Resources for more information
FAQ
The Create Change FAQ for Faculty is an excellent resource for formation about the crisis in scholarly communication.
Peter Suber's "Guide to the Open Access Movement" is a "guide to the terminology, acronyms, initiatives, standards, technologies, and players in the open-access or free online scholarship (FOS) movement".
Events
A symposium was held on April 7, 2003 to begin discussions about scholarly communication issues on the University of Kentucky campus. The symposium information site is still available using the link above.
Organizations
SPARC - The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, a worldwide alliance of research institutions, libraries and organizations that encourages competition in the scholarly communications market.
Create Change - A resource for faculty and librarian action to reclaim scholarly communication.
- Create Change search engine of high-priced journals
Creative Commons - Devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others to build upon and share.
Public Library of Science - The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.
Projects and Programs
Budapest Open Access Initiative - "... is at once a statement of principle, a statement of strategy, and a statement of commitment."
DSpace - DSpace is a groundbreaking digital library system to capture, store, index, preserve, and redistribute the intellectual output of a university’s research faculty in digital formats. Developed jointly by MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard (HP).
Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journal Publishing and its Implications - A project of the National Academies.
LOCKSS - LOCKSS creates low-cost, persistent digital "caches" of authoritative versions of http-delivered content.
Further Reading
ACRL, "Scholarly Communication", web resource, http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/scholarlycomm/scholarlycommunication.htm.
ARL Office of Scholarly Communication, "Principles for Emerging Systems of Scholarly Publishing", 2000.
Atkinson, Richard C., "A New World of Scholarly Communication", The Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 7, 2003.
Bailey, Charles W. Jr., "Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography", web resource, http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html.
Frankel, Mark S., “Seizing the Moment: Scientists' Authorship Rights in the Digital Age”, Report of a Study by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2002.
Free Software Foundation/GNU, "What Is Copyleft?", web resource, http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/copyleft.html.
Harnad, Stevan; Les Carr; Tim Brody and Charles Oppenheim, "Mandated online RAE CVs linked to university eprint archives: Enhancing UK research impact and assessment", Ariadne, April, 2003.
Kaufman, Paula, Scholarly Communication newsletter, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library.
Molinaro, Mary and Beth Kraemer "Scholarly Communication: Starting a Kentucky Dialog", Kentucky Libraries, 67(3), pp. 12-16, 2003.
Suber, Peter, "Open Access News: News from the open access movement", web resource, http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html.
Suber, Peter, “Scholarly Communication: Removing barriers to research: An introduction to open access for librarians”, C&RL News, 64(2), 2003.
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