General | Open Access | Author Rights/Copyright | Peer Review
Public Access to Research | New Models of Publishing | Journal Costs
Association of College & Research Libraries. ACRL Scholarly Communication Toolkit: Promoting a Shared System of Research and Scholarship. 2009.
Hahn, Karla. Talk About Talking About New Models of Scholarly Communication. The Journal of Electronic Publishing, 11 no. 1 (2008).
King, C. Judson, and Diane Harley, et al. Scholarly Communication: Academic Values and Sustainable Models. Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley. July 27, 2006. [Note especially the appendices.]
Nguyen, Thinh. “Open Doors and Open Minds: What Faculty Authors Can Do to Ensure Open Access to Their Work through Their Institution.” (April 2008).
Suber, Peter. The Open Access Mandate at Harvard. SPARC Open Access News 119 (March 2, 2008).
Van de Sompel, Herbert et. al. Rethinking scholarly communication: Building the system that scholars deserve. D-Lib Magazine. Vol. 10, no. 9. September 2004.
Definitions:
SPARC, Income models for Open Access: An overview of current practice, September 2009.
Author Rights / Managing Copyright:
Association of Research Libraries, Authors and Their Rights web page.
Bailey, Charles W. Authorʹs Rights, Tout de Suite. Digital Scholarship, 2008.
Copyright Basics, Copyright at the Univeristy of Michigan.
Copyright Crash Course, University of Texas Libraries, by Georgia Harper.
Copyright Management for Scholarship: Key Issues & Good Practices: Agreements is a checklist of points to consider when entering into publishing agreements, created by the Zwolle Group, an international working group on copyright in academe.
Carroll, Michael. “Complying with the National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy: Copyright Considerations and Options (Feb 2008).
Creative Commons - provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. Two videos that explain the CC philosophy: Get Creative, and A Shared Culture
Newman, Paul. "Copyright Essentials for Linguists." Language, Documentation & Conservation. Volume 1, Number 1 (June 2007).
Partnering on Copyright, JISC/SURF.
Recommended Readings, complied by Kevin Smith, Scholarly Communications @ Duke.
The Scholar’s Copyright Addendum Engine: this will help you generate a PDF form that you can attach to a journal publisher's copyright agreement to ensure that you retain certain rights.
Scholarly Communications Toolkit, complied by Kevin Smith, Scholarly Communications @ Duke. Includes sample letters, release forms, and licenses, and information on when you can digitize information to use in a course management system (TEACH ACT).
Seizing the Moment: Scientists' Authorship Rights in the Digital Age is a report, prepared by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, calling for authors to use their leverage to negotiate licensing agreements that maximize access to and dissemination of their work.
Suber, Peter. Balancing Author and Publisher Rights, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #110, June 2, 2007.
Smith, Kevin L. Managing Copyright for NIH Public Access: Strategies to Ensure Compliance. ARL: A Bimonthly Report no. 258 (June 2008).
University of Iowa's Author’s Addendum (pdf).
Willinsky, John. “Copyright,” in The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship. The MIT Press. 2005.
Jaschik, Scott. Abandoning Print, Not Peer Review, Inside Higher Ed (February 28, 2008)
Nature Peer Review: Debate,” Nature Web Focus
Suber, Peter. Will open access undermine peer review? SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #113, September 2, 2007.
Alliance for Taxpayer Access web site
Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Policy on Open Access to Research Outputs.
NIH Public Access Policy web site
NIH Public Access Policy Guide for Research Universities
Public Access to NIH Research, NPR's Science Friday, April 11, 2008 (interview with Harold Varmus)
SPARC Resources on Public Access to Research
Varmus, Harold. Progress toward Public Access to Science. PLoS Biology 6, no. 4 (April 8, 2008).
Ellison, Glenn.“Is Peer Review in Decline?. NBER Working Paper (National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2007)
Institute on the Future of the Book, if:book Blog
Lynch, Clifford. Shape of the Scientific Article in the Developing Cyberinfrastructure. CTWatch Quarterly 3, no. 3 (2007).
An Economic Analysis of Scientific Research Publishing: Published by the Wellcome Trust, this is one of the most comprehensive analyses of its kind. It concludes that the publishing of scientific research does not operate in the interests of scientists or the public good, but rather is dominated by a commercial market intent on improving its market position.
Ted Bergstrom's journal pricing page: Ted Bergstrom, Professor of Economics at UC Santa Barbara, maintains this web site about journal pricing.
Trends in Scholarly Journal Prices 2000-2006: This report describes research undertaken by LISU at Loughbrough University to investigate trends in the prices of biomedical and social science journals for eight commercial publishers and three university presses. [1.00 GPB = 2.00775 USD] (4/17/07)
Van Orsdel, Lee C. and Kathleen Born. Periodicals Price Survey 2008: Embracing Openness, Library Journal, April 15, 2008
References for Transforming Scholarly Communication web site:
ACRL Scholarly Communication Toolkit
Scholarly Publication -- MIT Libraries