| Association
of Research Libraries <http://www.arl.org/index.html> |
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At the forefront of academia with respect
to addressing scholarly communications issues, ARL's
mission is "influencing the changing environment
of scholarly communication and the public policies
that affect research libraries and the communities
they serve." See especially their "Issues
in Scholarly Communication" <http://www.arl.org/scomm/>.
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| Association
of College and Research Libraries - Scholarly Communications
<http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/scholarlycomm/scholarlycommunication.htm> |
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"ACRL is committed to working to reshape
the current system of scholarly communication, focusing
in the areas of education, advocacy, coalition building
and research. In January 2002, ACRL launched its Scholarly
Communication initiative, with goals of creating increased
access to scholarly information; fostering cost-effective
alternative means of publishing, especially those
that take advantage of electronic information technologies;
and encouraging scholars to assert greater control
over scholarly communications." See especially,
"Principles
and Strategies for the Reform of Scholarly Communication"
a foundation statement that provides overall guidance
to the ACRL scholarly communications initiative. |
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| Create
Change <http://www.createchange.org/home.html>
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Create Change "seeks to address the
crisis in scholarly communication by helping scholars
regain control of the scholarly communication system"
by "mak[ing] scholarly research as accessible
as possible to scholars all over the world, to their
students, and to others who might derive value from
it." Create change is the advocacy arm of its
co-sponsors with respect to scholarly communications:
the Association of Research Libraries, Association
of College and Research Libraries, and SPARC. |
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| Open
Access Working Group (OAWG) <http://www.arl.org/sparc/oa/oawg.html> |
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The Open Access Working Group (OAWG), initiated
by SPARC, is a group of like-minded organizations
that began meeting in the Fall of 2003 to build a
framework 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. |
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| International
Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication
(ICAAP) <http://www.icaap.org/> |
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"The International Consortium for the Advancement
of Academic Publication is a research and development
organization devoted to the advancement of electronic
scholarly communication. Our mission includes technological
support, publication, and enhancement of scholarly
journals and educational resources, with the goals
of greater accessibility, recognition and communication
within the academic community.
ICAAP specializes in developing technology for
the delivery of scholarly content. This technology
includes the development of SGML markup systems,
conversion utilities for transferring legacy documents
to SGML and program filters for transferring ICAAP
SGML documents into HTML, PDF and other formats.
ICAAP also develops software for journal management
and publication. Databases are key components of
most ICAAP solutions.
In addition to providing services to scholars wishing
to start their own independent scholarly journals,
ICAAP maintains a database of free scholarly journals
and resources."
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| International
Scholarly Communications Alliance (ISCA). <http://www.anu.edu.au/caul/cisc/isca/> |
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Described as "an action-oriented global
network that will collaborate with scholars and publishers
to establish equitable access to scholarly and research
publications.The ISCA - whose members represent over
600 research libraries worldwide - will engage in
a series of activities that focus the scholarly publishing
process on the primary goals of the academic research
community, advancing the discovery of new knowledge
and facilitating its dissemination. Through sharing
expertise on scholarly communications issues, these
organizations, whose total library budgets equal over
US$5 billion and which serve well over 11 million
students and faculty, will be prepared to act as a
unified body in creating policies and taking actions
that advance these goals." |
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| SHERPA
(Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation
and Access) <http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/> |
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"SHERPA is investigating issues in
the future of scholarly communication and publishing.
In particular, it is developing open-access institutional
repositories in a number of research universities.
These eprint repositories or archives facilitate the
worldwide rapid and efficient dissemination of research
findings." |
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| SPARC
[Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition]
<http://www.arl.org/sparc/> |
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SPARC is "an alliance of
academic and research libraries and organizations
working to correct market dysfunctions in the scholarly
publishing system. Developed by the Association of
Research Libraries, SPARC has become a catalyst for
change. Its pragmatic focus is to facilitate the emergence
of systems that capitalize on the networked environment
to disseminate research. Its strategies expand competition
and support open access to address the high and rising
cost of scholarly journals, especially in science,
technology, and medicine--a trend which inhibits the
advancement of scholarship." |
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