Overview
Researchers and scholars provide the focus and the purpose for scholarly communication while libraries and librarians can be forceful advocates for positive change, the engagement of scholars and researchers is essential.
Researchers' Voices
Create Change, sponsored by ARL, ACRL, and SPARC, seeks to address the crisis in scholarly communication by helping scholars regain control of the scholarly communication system—a system that should exist chiefly for them, their students, and their colleagues in the worldwide scholarly community, not primarily for the benefit of publishing businesses and their shareholders.
Statements from Faculty Governance Bodies
Increasingly, faculty governance bodies are addressing a range of scholarly communication issues, expressing their concerns, and issuing statements of support for actions they believe will strengthen the scholarly communication system.
A new strategy was adopted by the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences when they passed a resolution creating a new policy - one that grants the university a license to distribute faculty members journal articles for non-commercial purposes. "Harvard to collect, disseminate scholarly articles for faculty", February 12, 2008.
University of Oregon University Senate passed an, "Initiative to protect the rights of faculty authors of scholarly publications", February 13, 2008.
Faculty Senate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst passes, "A
Resolution on Scholarly Publishing ," May 10, 2007 [PDF]
University of Wisconsin Faculty Senate, "
Resolution in Support of Assisting University Faculty in Managing Their Publishing Rights and Agreements," May 7, 2007 [PDF]
University of Minnesota Senate endorsement of , May 3, 2007
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign Senate adopts , April 30, 2007
University of California System. Academic Council Special Committee on Scholarly Communication releases five white papers and one policy proposal, December 2005.
Assembly of the Academic Senate approves revision to Scholarly Work Copyright Policy, May 2006 [PDF]
ARL's Karla Hahn and others submit comments on the white papers and policy proposal, February 2006 [PDF]
University of Iowa, Meeting of University Library Committee, "Suggestions for UI Faculty Senate Resolution on Scholarly Publishing," September 2005
University of California, Santa Cruz, Committee on the Library, "Resolutions on Scholarly Publishing," May 2005 [PDF]
Case Western University, Faculty Senate Resolution on Open Access Publishing, April 2005 [PDF]
"Columbia University Senate Endorses Resolution on Open Access and Scholarly Communication," April 2005
University of California, Berkeley, "Scholarly Publishing Statement of Principles," March 2005 [PDF]
Cornell University, "Faculty Senate Endorses Resolution on Open Access and Scholarly Communication," March 2005
University of Kansas "Resolution
on Access to Scholarly Information," March 2005
University of Wisconsin-Madison, " Resolution in Support of Accessible Scholarly and Scientific Publication," March 2005 [PDF]
University of California, Irvine, "Joint Resolution on Scholarly Communication and Faculty Copyrights UCI Academic Senate Assembly Council on Computing, Research, and Library Resources UCI Libraries,", November 2004 [PDF]
Indiana University Bloomington, "Faculty Council Resolution on Journals, Databases, and Threats to Scholarly Publication," March 2004
University of Connecticut, "Faculty Senate Resolution on the Crisis in Scholarly Communication"
North Carolina State University, "Faculty Senate Resolution on Bundled Content and Elsevier," December 2003
University of California, Santa Cruz, Committee on the Library, "Resolution on Ties with Elsevier Journals," October 2003 [PDF]
University of California system, Systemwide Library and Scholarly Information Advisory Committee, "Resolution G: Digital Library Journal Collecting Principle," April 2003
