Comprehensive guides providing multiple links to resources on issues related to electronic journals and scholarly communications.

Ejournals (http://nnlm.gov/libinfo/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 (http://www.harrassowitz.de/ms/ejresguide.html)

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) (http://www.arl.org/sparc/GI/)

A manual for planning the launch of a nonprofit electronic publishing venture.

New Horizons in Scholarly Communications: Publishing Subsection (http://libweb.ucsc.edu/lasso.acgi?[database]=scomm&[format]=scomm/pub.html&subj=publish&approved=x&[sortField]=date&[sortorder]=descending&[search])

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 (http://www.soros.org/openaccess/oajguides/business_converting.pdf)PDF, Guide to Business Planning for Launching a New Open Access Journal (http://www.soros.org/openaccess/oajguides/business_planning.pdf)PDF and Model Business Plan: A Supplemental Guide for Open Access Journal Developers and Publishers (http://www.soros.org/openaccess/oajguides/oaj_supplement_0703.pdf)PDF

Principles and Strategies for the Reform of Scholarly Communication (http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/ACRL/Publications/White_Papers_and_Reports/Principles_and_Strategies_for_the_Reform_of_Scholarly_Communication.htm)

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 (http://www.arl.org/scomm/tempe.html)

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.

SPARC Institutional Repository Checklist and Resource Guide (http://www.arl.org/sparc/IR/IR_Guide.html)  NEW 

From The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition

Tools and Resources for Online Journal Editing & Publishing (http://www.library.unr.edu/ejournals/editors.html)

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 (http://www.alpsp.org/socjourn1.pdf)PDF

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.