Association of Research Libraries (ARL®)

• Campus Outreach

• Open Access

• Transition Issues

• NIH Public Access Policy

• Historical Perspectives

• Peer Review and New Models

• New Models for Traditional Genres

Campus Outreach

• Brown Bag Discussion Guide Series

• “Talk about Talking about New Models of Scholarly Communication”

• FAIR: Freely Accessible Institute Resources

• Create Change

Open Access

• Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals [PDF] by Charles W. Bailey Jr., provides over 1,300 selected English-language sources of all types and media that are useful in understanding the open access movement

• Peter Suber, an advocate for open access, provides a useful summary in his Open Access Overview

• SPARC Open Access Newsletter

• Framing the Issue: ARL's Guide to Open Access, May 2004 [PDF]

• SPARC Open Access Resources

• Open Access in the PALINET Leadership Network wiki

Transition Issues

• The E-only Tipping Point for Journals [PDF]

• SCOAP³: A New Model for Scholarly Communication

NIH Public Access Policy

• Guide for Research Universities

• Webcast: Institutional Compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy: Ensuring Deposit Rights

• Complying with the NIH Public Access Policy—Copyright Considerations and Options

• Managing Copyright for NIH Public Access: Strategies to Ensure Compliance [PDF]

Historical Perspectives

• Scholarly Tribes and Tribulations: How Tradition and Technology Are Driving Disciplinary Change (2003)

• Capitalizing on Competition: The Economic Underpinnings of SPARC (2002)

• In Oldenburg’s Long Shadow: Librarians, Research Scientists, Publishers, and the Control of Scientific Publishing (2001)

• Beyond Core Journals and Licenses: The Paths to Reform Scientific Publishing (2001)

• Tempe Principles for Emerging Systems of Scholarly Publishing (2000)

• The Specialized Scholarly Monograph in Crisis: Or How Can I Get Tenure If You Won't Publish My Book? (1997)

• Scholarly Journals at the Crossroads: A Subversive Proposal for Electronic Publishing: An Internet Discussion about Scientific and Scholarly Journals and Their Future (1995)

Peer Review and New Models

• Scholarly Communication: Academic Values and Sustainable Models, C. Judson King, Diane Harley, Sarah Earl-Novell, Jennifer Arter, Shannon Lawrence, and Irene Perciali (Berkeley: Center for Studies in Higher Education, July 2006) [PDF]

• “Does Tenure Need to Change?” The Scientist, online discussion, July 2007

• PLoS ONE is the most visible journal working with a new kind of peer review process.

• American Philological Association and the Archeological Institute of America Task Force on Electronic Publications, Final Report (April 2007)

• Society for Neuroscience: “The Journal of Neuroscience Institutes New Publishing Policy” and “Open Access Publishing Raises Questions,” Neuroscience Quarterly (Winter 2006)

• Modern Language Association Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Promotion and Tenure, “Report on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion” (2006)

• The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB), "Timely Free Access to Taxpayer-Funded Research Does Not Threaten Financial Stability of Scientific Journals" (2006)

• Nature: The Forum (2004). A collection of specially commissioned insights and analysis from leading scientists, librarians, publishers, and other stakeholders.

New Models for Traditional Genres

• ARL New Model Publications Study
  ARL has published a study surveying and analyzing a wide range of new kinds of works currently used by scholars and researchers, looking for trends and patterns (2008).

• "The Deep Niche," Michael Jensen, Journal of Electronic Publishing 10, no. 2 (Spring 2007)

• Institute for the Future of the Book

• "The Social Life of Books," Andrew R. Albanese, Library Journal (May 15, 2006)

• "University Publishing in a Digital Age," Laura Brown, Rebecca Griffiths, and Matthew Rascoff (Ithaka, July 2007)

• "Rice University Press: Fons et origo," Charles Henry, Journal of Electronic Publishing 10, no. 2 (Spring 2007)

• "Electronic Ecology: A Case Study of Electronic Journals in Context," Karla Hahn (Washington DC: ARL, 2001)