Dissemination, Access, and Preservation of Scholarly Information: A System in Flux

Creation of a system of scholarly communication that fully meets the needs of current and future researchers, teachers, and students requires the active cooperation of faculty, librarians, and publishers. We encourage the university community to learn with us about these issues. Working together, we can create change.

• SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics) is a new publishing model coming out of the High Energy Physics community. The Dean of KU Libraries signed a statement of interest in support of this innovative model.
• National Institutes of Health (NIH) revises its Public Access Policy and requirements for all grant recipients. See KU's Office of Research Integrity's site, http://www.rcr.ku.edu/nih_public_access_policy/ for more information.
• Copyright Symposium-- held March 7, 2008, post symposium wrap-up, hand outs, slides and more.
• Science Commons, SPARC Announce New Tools for Scholarly Publishing
• Petition to EC on Public Access to Research: for further information on the petition, and to sign it, please go to: http://www.ec-petition.eu
• Information Access Alliance Takes Action on Proposed Wiley Acquisition of Blackwell
• KU joins Portico, a service offering a permanent archive of electronic scholarly journals
• GWLA Provost Letter on Open Access Legislation, signed by Richard Lariviere, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor, University of Kansas
• Open Letter to the Higher Education Community in support of the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006 (FRPAA), signed by twenty-five provosts
• An Open Letter to All University Presidents and Provosts Concerning Increasingly Expensive Journals, by Theodore Bergstrom and R. Preston McAfee;
• KU University Council Passes Resolution on Access to Scholarly Information
• Introducing KU ScholarWorks
• Addendum to Authors' Publication Contracts: A simple form that authors can attach to their publication contracts to reserve rights for depositing in a local repository or posting on a web site. Approved by the KU General Counsel
• Directory of Open Access Repositories: DOAR

Principles for a better system

Resources and tools for action: What KU faculty can do

Initiatives to create change

Background information on scholarly communications: crisis and reform

Libraries in a changing system

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