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.

What is the Scholarly Communication Crisis?
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/scc/scomm/what.html

Actions Faculty Members Can Take
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/scholarlycomm/scholarlycommunicationtoolkit/faculty/actnowfaculty/actnow.htm

Change and You
http://www.createchange.org/changeandyou.html

"Retaining Rights to Use Your Works: Copyright Challenges for Faculty"
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/scc/misc/language.html

Reserving Rights of Use in Works Submitted for Publication:
Negotiating Publishing Agreements
http://www.copyright.iupui.edu/nego_doc.htm

Reshaping Scholarly Communication
http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/

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

Create Change, a web site devoted to scholars and librarians
http://www.createchange.org/

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: April 2, 2008