For immediate release:
April 21, 2008
For more information, contact:
Kaylyn Groves
Association of Research Libraries
kaylyn@arl.org
Issues Surrounding Scholarly Journals Highlighted in ARL Bimonthly Report
Washington DC—Supply and demand issues surrounding scholarly journals take center stage in the April 2008 issue of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Bimonthly Report, no. 257. Articles examine the outlook for e-only journal publishing, faculty expectations for library journal collections, and a proposal from a community of scientists for a new funding approach to provide open access to the core journals in their discipline.
Articles featured:
“Are Journal Publishers Trapped in the Dual-Media Transition Zone?”
by Richard K. Johnson and Judy Luther
“Bound for Disappointment: Faculty and Journals at Research Institutions”
by Jim Self, Director of Management Information Services, University of Virginia Library
“The Audacity of SCOAP3”
by Ivy Anderson, Director of Collections, California Digital Library
Other topics covered in this issue are ARL’s Web guide to the NIH Public Access Policy, NISO’s best practices for Shared E-Resource Understanding (SERU), and a tribute to retiring ARL Executive Director Duane E. Webster by University of Oklahoma’s Dean of Libraries Sul H. Lee.
This issue is in the mail to ARL member libraries and subscribers this week.
The issue is also freely available on the Web at http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/br/br257.shtml.
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 123 research libraries in North America. Its mission is to influence the changing environment of scholarly communication and the public policies that affect research libraries and the diverse communities they serve. ARL pursues this mission by advancing the goals of its member research libraries, providing leadership in public and information policy to the scholarly and higher education communities, fostering the exchange of ideas and expertise, and shaping a future environment that leverages its interests with those of allied organizations. ARL is on the Web at http://www.arl.org/.
