Scholarly Communication Issues and Resources

Scholarly communication, the dissemination and use of knowledge, is changing due to the influences of public policy and technology. These changes affect how authors and publishers provide information and how scholars obtain information. This page provides resources that help clarify issues resulting from changes in both policy and technology.

The Challenge: Issues in Scholarly Communication
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/dspc/challenge.html

SPARC’s Author Rights Initiative
http://www.arl.org/sparc/author/index.shtml

Create Change
http://www.createchange.org/

What Can You Do?
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/dspc/response.html

Publishing Options
http://scholcomm.columbia.edu/publishing-options

Regain Control of Scholarly Communication
http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/

SPARC - The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Research Coalition
http://www.arl.org/sparc/

PLoS - Public LIbrary of Science
http://www.plos.org/faq.html

Other scholarly communication links:

2008 New NIH Public Access Policy Resources

News About Scholarly Communication

Open Access

Copyright links:

Intellectual Property, Copyright and Fair Use Resources

This page is maintained by Lorre Smith .

Last updated: June 3, 2009