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Additional Resources

Scholarly Communication

Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) commitment to scholarly communication.

Guédon, Jean-Claude. Beyond Core Journals and Licenses: The Paths to Reform Scientific Publishing (ARL Newsletter 218)

Guédon, Jean-Claude. In Oldenburg’s Long Shadow: Librarians, Research Scientists, Publishers, and the Control of Scientific Publishing

Modern Language Association. Call for Action on Problems in Scholarly Book Publishing

Modern Language Association. Ad Hoc Committee on the Future of Scholarly Publishing. The Future of Scholarly Publishing (PDF) .

Reshaping Scholarly Communications
This site hosted by the University of California Office of Scholarly Communications provides information about current issues and trends, UC responses and the potential for action. It includes a table showing the publisher, the list price, the impact factor, the number of online UC uses, and the average price increases for over 3,300 of the top scholarly journals.

"To publish and perish", published in Policy Perspectives, publication of the Pew Higher Education Roundtable and the Knight Collaborative.

Copyright Management

The American Association for the Advancement of Science. Seizing The Moment Scientists' Authorship Rights In The Digital Age. Prepared by Mark S. Frankel

Managing your Copyrights from Create Change

Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving

Serials Pricing

Association of Research Libraries. Monographic and Serials Costs in ARL libraries, 1986-2003.

Cornell 1998 report on prices of journals in agriculture and biology

EBSCO Serials Prices 2000-2004 with Projections for 2005

McCabe, Mark. “The Impact of Publisher Mergers on Journal Prices: An Update

Stickershock: The Rising Costs of Scientific Journals

Ted Bergstrom’s Journal Pricing Page

University of Wisconsin study on the prices of journals in physics, economics, and neurosciences

Alternative Publishing Options and Experiments

Bailey, Charles W., Jr. Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. Houston: University of Houston Libraries, 1996-2004

Create Change

Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)

Open Access

Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing

Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities

Budapest Open Access Initiative

Directory of Open Access Journals

Crow, Raym. The Case for Institutional Repositories

Open Access News

Peter Suber’s BBB definition of open access

Peter Suber's PowerPoint Presentation, March 17, 2005

Report of the CUL Task Force on Open Access Publishing Presented to the Cornell University Library Management Team August 9, 2004

SPARC. Repository Resources.

Washington D.C. Principles For Free Access to Science

 

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