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KEY SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION RESOURCES ON THE WEB
NEWS
- Issues in Scholarly Communication: University Librarian Paula Kaufman maintains this newsletter/blog to keep the U of Illinois community apprised of the latest developments in scholarly communication.
- Open Access News: Peter Suber's frequently updated news blog focuses, as the title suggests, on developments in the open access movement, but also covers other scholarly communication areas. Suber also puts out a monthly newsletter.
TAKING ACTION
- Scholarly Communication Toolkit: This excellent resource from the Association of College and Research Libraries provides a concise overview of the issues. Problems are linked to direct actions that faculty, librarians, and universities can take.
- Create Change: Like the Toolkit, this website aims to support faculty and librarian action in creating a better system of scholarly communication.
RESOURCES FOR AUTHORS
- Directory of Open Access Journals: If you are interesting in submitting your work to an open access journal, you can use this directory to find titles in your field.
- SHERPA: Use this database to check publishers' policies on author self-archiving of pre- and post-prints.
PUBLISHING ORGANIZATIONS
- BioMed Central: Open access publisher of peer-reviewed biomedical research.
- Public Library of Science (PLoS): A leading open access publisher of peer-reviewed scientific journals.
- SPARC: An organization that works to create and support low cost and open access scholarly journals.
COPYRIGHT ISSUES
- Copyown: A resource on copyright ownership for the higher education community from the University of Maryland and the Association of Research Libraries.
SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION SITES AT OTHER UNIVERSITIES
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