What’s New?: National Institute of Health Deposit Requirements

On January 11, 2008, in response to an act of Congress, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a revision of its Public Access Policy. Effective April 7, 2008, the agency requires investigators to deposit their articles stemming from NIH funding in the NIH online archive. See additional background on requirements, compliance, and available help from Fondren.

Current Rice University Initiatives

• Rice Digital Scholarship Archive -- institutional repository using DSpace (http://dspace.rice.edu/community-list)
  

• Some Key Points about Institutional Repositories
  • · Stable: the IR gives your paper a URL that will never break--in 20 years, a citation to your paper will still use the same link.
  • · The server will be maintained: the whole business of libraries is to develop and maintain collections, and we have a commitment to the IR.
  • · We have access control: the people you want to be able to see your paper can see it, and others will not have access.
  • · Better visibililty: Google searches for material in IR's and puts them higher in results lists.

• Rice University Repositories for Technical Papers
  (http://www.explore.rice.edu/explore/Paper_Repositories1.asp?SnID=1396758221)

• Fondren Library Memberships--many of these support open access or alternative funding initiatives
  
• (http://library.rice.edu/about/admin_org/membership-affiliations)
  

Websites Exploring the Crisis in Scholarly Communications

• Creating Change (http://www.createchange.org) Create Change was developed by the Association of Research Library and SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and is supported by the Association of College and Research Libraries.

• Cornell: Transforming Scholarly Communication (http://www.library.cornell.edu/scholarlycomm/)

• Stanford
  (http://library.stanford.edu/scholarly_com/)

• University of California, San Francisco (http://www.library.ucsf.edu/research/scholcomm/scholcommatrisk.html)
  

Issues

Serial Pricing

• News from Fondren article discusses the importance of Fondren's Electronic Journal collection and the expenses involved. (Kerry Keck, Spring 2002)
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• New Funding Models

• BioMedCentral: open-access, peer reviewed journals in life and physical sciences are published exclusively online. The contributing author's institution defers all publication costs on a per-article basis.
  

• SCOAP: A consortium facilitates Open Access publishing in High Energy Physics by re-directing subscription money. This answers the request of the High Energy Physics community.

Copyright

Resources for Authors - SPARC (http://www.arl.org/sparc/author/)

Know Your Copy Rights (http://www.knowyourcopyrights.org/resourcesfac/kycrbrochure.shtml)

Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving

• Project Sherpa maintains a list of publishers and their policies on copyright and self-archiving.
  
• (http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php?all=yes)

Electronic Publications and Promotion and Tenure

• Modern Language Association Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion. Report.
• (http://www.mla.org/tenure_promotion) Last accessed April 8, 2008.
  
• Neely, Teresa Y. The Impact of Electronic Publications on Promotion and Tenure Decisions. http://www.arl.org/diversity/leading/issue10.tneely.html (see LI 10 in right hand column). Last accessed April 8, 2008.
• Sweeney, Aldrine. Should You Publish in Electronic Journals? Journal of Electronic Publishing vol. 6(2) December 2000.
• http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/06-02/sweeney.html Last accessed April 8, 2008.
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Bibliography & Links

• Bailey, Charles W., Jr. Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. (http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html)

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