ACRL
Roundtable
The Scholarly Communication Crisis: Setting an Agenda for Utah’s
Libraries
Resources
for Librarians
I. Powerpoint Presentation from the Conference
Powerpoint Presentation by Betty Rozum, USU
Powerpoint Presentation by Randy Ward, BYU
II. Cheap and Cheerful Ideas for Addressing the Crisis
Return to TopSticker Shock or Seeing Red Campaigns
III. Websites and Other Resources on Scholarly Communication
SPARC
http://www.arl.org/sparc/home/index.asp?page=0The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition site provides information on alternative scholarly communication strategies, including affordable or open access journals and institutional repositories.
Create Change
http://www.createchange.org/A resource for faculty and librarian action to reclaim scholarly communication.
Cornell University Library
http://www.library.cornell.edu/scholarlycomm/Summary of what Cornell University has done to address scholarly communication issues.
Price increases are not the problem
http://www.charlestonco.com/features.cfm?id=149&type=edMargaret Landesman's piece on the the "inflation" question
The Economics of scholarly journal publishing
http://octavia.zoology.washington.edu/publishing/intro.htmlA survey on the market of scholarly journals with a case study and analyses from the field of ecology
Online or Invisible
http://www.neci.nec.com/~lawrence/papers/online-nature01/Article by Steve Lawrence appeared in Nature (2001) analyzing the citation rate of online and off line articles. Articles freely available online are more highly cited, free online availability substantially increases a paper's impact.
Budapest Open Access Initiative
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/Aims to accelerate progress in the international effort to make research articles in all academic fields freely available on the Internet.
Self-Archiving FAQ
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/Answers to frequently asked questions about self archiving including what and how.