IDR Webliography

Enabling Cross-resource Communication. ARTSTOR [Newsletter] v.5, Fall 2005, p.2. http://www.artstor.org/info/news/issue5.pdf. Accessed May 30, 2006.

ARTstor is developing a new SRU-based XML gateway for use with Metalib, CSA, and others, and will be piloting this in fall 2005.

Blackwell Publishing and author self-archiving. http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/static/selfarchive.asp. Accessed Feb. 17, 2006.

Open access policy statement for Blackwell Publishing.

Boston College -- Institutional Repositories and Self Archiving. http://www.bc.edu/libraries/about/scholcomm/s-repositories/. Accessed Apr. 3, 2006.

A list of general resources and articles, examples of repositories and archives, and resources about starting a repository.

Coleman, Anita. "Self-Archiving and the Copyright Transfer Agreements of ISI-Ranked Library and Information Science Journals." 2006. http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/1041/

The author's abstract:

A study of ISI ranked Library and Information Science (LIS) journals (n=52) is reported. The study examined the stances of publishers as expressed in the Copyright Transfer Agreements (CTAs) of the journals towards self-archiving, the practice of depositing digital copies of one's works, preferably in an OAI-compliant open access repository.

Results show that 62 % (32) do not make their CTAs available on the open web; 38 % (20) do. Of the 38 % that have CTAs available, two are open access journals. Even among the 20 journal CTAs publicly available a high level of ambiguity exists. Of the 62 % that do not have a public CTA, 40 % are silent about self-archiving. Closer examination augmented by publisher policy documents on copyright, self-archiving, and author instructions, reveals that only five, 10% of the ISI-ranked LIS journals, actually prohibit self-archiving by publisher rule.

Copyright transfer agreements are a moving target and publishers appear to be acknowledging that copyright and open access can co-exist in the scholarly journal publishing arena. Given the ambivalence of journal publishers, the communities might be better off by self-archiving in open access archives and strategically building an LIS information commons through a society-led global scholarly communication consortium.

The aggregation of OAI-compliant archives and development of disciplinary-specific library services for an LIS commons has the potential to increase the field's research impact and visibility besides ameliorating its own scholarly communication and publishing systems, and serving as a model for others.

Drake, Miriam A. "Institutional repositories: hidden treasures." Searcher, 12, no. 5 (2004), in InfoTrac Web, General BusinessFile ASAP, accessed Sept. 19, 2005.

Many campuses, and indeed libraries, are getting in the business of their own scholarly publishing initiatives. Repositories can serve as marketing tools for a university by disseminating research done by faculty that might not otherwise be available. The article cited several repositories now in production, and listed key issues to which developers should be mindful. The Drake article provides a concise synopsis of what an IR is: its use, scope application, software options and types of access to materials. Key issues for consideration and requirements for success are discussed. Outcomes of collaborative, global implementation and the effect on scholarly publication are given. This growing segment of digital access and preservation provides opportunity for collaboration and leadership between libraries and campus faculty.

Foster, Nancy Fried and Susan Gibbons. "Understanding Faculty to Improve Content Recruitment for Institutional Repositories." D-Lib Magazine, vol. 11, no. 1 (Jan. 2005) http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january05/foster/01foster.html

Referenced in a session with Terry Ehling, Director, Center for Innovative Publishing, Cornell University, Oct. 10, 2005

Helfer, Doris Small. "Is the big deal dead? Status of the crisis in scholarly publishing. (Leading Libraries)" Searcher 12, n. 3 (2004), in InfoTrac Web, General BusinessFile ASAP, accessed Sept. 19, 2005.

The Helfer article discusses the crisis in scholarly publishing in the impact of pricing on institutions. This is heavy on the economic aspects, but there are planning aspects given as well. Two case studies are provided: Cornell and the University of California system. Open access is mentioned as alternative to the escalating costs of journal publication and leadership opportunities in communicating the status of scholarly journal publishing to campus faculty are cited as well as leading the move to an affordable alternative. During this time of change in model for acquiring publications (jobber-to-open access) it is important for the librarian to serve as a change leader for the campus as well as the staff within. SPARC strategy is mentioned specifically in this article.

Institutional Repositories. SPEC Kit 292. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, 2006. ISBN: 1-59407-708-8 http://www.arl.org/spec/SPEC292web.pdf, accessed August 29, 2006.

"This document presents the results of a thirty-eight-question survey of 123 ARL members in early 2006 about their institutional repositories practices and plans. The survey response rate was 71% (87 out of 123 ARL members responded). The front matter and nine-page Executive Summary are freely available." DigitalKoans, http://www.escholarlypub.com/digitalkoans/category/e-prints/, accessed August 29, 2006.

Lynch, Clifford A. and Joan K. Lippincott. "Institutional Repository Deployment in the United States as of Early 2005." D-Lib Magaine, vol. 11, no. 9 (Sept. 2005) http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september05/lynch/09lynch.html

A "big picture" summary of institutional repositories

MIT. Copyright at MIT. http://web.mit.edu/ist/topics/security/copyright/. Accessed May 8, 2006.

MIT Policies and Guidelines, plus links to resources on copyright law and related topics

National Science Digital Library. Best Practices for Shareable Metadata. http://oai-best.comm.nsdl.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PublicTOC. Accessed Nov. 20, 2006.

From the introduction. Throughout we have tried to offer specific, concrete best practices and guidelines whenever possible. However, certain sections do present either a range of choices or a spectrum of best practices from ideal to acceptable. These often represent an acknowledgement of the diversity and range of capabilities within the OAI community, and, in some cases, areas where a best practice has not clearly evolved.

Peter Suber's Open Access News. Blog. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html. Accessed Feb. 17, 2006.

Recommended resource for IDR folks who are interested in following developments in the open access movement.

University of Texas. The UT System Crash Course in Copyright. http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/Intellectualproperty/cprtindx.htm

Covers topics such as fair use, ownership, creating multimedia, copyright in the digital library, and copyright management

Weindling, Nelson. "Open Access Tools." http://www.library.nd.edu/idr/documents/OpenAccessTools.pdf. Presented at IDR Team meeting.

A list of Web resouces about open access.

Wittenberg, Kate, "Beyond Google: What Next for Publishing?" The Chronicle of Higher Education, v52, Issue 41, p B20. June 16, 2006. http://chronicle.com/weekly/v52/i41/41b02001.htm. Accessed August 29, 2006.

[S]tudents have been quietly revolutionizing the discovery and use of information. Their behavior, undertaken without consultation or attendance at formal academic events, urgently forces those of us in scholarly publishing to confront some fundamental questions about our organizations, jobs, and assumptions about our work.

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