Scholarly Communication (Publishing, Intellectual Property, Copyright)
Resources
Copyright & Other Intellectual Property Issues
Alternative Publishing/Copyright Agreements
Other University Scholarly Communication Initiatives
Look in Serials Directory to see the cost of your journal (U of A only)
The Academic Publishing Industry: A Story of Merger and Acquisition
Institutional Archives Registry
What is a Scholarly Communication Interaction?
ALA Scholarly Communication Toolkit
Principles
Principles for Emerging Systems of Scholarly Publishing (Tempe Principles)
AAUP-ARL Statement on Scholarly Communication (pdf)
Budapest Open Access Initiative
Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing
Washington, D.C. Principles for Free Access to Science
Principles and Strategies for the Reform of Scholarly Communication (Association of College and Research Libraries)
Open Access Publishing
Open Access at the Arizona Health Sciences Library (AHSL)
Directory of Open Access Journals
A directory of peer reviewed journals organized by Lund University Libraries.
Budapest Open Access Initiative
The SPARC Open Access Newsletter
Publisher copyright policies & self archiving
The optimum open access strategy today
A diagram suggesting a combined strategy from Steven Harnad
Washington D.C. Principles for Free Access to Science
University of Arizona Library Initiatives
Copyright & Other Intellectual Property Resources
University of Arizona Library Copyright Resources
Arizona Board of Regents Intellectual Property Policy (pdf)
University of Arizona Interim Intellectual Property Policy (pdf)
Copyright Crash Course (University of Texas)
IUPUI Copyright Management Center
TEACH Act Toolkit (NCSU)
University of Minnesota Copyright Information & Education provide a comprehensive and in depth survey of copyright issues in teaching and research for the higher education community. In addition to background information on copyright, the site incorporates a number of interesting and useful interactive tools.
Proposals for Action
Challenges for Chemists, Chemistry, and the ACS
Message from ACS President Charles P. Casey January 5, 2004 (Scroll to "Combined challenges of soaring library costs and 'open access' to literature".)
Create Change A resource for faculty and librarian action to reclaim scholarly communication.
Organizations
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coaltion (SPARC)
Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Issues in Scholarly Communication
Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Scholarly Communication Page
Other University Scholarly Communication Initiatives
Local Presentations
Copyright and the Public Domain (An internal presentation)
TEACH Act (An internal presentation)
(2003-11) The TEACH Act and Distance Learning: Doing the Digital (An ARL/EDUCAUSE Web Cast)
(2004-04-23) Shaping the Future of Scholarly Communication at the University of California
(2004-06-10) Institutional Repositories: Revealing Our Strengths (An ARL/EDUCAUSE Web Cast)
Further Reading
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography