Busse Library provides this sample of resources available to faculty seeking information, policies, studies, and tools for scholarly communication.
General Information about Scholarly Communication -- Access Policies -- Author Rights: Information and Tools -- Journal Pricing Studies -- Open Access Directories -- Organizations -- Research Funders' Policies -- Resources for Alternative or Open Access Journals
General Information about Scholarly Communication
- Scholarly Communications Toolkit -- Duke University
- Transforming Scholarly Communication -- University of Iowa Libraries
- The University’s Role in the Dissemination of Research and Scholarship – A Call to Action -- Report from the Association of American Universities, Association of Research Libraries, The Coalition for Networked Information, and the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges
- Duke University Open Access Policy
- Harvard University Open Access Policies
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute Public Access Publishing
- MIT Faculty Open Access Policies
- NIH Public Access Policy
- ROARMAP (Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies)
- Stanford University School of Education Open Access Motion
- Wellcome Trust Open Access Policy
Author Rights: Information and Tools
- Author Rights Model License Language
- Author’s Rights, Tout de Suite -- by Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
- Creative Commons copyright licenses and tools
- Retaining Rights To Your Work -- St. Thomas University
- Economic analysis of scientific research publishing -- A report commissioned by the Wellcome Trust
- Journal Cost-Effectiveness 2010 BETA -- Database created by Ted Bergstrom, economist at UCSB, and colleagues
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- OpenDOAR (The Directory of Open Access Repositories)
- Chicago Collaborative -- Working group established in 2008 to promote open communication and education among the primary stakeholders in the scholarly scientific communication area
- CreateChange -- from ARL and SPARC
- HathiTrust -- Partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible
- SHERPA (Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access)
- SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)
- Alliance for Taxpayer @ccess
- JULIET --Service from SHERPA
- MIT Research Funder Policies
Resources for Alternative or Open Access Journals