Scholarly Communication
Scholarly Communications at CARL
WASHINGTON, DC and OTTAWA, NOVEMBER 28, 2006 – SPARC and CARL commend
the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) for the
strength and timeliness of its Draft Policy on Access to Research
Outputs. more...
CARL Response to the CIHR Draft Policy on Access to Research Outputs
more...
CARL Briefing Paper on the CIHR Draft Policy on Access to Research
Outputs more...
SPARC and ARL launch re-tooled Create Change Web site to help faculty fulfill the promise of digitatl scholarship. more...
OTTAWA, July 7, 2006 – The Canadian Association of Research Libraries
(CARL) has endorsed Urgent Action Needed to Preserve Scholarly Electronic
Journals. more...
The Future of Human Resources in Canadian Libraries, ‘the
8Rs Study’: Considerations for the Canadian Association of Research
Libraries, a report by Vicki Whitmell more...
CARL's Brief to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- CIHR Policy in Development - Access to Products of Research more...
CARL's Brief to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council concerning Open Access (November 2005) more...
The UK Inquiry into Scientific Publishing has been released. more...
CARL's Brief to the (UK) Science and Technology Committee’s
Scientific Publications Inquiry (February 2004) more...
National Policies on Open Access (OA) Provision for University
Research Output: an International meeting
held Thursday February 19, 2004 at New College, Southampton University (February
2004) more...
The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting:
Three Years Running
In January 2001, the Open Archives Initiative announced the release of the
Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). The
OAI-PMH was designed... more...
CARL Committee on Scholarly Communication
The CARL Committee on Scholarly Communication was established by
the Board of Directors to provide a continuing focus on scholarly communication
issues as they affect Canadian academic and research libraries. more...
CARL Institutional Repositories Pilot Project Online Resources
Portal
A Canadian initiative to implement institutional repositories at
several Canadian research libraries - ensuring that Canadian institutions
remain at the leading edge of innovation in scholarly publishing. The project
will facilitate discussions of lessons learned and best practices for implementing
IRs and will pave the way for other Canadian universities by examining the
feasibility of IRs in the Canadian context. more...
New International Scholarly Communications Alliance Engages Academics
in Broadening Access to Research
Eight of the world’s principal research library organizations
announced the establishment of the International Scholarly Communications
Alliance (ISCA). The ISCA, an initiative of research library associations
in Australia, Canada, Europe, Japan, Hong Kong SAR, New Zealand, the United
Kingdom and the United States, is an action-oriented global network that
will collaborate with scholars and publishers to establish equitable access
to scholarly and research publications. more...
Create Change
Create Change is a response to the serious crisis in scholarly
communication. A number of factors, chiefly the dramatic increases in journal
costs and the increasing commercialization of scholarly publishing, have
decreased scholars' access to essential research resources all over the
world. more...
Final Report of the AUCC-CARL Task Force - October 1996
This report considers the changing nature of scholarly communication,
explores major options for action, and makes recommendations for follow
up. The report and the recommendations are directed largely at the members
of AUCC and CARL, but there are, we hope, valuable lessons and recommendations
for all players in the Canadian system of scholarly communication. more...
Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) (http://www.soros.org/openaccess/)
The Budapest Open Access Initiative arises from a small but lively meeting
convened in Budapest by the Open Society Institute (OSI) on December 1-2,
2001. The purpose of the meeting was to accelerate progress in the international
effort to make research articles in all academic fields freely available
on the internet. The participants represented many points of view, many
academic disciplines, and many nations, and had experience with many of
the ongoing initiatives that make up the open access movement. more...
BIOMED Central - An alternative to Scholarly Publishing (working
document) - CARL Backgrounder Series #4
BioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing
immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research. This commitment
is based on the view that open access to research is central to rapid and
efficient progress in science and that subscription-based access to research
is hindering rather than helping scientific communication. more...
The Open Archives Initiative - Developing an Interoperability
Framework for Scholarly Publishing - CARL Backgrounder Series #5
The Open Archives Initiative (OAi) (www.openarchives.org) is a collaborative
effort to develop and promote interoperability to facilitate the efficient
dissemination of digital content in the scholarly community. more...
