More Resources on Scholarly Communication

ARL Office of Scholarly Communication
One of the ARL's strategic goals for 2005-2009 is the development of effective, extensible, sustainable, and economically viable models of scholarly communication that provide barrier-free access to quality information. The ARL Office of Scholarly Communication works to create new models for scholarly exchange that build on the widespread adoption of digital technologies and networking for research, teaching, and learning.

Create Change
In the age of the Internet, the ways you share and use academic research results are changing — rapidly, fundamentally, irreversibly. There’s great potential in change. But will the promise of digital scholarship be fully realized? This website from ARL/SPARC will help you understand the changing landscape and how it affects you and your research. It also offers practical ways to look out for your own interests as a researcher.

Reshaping Scholarly Communication
The University of California's scholars and their partners across the academy are reshaping scholarly communication. Understand the challenges, the crises they have produced, and opportunities to address them.

Scholarly Communication
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign launched this site in spring of 2005 as a practical resource for the U of Illinois scholarly community. It is intended to provide a basic overview of the key issues affecting the scholarly communication system, and to suggest measures that U of Illinois scholars can take to help create a better system.

Scholarly Communication Toolkit
An Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) toolkit designed to support advocacy efforts that work toward changing the scholarly communication system and to provide information on scholarly communication issues for librarians, faculty, academic administrators, and other campus stakeholders.

Scholary Publication: Retaining Rights & Increasing the Impacts of Research
The MIT Libraries created this site to assist MIT faculty and researchers who have questions about their options and rights in the world of scholarly publishing, and to underscore the collaborative process being engaged in by the entire academic community to realize the full potential of technology to increase the reach and impact of research.

Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
SPARC is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system. Developed by the Association of Research Libraries, SPARC has become a catalyst for change. Action by SPARC in collaboration with stakeholders builds on the unprecedented opportunities created by the networked digital environment to advance the conduct of scholarship.

Transforming Scholarly Communication and Libraries
Scholarly communication is fast approaching a crossroads because current methods of scholarly communication are increasingly restrictive and are economically unsustainable. The purposes of this Web page are to inform Cornell faculty of some of the key issues that drive the debates over scholarly communication, and to suggest action that faculty might consider to support needed changes.

UW-Madison Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing seeks to improve access to scholarly communications for the common good, championing sustainable, open access models, and digitally publishing scholarly research and works in collaboration with academic communities of the University and beyond.