Because existing models of publishing put at serious risk
scholarly communication, academic organizations, librarians,
and scholars are joining together to create change in how
scholarly publishing is created, evaluated, accessed, and
distributed. Principal areas of advocacy include:
Organized Advocacy Efforts
Create Change
organizes advocacy in scholarly communications for its co-sponsors,
the Association of Research Libraries (ARL),
Association of College and Research Libraries(ACRL), and
SPARC (see Organizations
and Initiatives), and provides an advocacy
kit for this purpose.
The Association of College and Research Libraries provides
this Scholarly
Communication Toolkit to help administrators, faculty,
and librarians bring about needed changes.
The Open Access Working Group (OAWG),
organized by SPARC (see Organizations
and Initiatives) is organized for "collective advocacy
of open access to research. The group seeks to build broad-based
recognition that the economic and societal benefits of scientific
and scholarly research investments are maximized through
open access to the results of that research. OAWG aims to
bring about changes within stakeholder institutions enabling
viable open access models to be widely and successfully
implemented and accepted." <http://www.arl.org/sparc/oa/oawg.html>
