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SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION - Open Access, Archiving, and New Models of Publishing
Powerpoint presentation for Windows on our Work, Feb. 21, 2007
"The Internet is profoundly changing how scientists work and publish. New business models are being tested by publishers, including open access, in which the author pays and content is free to the user. This ongoing web focus will explore current trends and future possibilities. Each week, the website will publish specially commissioned insights and analysis from leading scientists, librarians, publishers and other stakeholders, as well as key links, and articles from our archive. All content is available free." Nature.com Web page, March 23, 2004.
See SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Resources Coaltion) webpage, Create Change.
For information on the Federal Research Public Access Act:
- Letter signed by 53 Liberal Arts Presidents in Inside Higher Education
- "The Next Big Library Legislative Issue" in American Libraries, Sep2006, Vol. 37 Issue 8, p30-32 (available via EbscoHost)
- Description of an Open Access Publication
or Service
- Selected Open Access Resources
- Open Access Initiatives
- Author Rights
- Selected Articles and Sources for More
Information on Open Access and Scholarly Publishing
Description of an Open Access Publication or Service
An Open Access Publication or Service is one that meets the following two conditions:
1. The author(s) and copyright holder(s) grant(s) to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship[2], as well as the right to make small numbers of printed copies for their personal use.
2. A complete version of the work and all supplemental materials, including a copy of the permission as stated above, in a suitable standard electronic format is deposited immediately upon initial publication in at least one online repository that is supported by an academic institution, scholarly society, government agency, or other well-established organization that seeks to enable open access, unrestricted distribution, interoperability, and long-term archiving (for the biomedical sciences, PubMed Central is such a repository).
Adapted from the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing, June 20, 2003
Key Open Access Concepts by Charles W. Bailey
What is Open Access by Charles W. Bailey, Jr., preprint
Selected Open Access Resources
- BioMed
Central - Digital repository of open access publications
including journals across all biomedical fields - from basic life sciences
to clinical medicine. All original research articles are peer reviewed
and, if published, made immediately and freely available through BioMed
Central. Macalester participates with other liberal arts colleges around
the country to receive access to BioMed Central.
- Directory of
Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - Provides access to over 800
free, fulltext scientific and scholarly journals covering a variety
of disciplines and languages. Included journals must exercise a peer-review
or editorial quality control publishing model. Lund University Libraries,
Open Society Institute (OSI), and the Scholarly Publishing and Academic
Resources Coalition (SPARC).
- OAIster
- The OAIster service establishes a broad, generic, information retrieval
resource for information about publicly available digital library resources
provided by the research library community. Our goal is to create a
collection of freely available, difficult-to-access, academically-oriented
digital resources that are easily searchable by anyone. Digital resources
include electronic books, online journals, audio files (e.g., wav, mp3),
images (e.g., tiff, gif), movies (e.g., mpeg, quicktime), and reference
texts (e.g., dictionaries, directories). Project of the University
of Michigan Digital Library Production Services, originally
funded through a Mellon grant (see the final
report). University of Michigan Digital Library Production
Services and the University of Illinois. 3,164,254 records from 282
institutions (as of May 2004) Suggested Search: tree frog
- PLoS (Public
Library of Science) - Non-profit organization of scientists
and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical
literature a freely available public resource. Provides original published
reports of ideas, discoveries, and research results in the life sciences
and medicine. Currently includes the PLoS
Biology journal with the PLoS
Medicine journal becoming available in Fall, 2004. Macalester
is a participant.
- RedLightGreen
- Freely available Web catalog that helps you locate books and other
research materials and find out whether what you need is available at
your library. Includes information about more than 130 million books
and other materials available at Research Library Group (RLG) member
libraries worldwide. Searches put the most widely held items near the
top of results lists, which helping searchers zero in on the most credible
books and authors quickly. If you choose to sign in, you can format
and send yourself citations or a bibliography using the following style
formats: MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian. Still under development, RedLightGreen
is being tested by Columbia University, New York University, Princeton
University, Swarthmore College, and the University of Minnesota.Research
Libraries Group (RLG).
- Scirus
- Comprehensive science-specific search engine that enables users to
find scientific, scholarly, technical and medical data on the Web. Designed
to find the latest reports, peer-reviewed articles and journals deep
within Web sites. filters out non-scientific sites.
