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Scholarly Communication & Open Access:

SPARC and Science Commons. Open Doors and Open Minds. http://www.arl.org/sparc/bm~doc/opendoors_v1.pdf

Wilbanks, John. The Control Fallacy. http://precedings.nature.com/documents/1808/version/1

Albert, Karen M. Open Access: Implications for Scholarly Publishing and Medical Libraries. JMLA  94(3) July 2006. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1525322

Bergman, Sherrie S. The Scholarly Communication Movement: Highlights and Recent Developments. Collection Building, 25(4), 2006. http://emeraldinsight.com/Insight/ViewContentServlet?Filename=Published/EmeraldFullTextArticle/Articles/1710250401.html

Brody, Timothy D. Evaluating research Impact through OA to Scholarly Communication, doctoral thesis. University of Southampton, May 2006. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/13313/

Eysenbach, Gunther. Citation advantage of open access articles. PLoS Biology  4(5) May 2006. http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0040157 

Suber, Peter (2003, February). Removing the Barriers to Research: An Introduction to Open Access for Librarians. College & Research Libraries News, 64: 92-94,113. www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/acrl.htm

Mabe , Michael A. and Amin, Mayur. Dr. Jekyll and Dr. Hyde: author-reader asymmetries in scholarly publishing. Aslib Proceedings 54(3): 149-157. 2002. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/ViewContentServlet?Filename=Published/EmeraldFullTextArticle/Pdf/2760540301.pdf

McCarthy, Gavan & Evans, Joanne. The Open Resource Scholarly Network: New Collaborative Partnerships Between Academics, Libraries, Archives and Museums. Paper presented at the meeting of the Victoria Association for Library Automation (VALA) Conference, Melbourne. http://www.vala.org.au/vala2002/2002pdf/15McCEva.pdf

Ginsparg, Paul (2004). "Scholarly Information Architecture, 1989-2015." Data Science Journal 3, 29-37,
http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/dsj/3/0/29/_pdf

Economic Issues:

Holmstrom, Jonas (2004). "The Cost Per Article Reading of Open Access Articles." D-Lib Magazine, 10 (1), http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january04/holmstrom/01holmstrom.html

Holmstrom, Jonas (2004). "The Return on Investment of Electronic Journals-It Is a Matter of Time." D-Lib Magazine, 10 (4), http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april04/holmstrom/04holmstrom.html

Kean, Gene (Allen Press). Annual study of journal prices for scientific and medical society journals. Newsletter for Journal Publishers. Annual. http://www.allenpress.com/static/newsletters/pdf/JP-2005-03.pdf

SQW Limited. Costs and Business Models in Scientific Research Publishing: A Report Commissioned by the Wellcome Trust. London: The Wellcome Trust, 2004. http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/assets/wtd003184.pdf 

White, Sonya and Creaser, Claire. Trends in Scholarly Journal Prices 2000-06:
a report (dated March 2007). Sponsored by Oxford Journals and updates work documented in their 2004 report. http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/dis/lisu/downloads/op37.pdf

Willinsky, John (2003). "Scholarly Associations and the Economic Viability of Open Access Publishing." Journal of Digital information, 4 (2), http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i02/Willinsky/

Publishing:

The articles in this section highlight some of the publishing issues faced by both commercial and nonprofit publishers.

Willinsky, J. & Mendis, R. (2007). "Open access on a zero budget: a case study of Postcolonial Text" Information Research, 12(3) paper 308. Available at http://InformationR.net/ir/12-3/paper308.html

Marshall, E. (2003, February 14). Science Publishing: The UPSIDE of Good Behavior: Make Your Data Freely Available. Science, 299, 990. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/299/5609/990.pdf

Kling, R., Spector, L., Fortuna, J. (2004, January). The Real Stakes of Virtual Publishing: The Tranformation of E-Biomed into PubMed Central.  Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 55(2): 127-148. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/106563225/PDFSTART

National Academy of Sciences (2003). Sharing Publication-Related Data and Materials: Responsibilities of Authorship in the Life Sciences. Washington, D.C. , National Academies Press. http://books.nap.edu/books/0309088593/html/R1.html

GuÈdon, Jean-Claude (2001). In Oldenburg's Long Shadow: Librarians, Research Scientists, Publishers, and the Control of Scholarly Publishing. Washington, D.C. : Association for Research Libraries. http://www.arl.org/arl/proceedings/138/guedon.html

King, Donald W (2004). "Should Commercial Publishers Be Included in the Model for Open Access through Author Payment?" D-Lib Magazine, 10 (6), http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june04/king/06king.html

Prosser, David C. (2004) Between a rock and a hard place: the big squeeze for small publishers. Learned Publishing 17(1):pp. 17-22. http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00000945/

Medeiros, Norm (2004) Of budgets and boycotts: the battle over open access publishing. OCLC Systems & Services 20(1):pp. 7-10. http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00001193/

Open Archives Initiative:

The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) is an attempt to build a low-barrier interoperability framework for digitally archived materials. OAI has been involved in the development of standards for enhancing access to e-print archives, in order to increase the availability of scholarly communication.

Jørgensen, L. (2004). How to disseminate Open Access Journals through OAI: the DOAJ project. Presentation, Retrieved from http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00000989/

Institutional Repositories:

One definition of an institutional repository, adopted by The case for institutional repositories: a SPARC position paper, is a "digital collection capturing and preserving the intellectual output of a single or multi-university community". Most repositories are managed at a single-institution level but occasionally consortial or multi-institutional basis.

Johnson, R. (2002). Institutional Repositories: Partnering with Faculty to Enhance Scholarly Communication. D-Lib Magazine, 8. Retrieved from http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november02/johnson/11johnson.html

Tennant, R. (2002). Institutional Repositories. Library Journal, 127 (15), Retrieved from: http://libraryjournal.reviewsnews.com/index.asp?layout=articlePrint&articleID=CA242297&publication=libraryjournal

Young, J. (2002). Superarchives Could Hold All Scholarly Output: Online Collections by Institutions May Challenge the Role of Journal Publishers. Chronicle of Higher Education, 48, A29-30. Retrieved from http://chronicle.com/weekly/v48/i43/43a02901.htm

Eprints:

E-prints refer to electronic versions of research papers or other similar output, such as pre-prints (pre-refereed papers), post-prints (post refereed papers), conference papers, and so on.

Frankel, Mark S. (2002). Seizing the Moment: Scientists' Authorship Rights in the Digital Age. Washington, D.C. : Association for the Advancement of Science. http://www.aaas.org/spp/sfrl/projects/epub/finalreport.pdf

Beier, Gerhard, and Theresa Velden. "The eDoc-Server Project: Building an Institutional Repository for the Max Planck Society." High Energy Physics Libraries Webzine, no. 9 (2004). http://library.cern.ch/HEPLW/9/papers/4/

Coleman, Anita, Paul Bracke, and S. Karthik. "Integration of Non-OAI Resources for Federated Searching in DLIST, an Eprints Repository." D-Lib Magazine 10, no. 7/8 (2004). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july04/coleman/07coleman.html

Guy, Marieke, Andy Powell, and Michael Day. "Improving the Quality of Metadata in Eprint Archives." Ariadne, no. 38 (2004). http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/guy/