Scholarly Communication Today
Scholarly communication is undergoing tremendous change. The Internet, publisher consolidation, rising periodical prices, declining library budgets and on-going copyright battles all serve to make for a time of transition which could open up new ways for scholars to communicate.
Below you will find various websites produced by people trying to make sense of what's going on and perhaps influence the future in a way that could be more efficient and less costly.
SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) is a world-wide alliance of research institutions, libraries and other organizations that encourages competition in the scholarly communications market.
The Public Library of Science is a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.
Association of Research Libraries Office of Scholarly Communication Find out how librarians, university administrators and faculty are looking at distributing research in new ways.
New Horizons in Scholarly Communication is a website produced by the Librarians Association of the University of California . There are articles and documents here about tenure, promotion, authors maintaining copyright and many other issues.
The Library at North Carolina State University has an excellent website. It is especially strong in copyright and Internet law.
The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography presents selected English-language articles, books and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet.
The Society for Scholarly Publishing seeks to advance scholarly publishing and communication, and the professional development of its members through education, collaboration and networking among individuals in this field.
For comments or suggestions concerning this page, please contact: Steve McGinty
Last Edited: 22 January 2009