- SHERPA: Securing
a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access. Located in
the UK, a resource for information on open access publishing, copyright
issues and self-archiving.
- Romeo - a list
of publishers copyright and self-archiving policies. Look for "green"
publishers who allow authors to retain self-archiving privileges.
- Romeo - a list
of publishers copyright and self-archiving policies. Look for "green"
publishers who allow authors to retain self-archiving privileges.
- University of California Digital Library Escholarship Repository - "The repository, sponsored by the California Digital Library, provides persistent access and makes the content easily discoverable. It is a project of the eScholarship initiative of the California Digital Library within the University of California Office of the President. eScholarship, whose mission is to facilitate and support scholar-led innovations in scholarly communication, is providing this and other services in response to an expressed need for alternative publishing mechanisms. This UC Office of the President/CDL initiative stands to benefit the entire university." Suggested Search: tree frog
Open Access Organizations and Initiatives
- Open
Archives Initiative (OAI) - The Open Archives Initiative
develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate
the efficient dissemination of content. The Open Archives Initiative
has its roots in an effort to enhance access to e-print archives as
a means of increasing the availability of scholarly communication.
- SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) - SPARC is an alliance of universities, research libraries, and organizations built as a constructive response to market dysfunctions in the scholarly communication system. These dysfunctions have reduced dissemination of scholarship and crippled libraries. SPARC serves as a catalyst for action, helping to create systems that expand information dissemination and use in a networked digital environment while responding to the needs of academe.
Author Rights
- Author Addendum - SPARC has prepared an Author
Addendum [pdf] which faculty can use to retain their rights at the
time of submission to publishers. For information see the SPARC
website for information and a copy of the form.
- Reshaping Scholarly Communication - The
UC Office of Scholarly Communication provides a website with information
including Seven
points to consider about copyright.
- Science
Commons Scholar's Copyright Project - Science Commons is
part of the Creative Commons project. The Scholar's Copyright project
was launched in June 2006.
- "The
Case for Scholar's Management of Author Rights". Carol Ann
Hughes. portal: Libraries and the Academy, vol 6. no.2 (2006),
pp.123-126.
Selected Articles and Sources for More
Information on Open Access and Scholarly Publishing
- Nature's
Web page provides links to position papers from various
publishers.
- DC
Principles for Free Access - "Forty-nine scientific society
publishers issued a statement called the 'DC Principles for Free Access
to science.' The statement reaffirms the commitment of these publishers
to the widest possible dissemination of scientific research, under a
variety of business models. The statement asserts that the costs of
publishing should not be borne solely by authors and their institutions
(a somewhat different approach to that articulated by many Open Access
advocates)." See Chronicle of Higher Ed article - "Scientific
Societies' Publishing Arms Unite Against Open-Access Movement",
March 26, 2004, p.A20; http://chronicle.com
Section: Research & Publishing Volume 50, Issue 29, Page A20
- High
Costs of Scholarly Journals
CHANGE, Nov/Dec 2003, p. 10-1 - A recent article by Richard Edwards
and David Shulenburger outlines some key issues regarding the reasons
scholarly journal prices have increased at an exceptionally high rat
as well as providing some interesting thoughtful suggestions for "what
do do about it".
- Issues
in Scholarly Publishing - the ARL (Association of Research
Libraries) site for resources.
- Open
Access Journals in the ISI Citation Databases: Analysis of Impact Factors
and Citation Patterns (Thomson Scientifice White Paper)
- Findings indicate that journals published under the Open Access (OSA)
model continue to gain impact in the world of scholarly research."
Further, "of the 8,700 selected journals currently covered in Web
of Science(R), 239 are OA journals. Though the number is small in comparison
to the total number of journals indexed in Web of Science, the number
represents an estimated 20% of all OA journals."
- NIH Proposal
and Letter
to Faculty (Macalester Information)
- New
England Journal of Medicine Editorial, May 2, 2005,
on new NIH policy on public access for federal funded research projects
- New
England Journal of Medicine Editorial, May 2, 2005,
on new NIH policy on public access for federal funded research projects
- Net writing new chapter for science journals, Andrew Kantor, USA Today.Com. Think Napster and music industry and you'll have a sense of how science publishers are starting to feel.
Archived Content
March 2002 - Letter to Library Reps on serials
November 17, 2003 - Link to Presentation on Science Direct