Scholarly Communication: Tools

Scholarly Communication:
Tools

These links are to tools to help understand the current status of issues related to scholarly communications and open access to research.

SPARC FAQ on the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006 (FRPAA).
FRPAA is a bipartisan Senate bill sponsored by Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Joe Lieberman (D-CT). SPARC provides information for University Administrators and Faculty including potential impact and how to support the bill.

ACRL Scholarly Communication Toolkit
The Association of College and Research Libraries has developed this Toolkit to help administrators, faculty and librarians understand the key issues, the impact of these issues, and strategies to work for change in scholarly communication. Many references and links to other resources provide access to in-depth discussions about scholarly communication and open access issues.

ARL - Issues in Scholarly Communication
Information and perspectives from the Association of Research Libraries.

Directory of Open Access Journals
"The Directory of Open Access Journals covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages."

Directory of Open Access Repositories
OpenDOAR supports the rapidly emerging movement towards Open Access to research Information. " Open DOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. Each Open DOAR repository has been visited by project staff to check the information that is recorded here. This in-depth approach does not rely on automated analysis and gives a quality-controlled list of repositories."

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
"Selected English-language articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet."

Bergstom and McAfee's Journal Cost Effectiveness Search
The 2006 beta verion of a tool that calculates "price per article and price per citation for about 5000 academic journals." The earlier version of this tool is available from a link on this page.

Ted Bergstom's Journal Pricing Page
Analysis of contemporary journal pricing in the field of economics.

The Implications of Information Technology for Scientific Journal Publishing: A Literature Review (pdf)

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See also: Scholary Communication: Background and Overview
Scholary Communication: Resolutions
Scholarly Communication: Resources

For further information on these issues, please contact Kay Vyhnanek, Scholarly Communication Librarian, kayv@wsu.edu or 509-335-9514