These selected resources include links to comprehensive sites on key scholarly communications issues, as well as examplary sites developed by various libraries for their local programs. Please contact Laura Iandoli laura@arl.org to suggest other examples or sites of interest.

Comprehensive Toolkits and Resources

• ARL's Freely Accessible Institute Resources - FAIR The FAIR site provides a space for institute faculty and alumni to share outreach resources with the broader community. Many resources are developed exclusively for the Institute but others may be developed by academic libraries and selected as FAIR resources.
  
• SPARC provides extensive resources on key topics including author's rights, institutional repositories, and economic factors.

Keeping Up To Date

• Conferences and workshops on Open Access: http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Events
  
• SPARC meetings & events page: http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/index.shtml
  
• Charles Bailey's Digital Koans: http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/
  
• Open Access Librarian: http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/
  
• Open Access News: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html
• Scholarly Kitchen, Society for Scholarly Publishing Blog: http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/
  
• SPARC enews: http://www.arl.org/sparc/publications/enews/index.shtml
  
• SPARC Open Access Newsletter (SOAN) authored by Peter Suber: http://www.arl.org/sparc/publications/soan/
  
• SPARC maintains several email forums on specific topics: http://www.arl.org/sparc/about/emailsignup.shtml
  
• Open Access Directory is a compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship: http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Main_Page

Author's Rights

• UC Managing Copyright Toolkit
  
• Author's Addendum - Institutional Addendum (placeholder) | Scholar's Copyright Addendum Engine from Science Commons (tool to let authors create their own addendum via templates and fill-in-the-blanks)
  

  Example presentation: UM self-playing slideshow on author's rights

Copyright and Fair Use

• UM Copyright Information and Education
  
• Fair Use Checklist - http://www.copyright.columbia.edu/fair-use-checklist
  
• Creative Commons - documentation page provides instructional materials about copyright and Creative Commons principles

Economic Issues

• SPARC Journal Pricing
  
• UC Economic Issues Toolkit
  

  Example of library sites illustrating high cost of online resources:
  UCSF
  Cornell University Engineering Library

Institutional Repositories

• SPARC Repository Resources
  

  Example of IR promotional video:
  T-Space: Increase the Impact of Your Research
  (U Toronto 5 minute self-player on its IR)

Legislation

• ARL: Public Policies
  
• SPARC: Advocacy

New Models

• New Modes from CreateChange
  
• Alternative Publishing Models, with examples, from the University of Iowa
  

  Example of library investment in new models:
  UC Libraries Investment in Transformative Scholarly Communication Models

NIH Public Access Policy

• NIH Public Policy Page
  
• PubMed Central Training Materials
  

  Example library website: Becker Medical Library, Washington University - very comprehensive site; flowcharts and other materials useful for training

Policy Initiatives from funders and research organizations

• JULIET - Research funders archiving mandates and guidelines
  

  Example policy: University of California - Draft Policy 2007

Scholarly Societies

• UC The Role of Scholarly Societies Toolkit
  
• DC Principles Web Site http://www.dcprinciples.org/index.htm - perspective of society publishers

Tenure and Peer Review

• Create Change: Rewards of scholarship
  
• 2008 Purdue forum: "The (e)volving World of Scholarly Communication and its Impact on your Promotion and Tenure"
  
• Report of the MLA Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion