ARLIS/NA | Public Policy Committee

Scholarly Communication

Special sites and organizations:

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography- provides resources for scholars and librarians about electronic publishing. http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html

Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)- a joint effort between research institutions and publishers to provide better access to research at more affordable prices.
http://www.arl.org/sparc/core/index.asp?page=h16

FOS News: News from the Free Online Scholarship (FOS) Movement- contains news items and a discussion list to subscribe to. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html

Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL)- has an "Issues and Advocacy" page dedicated to scholarly communication.
http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/ACRL/Issues_and_Advocacy1/Scholarly_Communication/Scholarly_Communication.htm
Association of Research Libraries (ARL)- has an "Issues in Scholarly Communication" page that has information for researchers, publishers and librarians. http://www.arl.org/scomm/index.html

For information from the publishing side:

Professional Scholarly Publishing Bulletin- published by the Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers. http://www.pspcentral.org/bulletins/current_bulletin.pdf

Software and Information Industry Association- group that successfully lobbied to shut down PubSCIENCE because they considered it a government resource competing with private industry. http://www.siia.net/

Legislation:

Electronic Government Services Act of Ohio- pending legislation that seeks to remove content from state databases that is considered in competition with commercial publishers. Other states are interested in creating similar legislation. http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=125_HB_145

Articles:

Houghton, John. "The crisis in scholarly communication: an economic analysis."
Victorian Association for Library Automation Conference, Melbourne (February
2002). Available at http://www.vala.org.au/vala2002/2002pdf/16Houton.pdf

Harnad, Steve. "Scholarly communication at the crossroads: a subversive proposal for electronic publishing." Association of Research Libraries. 1995. Available at http://www.vala.org.au/vala2002/2002pdf/16Houton.pdf