"The Office of Scholarly Communication facilitates internal partnerships among the UC libraries, faculty, and administration and, where appropriate, in concert with entities outside UC." Nice use of faculty champions/testimonials.

Annual Library Journal issue with journal prices.

Duke Law has published a graphic novel "Bound by Law" to discuss copyright and fair use. It uses documentary film making and clearance as its premise. Very interesting.

Great article on copyright and open access with a catchy metaphor to LOTR. Written by John Ober of UC Office of Scholarly Communication, from C&RL News, April 2006.

Nick Okrent's guide for undergraduates on copyright. It is available throught PORT.

Title 17 in its entirerty.

This is the US Code17 Chapter 1 regarding SUBJECT MATTER AND SCOPE OF COPYRIGHT. Section 107, the fair use statement can be found within this chapter.

PDF of Faculty Senate Statement in support of open access.

New economic experiments and new technologies are beginning to create a greater diversity of complementary -- not competing -- avenues for the dissemination of scholarly work. Institutional repositories such as KU ScholarWorks containing supplementary materials, working papers, and pre-prints extend the options for disseminating scholarly work beyond traditional publication of peer-reviewed articles and books. Open-access journals whose costs are covered through author-fees and other non-subscription revenue are emerging alongside traditional subscription-based journals.

Open access may take the form of posting traditionally published articles (in the author's final draft version) on the Web where they are available to everyone, publishing in one of the more than a thousand open access journals, or making scholarly material openly available in a variety of other ways. Several recent studies have demonstrated that, as suspected, peer-reviewed open access journals are cited more frequently than traditional journals.

Scholarly communication refers to the formal and informal processes by which the research and scholarship of faculty, researchers, and independent scholars are created, evaluated, edited, formatted, distributed, organized, made accessible, archived, used, and transformed. In recent years the concept of scholarly communication has also begun to connote faculty collaborating with publishers, librarians, and others, in solving the grievous problem of the inability of libraries to keep up with the ever-increasing volume and cost of scholarly resources.

Text of a lecture given by Paul Royster to Library Faculty at the University of Nebraska. Found in their Digital Commons database.

Scholarly journal content is increasingly available in electronic formats, but licenses for electronic content are typically much more expensive than print subscriptions--to account for a larger potential readership. Ease and convenience of use of this content is improved dramatically, but only for those whose libraries can afford to subscribe. Additionally, the terms of the licensing may be restricted.

News and Updates on the Scholarly Communications Crisis, from the University of Minnesota Libraries

Scholarly Communication: Information about journal prices, copyright, open access, and more

Scholarly communication is the lifeblood of the university. The dissemination of knowledge is an imperative of land grant universities like Illinois. Anything that threatens access to, or the free flow of, research and ideas is a threat to the health of the entire system

From the dcpriniciples website. "As scholarly, not-for-profit publishers, we reaffirm our commitment to innovative and independent publishing practices and to promoting the wide dissemination of information in our journals. Not-for-profit scientific, technical, and medical publishers are an integral part of the broader scholarly communities supporting scientists, researchers, and clinicians. We work in partnership with scholarly communities to ensure that these communities are sustained and extended, science is advanced, research meets the highest standards, and patient care is enhanced with accurate and timely information."

"A multidisciplinary problem-centered group with a broad concern for all dimensions of contemporary scholarly communication. These include, but are not limited to, the economics of publishing, the evolution of scholarly disciplines and its effect on publishing, information policy, copyright, the interactions of academic reward systems and publishing, and new communication technologies and their potential for providing relief from the crisis in scholarly communication. Through speakers, discussion groups, sharing of literature and news notices, and an electronic bulletin board, the Working Group hopes to stimulate discussion on these issues and, it is hoped, to be a catalyst for papers on scholarly communication, grant proposals and collaborative research."

Rutgers' scholarly communication page. Good use of institutional and library strategic plans in explanation. 

BC libraries' scholarly communications site with a mission to, "keep users informed of and to garner user input regarding developments in all aspects of scholarly communication."

"Dedicated to fostering open access to quality information in support of learning, scholarship, research and patient care."

"Running list of research papers, editorial appointments, and other content and actions results in freely available scholarship by researchers at CalTech. Created by CalTech librarians.

"Reflects the efforts of the Scholarly Communication program to create new models for scholarly exchange that build on the widespread adoption of digital technologies and networking for research, teaching, and learning. At the same time, the program works to improve the traditional systems of scholarly exchange and improve the purchasing power of libraries and the terms and conditions under which content is made available. Thus, issues of copyright, intellectual property, journal costs, library budgets, and similar questions all affect the ability of research institutions to provide access to scholarly information.

Cornell University Library scholarly communication website. "The purposes of this Web page are (a) to inform Cornell faculty of some of the key issues that drive the debates over scholarly communication, and (b) to suggest action that faculty might consider to support needed changes."

Chronological bibliography covering research that examines the relationship between open access and citation impact.