Canadian National Site Licencing Project
The Canadian National Site Licencing Project (CNSLP) is a consortium
of Canadian universities which aims to bolster the national capacity for
research and innovation. CNSLP's goals are to increase the quantity, breadth
and depth of scholarly publications available to Canadian academic researchers,
speed the take-up of electronic publication formats, and leverage Canadian
universities' buying power and influence in the international scholarly
publishing marketplace. This is being accomplished through a coordinated
initiative of Canadian university libraries to licence electronic journals
and research databases, with online access for the academic community. more...
SPARC
SPARC is an alliance of universities, research libraries, and organizations built as a constructive response to market dysfunctions in the scholarly communication system. These dysfunctions have reduced dissemination of scholarship and crippled libraries. SPARC serves as a catalyst for action, helping to create systems that expand information dissemination and use in a networked digital environment while responding to the needs of scholars and academe. more...CARL supports ARL's new "Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition" initiative. more...
SPARC E-News
SPARC E-news provides a monthly update on SPARC's partners activities
and looks at key publishing industry developments that have an impact on
journal publishing. more...
SPARC Europe
SPARC Europe is an alliance of European research libraries, library organizations
and research institutions that supports increased competition in scientific
journal publishing. LIBER serves as the umbrella organization for SPARC
Europe, which facilitates competition in the European scientific journals
marketplace and introduces advocacy initiatives tailored to the European
research and library communities. more...
Other Resources
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
This selective bibliography presents over 2,560 articles, books, and other
printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly
electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. more...
The crisis in scholarly communication: an economic
analysis (February 2002)
Presentation by John Houghton, Victoria University at VALA (Victorian Association
for Library Automation Inc). "E-volving Information Futures" Conference,
Melbourne more...
Houghton, J.W. (2000) Economics of Scholarly Communication:
A Discussion Paper, prepared for the Coalition for Innovation in Scholarly
Communication, more...
BioLine International
Bioline International is a not-for-profit electronic publishing
service committed to providing access to quality research journals published
in developing countries. BI's goal of reducing the South to North knowledge
gap is crucial to a global understanding of health (tropical medicine, infectious
diseases, epidemiology, emerging new diseases), biodiversity, the environment,
conservation and international development. With peer-reviewed journals
from Brazil, Cuba, India, Indonesia, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe
and more to come, BI provides a unique service by making bioscience information
generated in these countries available to the international research community
worldwide. more...
Canadian Electronic Scholarly Network (CESN) Web site
The purpose of this site is to provide a description of the Electronic
Publishing Promotion Project (EPPP) along with related information and provide
information on electronic scholarly publishing, with emphasis on Canadian
products, projects, and sites. more...
E-Prints
Stevan Harnad just made it easy to join him in his quest to free
the scholarly literature. Download Eprints software from the Eprints web
site and build your own repositories quickly and easily. Developed by Harnad
collaborators Robert Tansley and Chris Gutteridge, Eprints provides a web
interface for managing, submitting, discovering, and downloading documents.
more...
New Scientist’s Discussion Forum on Scholarly Communications more...
Open Citation Project
One goal of the Open Citation (OpCit) Project is to integrate and
develop software for reference linking in large open archives. To create
cross-archive services that add value (e.g. linking, indexing, etc.), OAi
data providers need to support a harvesting interface that allows OAi service
providers to periodically poll the archives and access the full-text data
relevant to their end-user services. The need for this capability has become
apparent both from our own experience in developing a reference linking
service and from the work of others (e.g. the UPS Prototype Project). more...
Reframing Scholarly Communications: A Discussion Paper
In January of 1995 the Council of the Canadian Association of University
Teachers (CAUT) approved the Association's Policy on Scholarly Journal Cutbacks.
This document recognizes the reality of journal cancellations in university
libraries as an everyday fact of academic life. It speaks to the need for
wide consultation and care in the cancellation process, and it raises concerns
about the impact of cancellations of less mainstream journals on the research
and teaching process. more...
Scholarly Communication
BUBL LINK catalogue of Internet resources of scholarly communications.
more...
Single Window on Canada's Scholarly Journals—Prototype
The National Research Council of Canada's NRC Research Press, le Centre
Érudit de l'Université de Montréal and the University
of New Brunswick Electronic Text Centre have formed a partnership to make
available through a single Web site every peer-reviewed scholarly journal
in Canada that has an electronic version. more...
