Scholarly Communication (Archives)
Currents Archive
Previous links on current topics, actions, links, activities in scholarly communication- New introductory brochure on Open Access
- Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship, v.5 no.1 (Spring 2004)
The Next Step in Scholarly Communication: Is the Traditional Journal Dead?
- SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #74
June 2, 2004--"Elsevier permits postprint archiving."
- PNAS Introduces Open Access Publishing Option
May 24, 2004--"The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) now offers an open access publishing option. PNAS authors may opt to pay a $1000 surcharge to make their articles available for free via PNAS Online (www.pnas.org) and PubMed Central (www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov) immediately upon publication."
- Four Minnesota private colleges decline Science Direct renewal
May 2004--"Four Minnesota private colleges (Carleton, Gustavus Adolphus, Macalester, and St. Olaf) have independently decided to decline a three year renewal of Science Direct through our regional cooperative, MINITEX. Through a MINITEX subsidy of this e-journal bundle our schools enjoyed access to full text of over 700 e-journals for the past three years, but find we cannot justify renewal of this deal for another three years. "
- Thomson ISI Finds Open Access Journals Making an Impact
April 15, 2004--"Today, Thomson ISI, a business of The Thomson Corporation, announced that journals published in the new Open Access (OA) model are beginning to register impact in the world of scholarly research". Full Paper.
- Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN) to BioMed Central
April 4, 2004--A letter to BioMed Central stating TRLN's objections to their new pricing model for 2005
- Open Access Now
March 23, 2004-- "In December 2003, the UK's House of Commons Science & Technology Committee launched an inquiry into scientific publications to investigate pricing, access and availability issues. Written evidence was submitted to the inquiry in February 2004, and on March 1st 2004, the inquiry began to hear oral evidence". This is a collection of official inquiries, etc.
- Washington DC Principles for Free Access to Science
March 16, 2004--"Top Medical and Scientific Societies Commit to Providing Free Access to Medical and Scientific Research."
- 51 Liberal Arts College Libraries Back Open Access Publishing
March 15, 2004--"The movement for open access to scientific and medical literature gained important support today when 51 members of the Oberlin Group of Liberal Arts College Libraries announced that they have become institutional members of the Public Library of Science (PLoS)."
- The costs and benefits of library site licenses to academic journals
March 2, 2004--"Scientific publishing is rapidly shifting from a paper-based system to one of predominantly electronic distribution, in which universities purchase site licenses for online access to journal contents. Will these changes necessarily benefit the scientific community? By using basic microeconomics and elementary statistical theory, we address this question and find a surprising answer."
- [Stanford] Faculty Senate approves measure targeting for-profit journal publishers
February 24, 2004--"The senate last week approved a motion on a divided voice vote that encourages libraries to cancel some costly journal subscriptions and faculty to withhold articles and reviews from publishers who engage in questionable pricing practices. The motion singled out publishing giant Elsevier as deserving special attention..."
- Just Say No to Exploitative Publishers of Science Journals
February 20, 2004--"It used to be publish or perish. Now it is publish and perish. Academic science and medicine are drowning in a sea of publications. They have developed a journal-publishing culture that threatens to engulf them. Library budgets can't keep up. The peer-review system is overloaded. Researchers feel overwhelmed. Biologists at the University of California at San Francisco have called for a boycott of several popular Cell journals in response to overpricing by the British-Dutch conglomerate Reed Elsevier..."
- U. Conn. Faculty Senate Passes Resolution on Scholarly Publishing
February 10, 2004--"The University of Connecticut Faculty Senate yesterday passed a resolution calling on members of the university community to support scholarly publishing practices that promote the broadest possible dissemination of scholarly communication..."
- Journal of Algorithms editorial board resigns
February 09, 2004--"The editorial board of the Journal of Algorithms has resigned en masse, to protest what they call price-gouging by Elsevier, the company that publishes the journal..."
- Fac Sen discusses journal fees
February 06, 2004--"A “serials crisis” consumed the [Stanford] Faculty Senate yesterday afternoon as senate members debated a set of recommendations dealing with the high and rapidly increasing subscription costs for academic journals..."
- Biochemistry editor's inaugural address
January, 06, 2004--"While the ACS was an industry leader in developing electronic archives for its journals, it has yet to implement what the majority of scientists agree is in the best interest of science: a free, publicly accessible electronic archives policy..."
- College & Research Libraries News
January, 2003--"Electronic journal publication: A new library contribution to scholarly communication two years on"
- Harvard University Library: a Letter from Sidney Verba
Harvard is eliminating a number of journals published by Elsevier.
- MIT refuses multi-year deals with Elsevier and Wiley
December, 2003--"The MIT Libraries have recently taken steps to reduce the impact of two large commercial publishers on our ability to make responsible decisions in selecting information resources for use at MIT..."
- Cornell and Other University Libraries to Cancel Elsevier Titles
November 17, 2003--"Cornell University Library has posted a list of about 200 Elsevier journal titles it is canceling for 2004. Harvard University says it is preparing for similar cuts in its Elsevier subscriptions..."
- College & Research Libraries News
November, 2003--"Two years after the launch: An update on the BioOne electronic publishing initiative"
- The Scientist
October 23, 2003--"Researchers boycott Cell Press"
- The Journal of Cell Biology
June 3, 2003--"Proposed legislation supports an untested publishing model"
- The Gazette Online: The Newspaper of The Johns Hopkins University
May 5, 2003--"Announcement of web site to assist campus authors interested in alternative publication venues"
- Fedora Project
An Open-Source Digital Repository Management System
- The Wellcome Trust
An Economic Analysis of Scientific Research Publishing