Scholarly Publishing Issues
The Issues
CreateChange -
The Create Change Web site, a popular
resource on scholarly communication issues, has been updated
to provide faculty with current information,
perspectives, and tools that will enable them to play an active role
in advancing scholarly information exchange in the networked environment.
Framing
the Issue - from the Association of Research Libraries.
Detailed overview of the crisis in scholarly publishing and initiatives
for open-access.
Issues
in Scholarly Communication - from Cornell University Library.
Open Access Initiatives and Examples
SPARC –
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
"SPARC is an alliance of universities, research libraries, and
organizations built as a constructive response to market dysfunctions
in the scholarly communication system ...[that have] reduced dissemination
of scholarship and crippled libraries."
Public Library of Science
"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." Launched
its first open access journal, PLoS Biology, in October 2003.
Budapest Open Access
Initiative
"...an international effort to make research articles in all academic
fields freely available on the Internet."
PubMed Cental
U.S. National Library of Medicine's digital archive of life sciences
journal literature.
BioMed Central
"...an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate
free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research."
Directory of Open Access Journals
Searchable directory of "free, full text, quality controlled scientific
and scholarly journals." Currently includes 560 titles.
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