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Murphy Library UW-L

Ebbinghouse, C. (2005, March). Open Access: The Battle for Universal, Free Knowledge. Searcher, 13(3), 8-17.

• Even with small budget increases, Murphy Library is no longer able to support traditional print access to scholarly communication through journal subscriptions alone.
   
• We are NOT alone – even major research libraries such as Harvard and Cornell are canceling periodicals.
   
• When choosing where to publish, consider licensing agreements, alternative publishers, institutional- and self-archiving as described in the PowerPoint presentation and the links below.
  
• Between 1986 and 2001, journal prices overall increased by 8.5%/year.
   
• Between 1986 and 2001, the CPI overall grew by 3.4%/year.
   
• Journal prices grew twice as fast as health care prices during the same period.

Consolidation among publishers is also pushing journal pricing upwards.  The Information Access Alliance is advocating anti-trust legislation to protect the public interest in research.

Additional Resources

Control Your Copyright (from UW-Madison Libraries Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing)
Important information about how you can retain copyright to your scholarly work, including sample contracts and addenda.

An Open Letter to All University Presidents and Provosts Concerning Increasingly Expensive Journals by Theodore Bergstrom and R. Preston McAfee

Journal Cost-Effectiveness Database
Use this database to see if the journal to which you're thinking of submitting a manuscript is cost-effective.

The High Cost of Scholarly Journals (and What to Do About It)
Published article from Change magazine by Richard Edwards and David Shulenburger.

Brave Initiative: FSU Professor Resigns from Editorial List to Protest Pricing Policies

SPARC: Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition

Create Change
A resource for faculty and librarian action to reclaim scholarly communication.

Academic Journal Policy Database
A database (maintained by the University of Cincinnati) containing publisher policies on their academic journals.  A good place for authors to visit to compare publisher policies regarding copyright, archive rights, etc.

Project RoMEO (Rights MEtadata for Open Archiving)
Self-archiving terms from many publishers.

Sample Publishing Agreement Language
(from the Scholarly Communication Center at NCSU Libraries Learning and Research Center for the Digital Age)

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
by Charles W. Bailey
A selective bibliography of over 1,800 articles, books, and other sources regarding scholarly electronic publishing efforts since 1996.

Collections of Open Access Journals/Dissertations/Theses

BioMed Central* Breaking News: Springer Acquires BioMed Central

Directory of Open Access Journals

Public Library of Science

PubMed Central

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)

Institutional Archives

Setting up an institutional e-print archive
Published article from Ariadne by Stephen Pinfield, Mike Gardner and John MacColl.

E-Scholarship Repository

CODA: Caltech Collection of Open Digital Archives

Open Archives Initiative

Open Repository
a service provided by BioMed Central for institutions and research organizations. Open Repository offers professional help to institutions to quickly and easily build, launch, maintain, and populate their own repositories.