Scholarly Communication Issues

Issues include:
  • High cost of journals
  • Archiving electronic journals
  • Intellectual property and licensing
  • Open access
  • Institutional repositories

Selected academic library web pages on this subject:
University of Virginia
Cornell University
Georgia State University
University of Tennessee
MIT
University of Connecticut
Boston College


Selected organizations:
Association of Research Libraries
Create Change
SPARC®, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
(UNH is a charter supporter of SPARC)
BioOne is a SPARC project
ATA, Alliance for Taxpayer Access
(UNH is a member of ATA)
ALA/Association of College and Research Libraries
Scholarly Communication Toolkit
LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe)
Creative Commons
Science Commons


Newsletters:
Scholarly Communication Issues
Open Access News (blog)


Open Access Publishers:
Public Library of Science
(UNH is a member)
BioMed Central
(UNH is a member)
Journal of Insect Science



Directory of Open Access Journals


NIH Public Access Policy information page


 

A service of the Biological Sciences Library, Kendall Hall, University of New Hampshire.

Comments, suggestions, and questions should be sent via email to dml2@cisunix.unh.edu .

 
Last updated September 9, 2006.

 
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