article on copyright and open access with a catchy metaphor to LOTR. Written by John Ober of UC Office of Scholarly Communication, from C&RL News, April 2006.
PDF of Faculty Senate Statement in support of open access.
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.
Open access may take the form of posting traditionally published articles (in the author's final draft version) on the Web where they are available to everyone, publishing in one of the more than a thousand open access journals, or making scholarly material openly available in a variety of other ways. Several recent studies have demonstrated that, as suspected, peer-reviewed open access journals are cited more frequently than traditional journals.
tagged open_access winning_independence scholarly_communication by mcedrone ...on 03-APR-06
Cornell University Library scholary communication policy.
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.
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.

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

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."
"A multidisciplinary problem-centered group with a broad concern for all dimensions of contemporary scholarly communication. These include, but are not limited to, the economics of publishing, the evolution of scholarly disciplines and its effect on publishing, information policy, copyright, the interactions of academic reward systems and publishing, and new communication technologies and their potential for providing relief from the crisis in scholarly communication. Through speakers, discussion groups, sharing of literature and news notices, and an electronic bulletin board, the Working Group hopes to stimulate discussion on these issues and, it is hoped, to be a catalyst for papers on scholarly communication, grant proposals and collaborative research."
tagged scholarly_communication unc_ch winning_independence by bmarcell ...on 14-MAR-06
Rutgers' scholarly communication page. Good use of institutional and library strategic plans in explanation. 
tagged rutgers winning_independence scholarly_communication by bmarcell ...on 14-MAR-06
BC libraries' scholarly communications site with a mission to, "keep users informed of and to garner user input regarding developments in all aspects of scholarly communication."
tagged boston_college open_access scholarly_communication winning_independence by bmarcell ...on 14-MAR-06
"Dedicated to fostering open access to quality information in support of learning, scholarship, research and patient care."
"Provides commentary on open access, scholarly electronic publishing and digital culture issues."
tagged blogs electronic_publishing scholarly_communication scholarly_publishing open_access by bmarcell ...on 12-MAR-06
"Running list of research papers, editorial appointments, and other content and actions results in freely available scholarship by researchers at CalTech. Created by CalTech librarians.
tagged blogs caltech open_access scholarly_communication winning_independence by bmarcell ...on 12-MAR-06
"Reflects the efforts of the Scholarly Communication program to create new models for scholarly exchange that build on the widespread adoption of digital technologies and networking for research, teaching, and learning. At the same time, the program works to improve the traditional systems of scholarly exchange and improve the purchasing power of libraries and the terms and conditions under which content is made available. Thus, issues of copyright, intellectual property, journal costs, library budgets, and similar questions all affect the ability of research institutions to provide access to scholarly information.
tagged arl winning_independence scholarly_communication by bmarcell ...on 12-MAR-06
Cornell University Library scholarly communication website. "The purposes of this Web page are (a) to inform Cornell faculty of some of the key issues that drive the debates over scholarly communication, and (b) to suggest action that faculty might consider to support needed changes."
tagged cornell open_access winning_independence scholarly_communication by bmarcell ...and 1 other person ...on 12-MAR-06

"ALPSP serves, represents and strengthens the community of not-for-profit publishers, demonstrating their essential role in the future of international academic and professional communication."

tagged associations scholarly_communication scholarly_publishing by bmarcell ...on 02-MAR-06
"The University Research Magazine Association promotes excellence and professionalism among those who publish magazines written for the general public and special constituencies which are dedicated to the research and scholarly activities of a university, nonprofit research center or institute.  URMA's goals are to improve policies and procedures affecting the publication of research magazines and related materials; to develop training, documentation, and communication methods leading to the circulation of ideas and problem-solving techniques among URMA members; and to serve as a national forum and source of visibility for professionals working in this field."
tagged journals scholarly_communication university research magazines by jarson ...on 02-FEB-06
"The letter (PDF) was written by Theodore Bergstrom (University of California - Santa Barbara) and R. Preston McAfee (California Institute of Technology)."
tagged article journals library prices scholarly_communication by jarson ...on 03-NOV-05
"website that lists the price per article and the price per citation for about 5,000 academic journals. Using these statistics, we have constructed an index of costliness for each journal in each of several broadly defined disciplinary areas"...created by UCSB and CalTech...see this article http://www.hss.caltech.edu/%7Emcafee/Journal/OpenLetter.pdf
tagged database journals library prices scholarly_communication by jarson ...on 03-NOV-05