About Scholarly Communication
'Scholarly communication is the system through which research and other scholarly writings are created, evaluated for quality, disseminated to the scholarly community, and preserved for future use. The system includes both formal means of communication, such as publication in peer-reviewed journals, and informal channels, such as electronic listservs.'
--ACRL (Association of College and Research Libraries). (2003). Principles and strategies for the reform of scholarly communication 1. Retrieved from http://www.ala.org/acrl/publications/whitepapers/principlesstrategies/
Recommended Readings
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Open and Equitable Scholarly Communications: Creating a More Inclusive FutureThis report by the Association of College & Research Libraries is an action-oriented research agenda that encourages the community to make the scholarly communications system more open, inclusive, and equitable by outlining trends, encouraging practical actions, and clearly identifying the most strategic research questions to pursue.
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Ten Hot Topics around Scholarly PublishingAbstract: The changing world of scholarly communication and the emerging new wave of ‘Open Science’ or ‘Open Research’ has brought to light a number of controversial and hotly debated topics. Evidence-based rational debate is regularly drowned out by misinformed or exaggerated rhetoric, which does not benefit the evolving system of scholarly communication. This article aims to provide a baseline evidence framework for ten of the most contested topics, in order to help frame and move forward discussions, practices, and policies. We address issues around preprints and scooping, the practice of copyright transfer, the function of peer review, predatory publishers, and the legitimacy of ‘global’ databases. These arguments and data will be a powerful tool against misinformation across wider academic research, policy and practice, and will inform changes within the rapidly evolving scholarly publishing system.
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Open Divide by
Call Number: Z286.O63 O66 2018ISBN: 9781634000291Publication Date: 2018-04-01This book brings together seventeen short critical studies by scientists and librarians from different continents, all interested in open access, most of them supporting and accompanying the open access projects and initiatives since many years, each one with the motivation to better understand (and make understood) the ongoing transformation of scientific communication. Some topics: the discursive staging of open access, mis/trusting open access, the promise of reducing digital divide, open access and the Global South, business models of open access, predatory publishing, open access as a symbolic gift.
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A Statement by the Provosts of the Big Ten Academic Alliance"Sustaining Values and Scholarship" is an open letter by the Provosts of the Big Ten Academic Alliance which argues for "sustaining and advancing equitable modes of sharing knowledge."
OA and the Global South
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AmeliCAAmeli, Conocimiento Abierto (Open Knowledge) (AmeliCA) is a communication infrastructure for scholarly publishing and open science. This initiative is sustained cooperatively centred on the non-profit publishing model to preserve the scholarly and open nature of scientific communication.
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The OA interviews: Arianna Becerril-García, Chair of AmeliCAA professor in the School of Political and Social Sciences at the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico (UAEM), Arianna Becerril-García is also the Executive Director of Redalyc, the Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America and the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal. Redalyc is a regional open access portal for the social sciences and humanities that indexes 1,305 local journals and hosts the full texts of more than 650,000 articles.
- Read-and-Publish Open Access deals are heightening global inequalities in access to publicationOne of the most significant impacts of Plan S (the drive to initiate an open access transition in scholarly publishing) has been to accelerate interest in national level read-and-publish deals. Whilst these deals have streamlined open access provision in the Global North, Jefferson Pooley argues that they lock in and exacerbate existing inequalities in scholarly publishing, by establishing and entrenching a two-tier system of scholarly publishing based on access to funds needed to meet publishing charges.
Scholarly Communication Resources and Tools
- Tools and Innovations in Scholarly CommunicationDatabase containing hundreds of tools for scholarly communication organized according to phase of the scholarly communication cycle (e.g., discovery, publication, assessment).
- Sherpa/RoMEODatabase of publisher's copyright and self-archiving policies. Search by journal to determine your publisher's default copyright policies.
- Scholar's Copyright Addendum EngineUse this engine to build an addendum to publishers' copyright transfer agreements in order to retain certain rights.
- USD Copyright BasicsVisit this page to find information on copyright at USD.
- Core Competencies for Scholarly Communication LibrariansThe following Core Competencies for Scholarly Communication Librarians were developed out of research and discussion conducted by the NASIG Scholarly Communication Core Competencies Task Force.