Other Scholarly Communication

Resources of Interest

Digital Collections Registry
Digital Library Federation (DLF)
The DLF Collections Registry is a collaboration among the University of Illinois Library, and the Digital Library Federation, a consortium of libraries and related agencies that are pioneering the use of electronic-information technologies to extend collections and services.

Ithaka Report: "University Publishing in a Digital Age"
By Laura Brown, Rebecca Griffiths, and Matthew Rascoff
July 23, 2007

MLA Report on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion
Modern Language Association
December 7, 2006

"Reshaping the World of Scholarly Communication -- Open Access and the Free Online Scholarship Movement: Open Access Statements, Proposals, Declarations, Principles, Strategies, Organizations, Projects, Campaigns, Initiatives, and Related Items -- A Webliography"
Compiled by Paul G. Haschak
Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship, vol. 7, no.1 (Spring 2006)

"Scholarly Communication: Academic Values and Sustainable Models"
By C. Judson King, Diane Harley, Sarah Earl-Novell, Jennifer Arter, Shannon Lawrence, and Irene Perciali
Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley
September 2006
Research & Occasional Paper Series: CSHE.13.06

"Scholarly Communication Education Initiatives"
By Kathleen A. Newman, Deborah D. Blecic, and Kimberly L. Armstrong
Association of Research Libraries SPEC Kit 299
August 2007

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
Compiled by Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography (SEPB) presents selected English-language articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. The bibliography is now in its 69th revision.

"Self-Publish or Perish? The Implications of Digital Book Production"
By Howard Fenton
The Seybold Report
March 8, 2007