SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION
Paper on Scholarly Communication.
Study the following sources on scholarly communication which will provide
broad-based information on the topic as it relates to libraries.
Drawing upon you reading, select a scholarly communication topic for your
paper. Research your topic using databases from Dialog, Firstsearch and
Wilsonweb, or other online databases of your choice. Select three
articles on your topic. Use these to write your paper. Use
'end notes', or 'references.' For each, article include a full citation,
annotation and name of database used to retrieve it. The paper should
be 3 pages, 12 pt. single spaced. Include a cover/title page.
Use sub-headings which should reflect your topic outline. Include
the fulltext of two of your selected articles.
From
Crisis to Reform: Scholarly Communication and the Tempe Principles
Current
Issues in Scholarly Communication
Electronic Scholarship
- Innovation for Scholarly Communication - see "Searchlight"
Resources
of Scholarly Societies - Communication & Media Studies
Scholarly
Communication Articles - ARL Bimonthly Report
Internet
Resources: Scholarly Communication
Introduction
Appropriate Technology for Digital Libraries by Thomas Baker
Intellectual
Property, Copyright and Scholarly Communication
HealthLinks:
Digital Dialog on... Scholarly Communication Issues in the Health Sciences
HealthLinks,
April 2000
Academic
libraries "Electronic access to information and its impact on scholarly
communication."
Dr Patricia MilneProgram Director, Library and Information Studies
University of Canberra
Policy Perspectives:
To Publish and Perish
Principles for
Emerging Systems of Scholarly Publishing
Free
at Last: The Future of Peer-Reviewed Journals
Building
and Indexing a Distributed Multimedia Presentation Archive Using SMIL
Reference
Linking for Journal Articles
Open
Linking in the Scholarly Information Environment Using the OpenURL Framework
Digital
Libraries and Autonomous Citation Indexing [Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles,
Kurt Bollacker; NEC Research Institute]
Digital libraries - a ceter piece of scholarly commu nication.
Report to the President, digital Libraries, Universal Access to Human
Knowledge.
http://www.itrd.gov/pubs/pitac/pitac-dl-9feb01.pdf
CLIR
Issues Number 4 What are Digital Libraries?
Scholarly
Communication The Use and Non-Use of E-Print Archives for the Dissemination
of Scientific Information, Ibironke Lawal, Engineering and Science Librarian,gVirginia
Commonwealth University.
Books Into Bytes, Scietific American. http://www.lesk.com/mlesk/sciam97/sciam97.html
Create Change
home http://www.createchange.org/home.html
A resource for faculty and librarian action to reclaim scholarly
communication.
Preservation
Risk Management for Web Resources: Virtual Remote Control in Cornell's
Project Prism
Book by Jeff Rothenberg - Avoiding
Technological Quicksand
Wired
9.10: Licensed to Bill
ContentGuard Inc., The Need for a Rights Language,, Technical White
Paper Version 1.0, 201.
http://www.xrml.org/reference/TheNeedForARightsLanguage.pdf
C. Lagoze and H. Van de Sompel, The Open Archives Initiative: Building
a low-barrier interoperability framework, presented at Joint Conference
on Digital Libraries, Roanoke, VA, 2001
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/lagoze/papers/oai-final.pdf
Lagoze, et. al, Core Services in the Architecture of the National Digital
Library for Science Edituation, January 2002,
http://arxiv.org/pdf/cs.DL/0201025
Research what has happened in the courts and Congress since this article
was writte,
Who
Will Own Your Next Good Idea? - 98.09
Who
Will Own Your Next Good Idea? (Part Two)
Who
Will Own Your Next Good Idea? (Part Three)
ISSUES IN
SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION http://www.lib.virginia.edu/scholcomm.html
"Several recent studies have concluded that the current system of scholarly
communication is in danger. Research libraries, along withtheir educational
institutions, are caught in a spiral of increasing output and steeply increasing
prices that has dramatically decreased their capacity to build comprehensive
collections. Intellectual property has become a commercial commodity for
whichinstitutions often pay twice: first to support faculty and students
conducting research, then again to buy the results of that research at
high prices from commercial entities."
NCSU Libraries Scholarly Communication Center
University
Libraries & Scholarly Communication: University Libraries and Scholarly
Communication: A Study Prepared for The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: by
Anthony M. Cummings, Marcia L. Witte, William G. Bowen, Laura O. Lazarus,
and Richard H. Ekman: Published by The Association of Research Libraries
for The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: November 1992 http://www.lib.virginia.edu/mellon/mellon.html
"Libraries are and will remain central to the management of scholarly
communication for the foreseeable future. Out of concern for the well being
of institutions vital to scholarship and science, The Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation set out to address two main issues in this study. *The explosion
in the quantity of desirable published material and a rapid escalation
of unit prices for those items jeopardizes the traditional research
library mission of creating and maintaining large self-sufficient collections
for their users. Issues of pricing, acquisition, and collection are the
focus of the study's sustained statistical analysis, which brings together
kinds of information not often, sometimes not ever, gathered in one place
before. *The rapid emergence and development of electronic information
technologies make it possible to envision radically different ways of organizing
collections and services the library has traditionally provided. Insofar
as the finances of collection development approach a crisis, the new technologies
offer possible mitigation and perhaps a revolution in ways of knowing."
