Scholarly Electronic Publishing Initiatives
Resource Guides and Principles
Comprehensive guides providing multiple links to resources on issues related
to electronic journals and scholarly communications.
- Ejournals
- Sponsored by the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, this site presents
a treasure chest of information about electronic journals. It focuses on
journals in the health sciences.
- Electronic Journals:
Selected Resource Guides
- By Harrassowitz Publishing, this is an overview and summary of resources
on issues related to electronic journals.
- Gaining Independence: Published
by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
- A manual for planning the launch of a nonprofit electronic publishing venture.
- New
Horizons in Scholarly Communications: Publishing Subsection
- By the Scholarly Communication Web Editorial Committee, Librarians Association
of the University of California, this publication lists numerous useful sites
related to recent trends in scholarly communications.
- Open Access Journal Business Guides
- These guides from the Open Society Institute provide practical information
particular to open-access electronic journals. The three guides are Guide
to Business Planning for Converting a Subscription-based Journal to Open
Access, Guide
to Business Planning for Launching a New Open Access Journal and Model
Business Plan: A Supplemental Guide for Open Access Journal Developers and
Publishers
- Principles
and Strategies for the Reform of Scholarly Communication
- The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), a division of
the American Library Association (ALA), established these principles and
strategies.
- Principles for Emerging Systems
of Scholarly Publishing
- Principles to guide the transformation of the scholarly publishing system
that were prepared by a group that met in March, 2000 under the sponsorship
of the Association of American Universities and the Association of Research
Libraries.
- New! SPARC Institutional
Repository Checklist and Resource Guide
- From The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
- Tools and Resources
for Online Journal Editing & Publishing
- From the University of Nevada, Reno Libraries, this site contains links
to peer review and manuscript management systems, organizations and initiatives,
discussion lists, interoperability with journal access and linking systems
and intellectual property.
- When a Society Journal Changes
Publisher
- From The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, this
document offers guidelines for good practice when a society journal moves
from one publisher to another
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