SUNY and Ongoing Changes to Scholarly Communication
John Schumacher
SUNY Office of Library and Information Services
Overview
• Background Information
• Open Archives Initiative
• Open Access Journals
• BioMed Central
• Open Archives
• SUNY Digital Repository
• Next Steps / Librarian Roles
Background
• Crises?
• Change
• Convergence
Responses to Changes in Scholarly Communication
• Open Archives Initiative
• Open Access Journals
• Open Archives– Discipline-based– Institution-based
•Open Archives Initiative
• http://www.openarchives.org/
•OAI-PMH Service Providerhttp://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/
•Open Access Journals
• http://www.doaj.org
•Open Access Journals
• http://www.biomedcentral.com/
•Open Archives - Discipline-based
• http://www.arxiv.org/
• http://www.repec.org/
• http://cogprints.org/
Institutional Repositories
• “Digital collections capturing and preserving the intellectual output of a single or multi-university community” The Case for Institutional Repositories: A SPARC Position Paper
Institutional Repositories
•Open Archives - Institution-based
• http://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/
•SUNY Digital Repository
•Publisher’s Policies
• http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php
•Publisher’s Policies
•Author’s Addendum
• http://www.arl.org/sparc/author/addendum.html
• Retain rights to self-archive, etc.
•SUNY Digital Repository
• ETDs
• Visual Resources
• Scholarly Content
Next Steps
• SUNY-wide Consultation/Committee Content Policies Filling IR
New/Continuing Roles for SUNY Librarians
• Collection Development
• Faculty Liaison
• Metadata
• Copyright
• Digital Library Skills
• User Interface Development
What You Can Do
• Learn More
• Discuss Issues
• Reveal Content
• Committee Work
• Support Resolutions/Other Initiatives
•Resources
• Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition http://www.arl.org/sparc/index.html
• SUNY Digital Repository http://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/
• Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/
• BioMed Central http://www.biomedcentral.com
• Open Archives Initiative http://www.openarchives.org/
•Resources continued
• Publisher’s Policies on Self-Archiving http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php
• Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/
• Open Access News http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html
• The effect of open access and downloads ('hits') on citation impact: a bibliography of studies http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html
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