• Campus Outreach

• Open Access

• Transition Issues

• NIH Public Access Policy

• Historical Perspectives

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)