This web page contains links to a few informational resources pertaining to the University of Oregon libraries and to publishing. This page was prepared by Anthony Hornof on 3/6/01. The text and links are in part derived from emails from Deb Carver, Sheila Gray, and other library staff.
Create Change is a website that discusses a range of issues dealing with scholarly publishing, including the increasing volume and costs of scholarly resources, particularly journal literature. Many campuses are engaging their faculty in discussing strategies to improve access, control costs, and create a system that meets current as well as future research needs.
Managing Your Copyrights is a page at the Create Change website that provides some information and guidance that could help you to ensure that you and other researchers in the academic community retain access to your work.
This open letter written by a diverse group of scientists supports the establishment of an online public library that would provide the full contents of the published record of research and scholarly discourse in medicine and the life sciences. The letter is interesting and getting a lot of attention from faculty in many institutions.
The AAU and Association of Research Libraries sponsored a conference in March, 2000, to establish a set of Principles for Emerging Systems of Scholarly Publishing that could shape the future of scholarly communication. This document is evidently getting a lot of discussion at the President/Provost level here at the UofO.
The 11/3/00 New York Times article "As Publishers Perish, Libraries Feel the Pain" is a good summary of several issues around scholarly publishing. The arcticle points out that, even for libraries whose budgets are being increased such as at New York University, "librarians are still slashing their serials and book buying just to meet the sharply rising cost of scholarly journals in fields like science, technology, medicine, law and economics." The article states:
Science and technical journals have become a case study in the publishing industry's growing consolidation. Until the 1960's, scores of smaller companies and nonprofit organizations published the vast majority of journals. Since then, a handful of companies led by Reed Elsevier have acquired the bulk of them and have aggressively raised subscription prices.
Electronic Computer Science Journals currently available at UofO. Many of theses links are just pointers into the ACM digital library.
All Electronic Journals currently available at UofO.