Resources for Librarians
What can librarians do about the scholarly communication crisis? We can educate ourselves so we can better educate our faculty about copyright issues, the impact of the rising cost of serials and bundling resources, as well as alternative publishing options here at GA Tech and elsewhere. In addition, we can become aware of these issues as we consider what we are purchasing and offering access to our users. This area covers things to know about scholarly communication and open access to help in furthering our education.
Open Access Definition and History
Budapest Open Access Initiative
Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing
Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities
Open Access Movement, from the Association of Research Libraries
Key Open Access Concepts by Charles Bailey Jr., Assistant Dean for Digital Library Planning and Development, University of Houston Libraries
Peter
Suber provides a Timeline
of the Open Access Movement
Organizations
SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition. An initiative of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), this coalition of universities, research libraries and organizations focuses on creating broad and cost-effective access to peer-reviewed scholarship. An excellent starting point for information on open access.
ARL's Office of Scholarly Communication stays on top of current events in scholarly communication, providing information on open access, intellectual property and trends in scholarly communication.
Open Archives Initiative develops and promotes interoperability standards in order to make the dissemination of e-content efficient.
SHERPA (Securing a Hybrid
Environment for Research Preservation and Access) investigates digital preservation
of e-prints using the Open Archival Information System (OAIS). SHERPA also
hosts a listing of publisher policies (ROMEO)
on copyright and self-archiving. It is a good starting point for researchers
interested in particular publishers.
Handbooks, Manuals, Reports
ACRL Scholarly Communication Toolkit has information for Faculty, Researchers, Students, Administrators and Librarians.
Gaining Independence: A manual for planning the launch of a nonprofit electronic publishing venture by SPARC
Open Access Journal Business Guides by Budapest Open Access Initiative
Open access self-archiving: an author study by Swan, Alma and Sheridan Brown (2005).
Principles for Emerging Systems of Scholarly Publishing by Association of American Universities
New journal publishing models: an international survey of senior researchers, by Ian Rowlands and Dave Nicholas, is a CIBER report for the Publishers Association and the International Association of STM Publishers, 22 September 2005.
An Economic Analysis of Scientific Research Publishing, by the Wellcome Trust - a British non-governmental source of funds for biomedical research.
Open Access Directory (OAD), a compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship, maintained by the OA community at large.
Advocacy Materials
Declaring Independence by SPARC
Open Access for Librarians by Suber
An Open Letter to All University Presidents and Provosts Concerning Increasingly Expensive Journals by Theodore Bergstrom and R. Preston McAfee
Magazines, Journals, Newsletters and Blogs
Open Access Archivangelism Blog
Open Access News Blog
Listservs
American Scientist Open Access Forum
Bibliographies
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography by Charles Bailey
The Effect of Open Access and Downloads ('hits') on Citation Impact: A Bibliography of Studies by The Open Citation Project - Reference Linking and Citation Analysis for Open Archives
A Non-Exhaustive List of Resources About Open Access Publishing by Brian Simboli, Lehigh University