UNC-CH Scholarly Communication
Working Group http://ils.unc.edu/schol-com/
"The Working Group on Scholarly Communication is a multidisciplinary
problem-centered group with a broad concern for all dimensions of contemporary
scholarly communication. These include, but are not limited to, the economics
of publishing, the evolution of scholarly disciplines an its effect on
publishing, information policy, copyright, the interactions of academic
reward systems and publishing, and new communication technologies and their
potential for providing relief from the crisis in scholarly communication.
Through speakers, discussion groups, sharing of literature and news notices,
and an electronic bulletin board, the Working Group hopes to stimulate
discussion on these issues and, it is hoped, to be a catalyst for papers
on scholarly communication, grant proposals and collaborative research."
Electronic
Journals and Legitimate Media in the Systems of Scholarly Communication
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~kling/klingej2.html
"While the number of electronic scholarly journals is growing steadily,
they have not yet been accepted as legitimate publication outlets by the
scholarly communities. This article examines how moving from paper to electronic
distribution alters the legitimacy and perceived quality of journals. It
also examines the prospects for creating diverse high quality electronic
journals in the next two decades."
Electronic
Journals
Electronic Journals: The Grand Information Future?
Mike Sosteric, Department of Global and Social Analysis, Athabasca
University
" This article examines the political economy of scholarly publication.
After briefly outlining the
contours of the current crises in the scholarly communication
system, the article goes on to discuss
how individual electronic scholarly publication projects have
challenged the traditional publishing
houses by offering alternative models of scholarly publication
that more closely fit with the needs of
the academy. The article then looks at some of the ways in which
the traditional interests have
responded to the threat posed by the independent publishers.
As is demonstrated in the article, their
response has been aggressive. The article closes with a warning
about a possible shift, made
possible by advanced information technologies, in the way the
scholarly communication system is
funded. After examining the potential for the development of
a user pay-per service, the article
concludes with a warning about the academic and intellectual
fallout of a move away from a
collectively funded scholarly communication project."
Scholarly Electronic
Publishing Bibliography http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.htmlhttp://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html
By Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Version 29: 2/16/2000
Scholar's
Forum http://library.caltech.edu/publications/ScholarsForum/
A New Model For Scholarly Communication
Anne M. Buck, Richard C. Flagan and Betsy Coles,
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, March 23, 1999
"It is becoming increasingly clear to the scholarly community that
we must envision and develop for ourselves a new, affordable model for
disseminating and preserving results, that synthesizes digital technology
and the ongoing needs of scholars."
Scholarly
Journals at the Crossroads A Subversive Proposal for Electronic Publishing.
"Scholarly Journals at the Crossroads makes publishing history. It
is the first time that a book derived from a series of wide-ranging Internet
discussions on a scholarly topic recreates (insofar as possible) an e-mail
experience for a general academic and publishing audience."
Scholarly
Communication http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/News/Academia/communication.html
A Webliography.
The Impact
of Electronic Journals on Scholarly Communication: A Citation Analysis
by Stephen P. Harter.
New Horizons in Scholarly
Communication - Home Page http://libweb-01.ucsc.edu/scomm/
"We define "scholarly communication" broadly, as the various means
by which information
exchange takes place in academia--including the formal publication
of research; informal
discourse among colleagues; class discussions and lectures; data retrieval
through local and
global networks; and continuing access to the scholarly record in print
and digital libraries."
COPYRIGHT
LEGISLATION AND SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION - WORKING DRAFT
http://www.ucop.edu/irc/wp/wp_Docs/wpd006.html
Electronic
Publishing and scholarly communication on the Internet http://citd.scar.utoronto.ca/capa/e-publishing.html
"Network based scholarly publishing has a major impact upon the ways
in which academics communicate the results of their research. The advent
of new information technologies, and in particular the World-Wide Web,
offers very positive advantages in terms of rapidity of scientific and
scholarly exchange and access to information, but also raises important
issues regarding intellectual property rights, peer review, the integrity
of data and the storage and archiving of material. The purpose of this
page is to provide convenient links to discussions on these issues and
to point to some innovative projects in scholarly publishing and electronic
journals. The articles and e-journals listed here are far from exhaustive,
and they represent only a small sample of the rapidly growing activity
of electronic publishing."
