Documentation

Notre Dame

Dimensions of the Macro Library Environment Considered in 2005-06 UCL
      Meetings – Context for UCL Deliberations
Library Materials Budget Reduction Website
Background Information for Libraries Task Force
"Leaving the Big-3" UCL Package Use Sub-Committee report
Document Delivery Task Force Report to UCL
Document Delivery Task Force website
Academic Libraries of Indiana (ALI) Reciprocal Borrowing Program
Strategic Perspectives on Library Issues: University Committee on Libraries Annual Report for 2005-06

General Interest Links

Why do scholarly journals cost so much?
Monograph and Serial Costs 1986-2001
The Crisis in Scholarly Communication: Impact and Solutions
Google Scholar
Several US Universities Threaten to Cancel Subscriptions to Elsevier Journals
MLA Ad Hoc Committee on the Future of Scholarly Publishing
Scholarly Societies CAN Negotiate Price Reductions
Journal of Algorithms Resignation from Elsevier
The State of the Large Publisher Bundle: Findings from an ARL Member Survey

Open Access

Introduction
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy

Alternative Publishing

Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Project Euclid
BioMed Central
BioOne

Institutional Repositories

Why?
How?
Example (Cogprints)
Example (x-Archive)

Digitization Projects

ARTstor
Carnegie Mellon's Universal Library
Google Library Project
NYT Google Article
JSTOR
Cornell Historical Math Monographs

Faculty Resolutions

Cornell
Cornell Press Release
Stanford
Connecticut
Others