Subject Guides: Scholarly Publishing: Resources

Resources to Learn More About Scholarly Publishing Issues

General

Glossary of Scholarly Publishing Terms
From UIUC Library.
Scholarly Communication Toolkit
From the Association of College & Research Libraries.
The Past, Present, & Future of Scholarly Publishing
Eisen, Michael. 2013.
Talk About Talking About New Models of Scholarly Communication
Hahn, Karla. The Journal of Electronic Publishing, 11 no. 1 (2008).
Scholarly Communication: Academic Values and Sustainable Models
King, C. Judson, and Diane Harley, et al. Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley. July 27, 2006. [Note especially the appendices.]
Scholarly Communication: A Long View
Mabe, Michael. New Review of Academic Librarianship, 16(S1) (2011).
Open Doors and Open Minds: What Faculty Authors Can Do to Ensure Open Access to Their Work through Their Institution
Nguyen, Thinh. 2008.
The Open Access Mandate at Harvard
Suber, Peter. SPARC Open Access News 119 (March 2, 2008).
Rethinking Scholarly Communication: Building the System that Scholars Deserve
Van de Sompel, Herbert et al. D-Lib Magazine, 10(9). September 2004.

Open Access

The University of California Berkeley Library defines Open Access (OA) literature as "free, digital, and available to anyone online." The possibilities and implications of OA publishing are wide-ranging, exciting, and at times controversial. Find some good introductory information about OA below.

Definitions

Open Access Defined
From the University of California at Berkeley
Open Access
From Wikipedia.
Open Access Overview
Suber, Peter.
Open Access
From the Public Library of Science (PLoS).
Open Access
From the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC).

Articles and Books

But what have you done for me lately? Commercial Publishing, Scholarly Communication, and Open-Access
Conley, John P. and Myrna Wooders. Economic Analysis & Policy, 39(1), March 2009.
Open Access : What You Need to Know Now
By Crawford, Walt.
Income models for Open Access: An overview of current practice
From SPARC.
Open Access
By Suber, Peter. MIT Press, 2012.

Author Rights/Managing Copyright

Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States
A charted explanation from Cornell University.
Author's Rights, Tout de Suite
By Bailey, Charles W. Digital Scholarship, 2008.
Copyright Crash Course
From University of Texas Libraries, by Georgia Harper.
Complying with the NIH Public Access Policy: Copyright Considerations and Options
By Carroll, Michael. February 2008.
Creative Commons
Provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry.
Partnering on Copyright
From JISC-SURF.
The Scholar's Copyright Addendum Engine
This will help you generate a PDF form that you can attach to a journal publisher's copyright agreement to ensure that you retain certain rights.
Scholarly Communications Toolkit
Compiled by Kevin Smith. Includes sample letters, release forms, licenses, and information on when you can digitize information to use in a course management system (TEACH ACT).
Seizing the Moment: Scientists’ Authorship Rights in the Digital Age
A report, prepared by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, calling for authors to use their leverage to negotiate licensing agreements that maximize access to and dissemination of their work.
Balancing Author and Publisher Rights
Suber, Peter. SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #110, June 2, 2007.

University of Iowa Author's Addendum

Peer Review

The Vacuum Shouts Back: Postpublication Peer Review on Social Media
Faulkes, Zen. Neuron, Volume 82, Issue 2, 16 April 2014.
An Open Science Peer Review Oath
Aleksic, Jelena, et al. F1000Research 2014, 3:271.
Is Peer Review in Decline?
Ellison, Glenn. Economic Inquiry, Volume 49, Issue 3, July 2011.
Scientific Peer Review
Bornmann, Lutz. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, Volume 45, Issue 1, 2011.
Abandoning Print, Not Peer Review
Jaschik, Scott. Inside Higher Ed (February 28, 2008).
Peer Review: Debate
From Nature.
Will Open Access Undermine Peer Review?
Suber, Peter. SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #113, September 2, 2007.

Public Access to Research and Data

Article and Data Sharing Requirements by Federal Agency
SPARC's research sharing tool for for tracking, comparing, and understanding U.S. federal agencies’ article and data sharing policies.
Alliance for Taxpayer Access
CIHR's Open Access Policy on Publications
From the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
Confederation of Open Access Repositories
Public Access
From the National Institutes of Health.
Resources on Public Access to Research
Progress toward Public Access to Science
Varmus, Harold. PLoS Biology 6, no. 4 (April 8, 2008).

New Models of Publishing

Is Peer Review in Decline?
Ellison, Glenn. NBER Working Paper (National Bureau of Economic Research), July 2007.
if:book Blog
Institute on the Future of the Book
The Shape of the Scientific Article in the Developing Cyberinfrastructure
Lynch, Clifford. CTWatch Quarterly 3, no. 3 (2007).
Library Publishing Services: Strategies for Success
Mullins, J. L., Murray-Rust, C., Ogburn, J. L., Crow, R., Ivins, O., Mower, A., Nesdill, D., Newton, M. P., Speer, J., & Watkinson, C. 2012. Library Publishing Services: Strategies for Success: Final Research Report. Washington, DC: SPARC.

Journal Costs

Evaluating Big Journal Bundles
Bergstrom, Theodore C., et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 111, no. 26, July 1, 2014.
An Economic Analysis of Scientific Research Publishing
Published by the Wellcome Trust, this is one of the most comprehensive analyses of its kind. It concludes that the publishing of scientific research does not operate in the interests of scientists or the public good, but rather is dominated by a commercial market intent on improving its market position.
Judging Journal Prices: A Cost Index for Academic Journals
Day, Colin. Journal of Scholarly Publishing 41, no. 2, January 2010, pp. 145-162.
Ted Bergstrom's Journal Pricing Page
Ted Bergstrom, economics professor at UC Santa Barbara, maintains this web site about journal pricing.
Trends in Scholarly Journal Prices 2000-2006
This report describes research undertaken by LISU at Loughbrough University to investigate trends in the prices of biomedical and social science journals for eight commercial publishers and three university presses. [Prices in 2007 GBP. 1.00 GPB = 2.00775 USD] (4/17/07)

Library Journal Periodicals Price Survey

Measuring Research Impact

Measuring Impact Guide
UI's guide to measuring scholarly impact.
Scholarly Metrics Guide
Johns Hopkins' guide to scholarly metrics.
altmetrics
An expanded view of scholarly impact, taking into account social media and the web.
Eigenfactor
A rating of the importance of a scientific journal. In a manner similar to Google's PageRank algorithm, journals are rated according to the number of incoming citations, with citations from highly-ranked journals weighted to make a larger contribution to the eigenfactor than those from poorly-ranked journals.
The Eigenfactor Metrics: A Network Approach to Assessing Scholarly Journals
West, Jevin et al. College & Research Libraries 71 no. 3, (May 2010) p. 236-44.
An Index to Quantify an Individual's Scientific Research Output
Developed by J.E. Hirsch from University of California San Diego. PNAS 102 no. 46 (Nov. 2005). H-index: an impact factor of individual scientists, rather than journals.
InCites Journal Citation Reports
ISI Impact Factor: a measure reflecting the average number of citations to articles published in science and social science journals indexed by ISI (available to UI affiliates only).
Scimago Journal Rank
An open access journal metric which is based on journals indexed in Elsevier's Scopus and uses an algorithm similar to Google's PageRank.

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