Committee on Scholarly Communication http://www.indiana.edu/~librcsd/csc/
Overview of the Scholarly Societies Project http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/society/overview.html
Website of the American
Council of Learned Societies http://www.acls.org/jshome.htm
The Electronic Monograph
in the 21st Century http://www.acls.org/jhd-aha.htm
American Council of Learned Societies, John H. D'Arms
Panel on "Scholarly Publishing in the 21st Century", American
Historical Association
Chicago, January 7, 2000
"The history of producing scholarly writing for scholarly readers—from
the
papyrus roll, to the codex, through the advances of the Carolingian
period,
to the age of Gutenberg—suggests that while the medium is not
identical
with the message, the two are closely linked. The scholarly
medium has
always both enabled scholarly messages but has also inevitably
constrained
them; moreover, new media have also sometimes required or created
new
organizational forms. This initial reminder may be salutary
as we approach
the prospects of the scholarly monography in the twenty-first
century."
Office of Scholarly Communication http://www.arl.org/scomm/index.html
Digital Library and Archives
(formerly Scholarly Communications Project), University Libraries, Virginia
Tech http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/
The Scholarly Communications Project has expanded its resources
and services and merged
with Special Collections to become the university's Digital Library
and Archives. Since
1989, SCP has worked with members of the university community
to help them create online
resources such as electronic journals, and to use library services
such as electronic reserve with its
centralized access to course materials. In addition, DLA designs
and maintains systems including
those for electronic theses and dissertations and digital images.
Special Collections, including rare
books, manuscript collections, and the University Archives, collects
and preserves unique historical
materials, providing access to them in their original form and
online through the Internet.
COPYRIGHT
LEGISLATION AND SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION - WORKING DRAFT http://www.ucop.edu/irc/wp/wp_Docs/wpd006.html
Over the past two years, much thinking about the networked information
age has focused on revising intellectual property regimes to regulate technological
capabilities that did not exist when current laws were drafted. In the
political arena, the Commerce Department issued a White Paper that became
the basis for proposed copyright legislation and for proposed new international
treaty language. Contrary to initial expectations--and contrary to the
claims of its authors that the proposed legislation represented mere technical
adjustments to copyright law--these efforts proved to be so contentious
that the bills died in committee. At this writing, the treaty language
remains pending, and it is anticipated that new copyright bills will be
introduced into the next Congress. Before grappling with detailed legislative
language, the University of California seeks to articulate a set of broad
principles that can be used to guide institutional positioning in the political
arena by
providing a set of standards against which to evaluate legislative
proposals.
Collection
Issues in Research Libraries http://www.lib.utexas.edu/cird/Issues/issues.html
"With scholarly journals costing as much as $20,000, commercial scholarly
publishers with annual profits as high as 40%, and scholarly societies
increasing prices at rates just slightly less than commercial publishers
-- the current system of scholarly communication has been breaking down
for several years. Libraries cannot afford the high cost of
journals, and the price of journals has forced libraries to reduce the
purchases of books. As a result, each year libraries purchase fewer
journals and fewer books. Meanwhile researchers continue to publish in
high-cost, high-prestige journals that reach fewer and fewer of their colleagues.
Unless there is change in this model, the current system of scholarly communication
will continue its gradual collapse."
The
cost of publishing an electronic journal: a general model and a case study
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november98/11roes.html
D-Lib Magazine, November 1998.
Electronic
Journals - Resource Guide http://www.harrassowitz.de/ms/ejresguide.html#Usage
of electronic journals introduction
"This Resource guide is an introduction to the rapidly growing field
of electronic journals. The sources are spread broadly across the library
literature, and this guide attempts to select a representative, but not
exhaustive, group of publications that cover the history of e-journals
and the main issues involved in their production, management and use. The
guide also suggests starting points for more in-depth investigations, and
includes sources for keeping current with ongoing developments in electronic
journals."
SPARC Fact Sheet
"SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition,
is an alliance of libraries that fosters expanded competition in scholarly
communication. Launched with support from membership of the Association
of Research Libraries (ARL), SPARC creates "partnerships" with publishers
who are developing high-quality, economical alternatives to existing high-price
publications.
By partnering with publishers, SPARC aims to: create a more competitive
marketplace where the cost of journal acquisition and use is reduced, and
publishers who are responsive to customer needs are rewarded; ensure fair
use of electronic resources, while strengthening the proprietary rights
and privileges of authorship; apply technology to improve the process of
scholarly communication and to reduce the costs of production and distribution."
Conference on the Future of Scholarly Communication
Scholar's Forum http://library.caltech.edu/publications/scholarsforum/
Canadian Electronic Scholarly Network Homepage http://www.schoolnet.ca/vp-pv/cesn/e/
Public E-Print Archive: Stevan Harnad on Interactive Publication http://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/%7Eharnad/intpub.html
The Journal of Electronic
Publishing http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/
University of Michgan Press, Colin Day, Editor.