THE ISSUES

THE RESPONSE

LINKS

KEY SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION RESOURCES ON THE WEB

NEW

Issues in Scholarly Communication : University Librarian Paula Kaufman maintains this newsletter/blog to keep the U of Illinois community apprised of the latest developments in scholarly communication.
Open Access News : Peter Suber's frequently updated news blog focuses, as the title suggests, on developments in the open access movement, but also covers other scholarly communication areas. Suber also puts out a monthly newsletter.

TAKING ACTION

Scholarly Communication Toolkit: This excellent resource from the Association of College and Research Libraries provides a concise overview of the issues. Problems are linked to direct actions that faculty, librarians, and universities can take.
Create Change: Like the Toolkit, this website aims to support faculty and librarian action in creating a better system of scholarly communication.

RESOURCES FOR AUTHORS

Directory of Open Access Journals : If you are interesting in submitting your work to an open access journal, you can use this directory to find titles in your field.
SHERPA : Use this database to check publishers' policies on author self-archiving of pre- and post-prints.

PUBLISHING ORGANIZATIONS

BioMed Central : Open access publisher of peer-reviewed biomedical research.
Public Library of Science (PLoS) : A leading open access publisher of peer-reviewed scientific journals.
SPARC : An organization that works to create and support low cost and open access scholarly journals.

COPYRIGHT ISSUES

Copyown : A resource on copyright ownership for the higher education community from the University of Maryland and the Association of Research Libraries.

SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION SITES AT OTHER UNIVERSITIES