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Scholarly Electronic Publishing Initiatives
Current Issues in Electronic Publishing
- Reshaping Scholarly Communication: 2003
- From the University of California Libraries, this site summarizes the challenges of scholarly communication and the strategic responses to those challenges.
- Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities: October 2003
- All of Germany's principal scientific and scholarly institutions, including the Max-Planck Society, as well as a growing number of their counterparts from other countries, such as France's CNRS, have signed their commitment to open access to scientific and scholarly research.
- Association of American University Presses - Association of Research Libraries Statement on Scholarly Communications: October 2003
- "The Implications of Information Technology for Scientific Journal Publishing: A Literature Review: National Science Foundation, June 2003
- This report discusses the implications of electronic publishing for authors, readers, publishers and libraries.
- "Institutional Repositories: Partnering with Faculty to Enhance Scholarly Communication": Richard K. Johnson. D. Lib Magazine, November 2002.
- Notes the benefits of institutional repositories to universities and faculty as a response to today's scholarly journal system.
- "Can the Scientific Journals Market Work Better?": September 2002
- Posted September 9th, 2002 by the UK government Office of Fair Trading, the statement explores the fragmented market of STM (Scientific, Technical and Medical) publishing with commercial publishers having control over many of the most prestigious publications. Scroll down the Press Releases 2002 to the September section and click on the title (PN 55/02).
- "The Case for Institutional Repositories: A SPARC Position Paper": August 2002
- By SPARC, The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, this paper examines academic institutional repositories of digital collections. SPARC states, "institutional repositories offer a strategic response to systemic problems in the existing scholarly journal system, reaping both short-term and ongoing benefits for universities and their faculty and advancing the positive transformation of scholarly communication over the long term."
- "Electronic Publishing in Science: Seizing the Moment - Scientists' Authorship Rights in the Digital Age": July 2002
- A project of the American Association for the Advancement of Science funded by the National Science Foundation which examined intellectual property issues associated with electronic publishing in science. Includes a set of "core values" for scientific publishing systems.
- "Beyond Core Journals and Licenses: The Paths to Reform Scientific Publishing": Jean-Claude Guédon. ARL Bimonthly Report, October 2001
- Classic article which discusses the distortion of the original function of the scientific journal in the commercial setting and the Open Archives Initiative.
- "Future E-Access to the Primary Literature": Nature, September 2001
- Forum about the impact of the Web on the publishing of original research results and the implications of electronic publishing for the future dissemination of scientific literature
- "Preprint Servers: Pushing the Envelope of Electronic Scholarly Publishing": Nicholas G. Tomaiuolo and Joan G. Packer. Searcher, October 2000
- Interesting overview of preprints, preprint servers and related issues.
- "A Question of Access": Richard K. Johnson. D-Lib Magazine, May 2000
- Discusses SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), BioOne and society-driven electronic publishing.