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If you are interested in doing this, we would be pleased to discuss a discount. Please e-mail [email protected] or telephone +44 (0) 1223 891358. Scholarly Communication for Librarians H M EATHER ORRISON Chandos Publishing Oxford · Cambridge · New Delhi Chandos Publishing TBAC Business Centre Avenue 4 Station Lane Witney Oxford OX28 4BN UK Tel: +44 (0) 1993 848726 E-mail: [email protected] www.chandospublishing.com Chandos Publishing is an imprint of Woodhead Publishing Limited Woodhead Publishing Limited Abington Hall Granta Park Great Abington Cambridge CB21 6AH UK www.woodheadpublishing.com First published in 2009 ISBN: 978 1 84334 488 9 © Heather Morrison, 2009 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. All rights reserved. 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No reader or purchaser should act on the basis of material contained in this publication without first taking professional advice appropriate to their particular circumstances. Any screenshots in this publication are the copyright of the website owner(s), unless indicated otherwise. Typeset in the UKby Concerto. Printed in the UK and USA. About the author Heather Morrison is very well known as a passionate advocate of open access and transformative change in scholarly communication. A professional librarian, Heather lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, where she works as a project coordinator with BC Electronic Library Network, a consortium of post-secondary libraries across the province (and the Yukon territory). She is also a member of the adjunct faculty at the University of British Columbia’s School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, where she has developed and taught courses on scholarly communication and open access. Heather received her MLIS from the University of Alberta in 1998. Her understanding of the need for change in scholarly communication began with her first professional experiences, as volunteer and then staff with the Knowledge Network project of the Alberta Library. Negotiating purchase of electronic resources for all types of libraries across the province, and sometimes around the country, is a great way to learn about the disparities in access to knowledge, even in a wealthy region, and the significant limitations on abilities to provide access, even to core resources, at even the best resourced of research libraries. Heather has pursued open access advocacy through participation in listservs and preparing resolutions, ix Scholarly Communication for Librarians responses to open access consultations, position papers and education pieces for her library associations (the British Columbia Library Association and the Canadian Library Association). She is on the governance team of E-LIS, the Open Archive for Library and Information Studies, and served as the founding editor, theory/research, for the open access journal Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Studies and Research. Links to many of Heather’s publications, presentations and ongoing works can be found through her scholarly blog, the Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics (http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com). Heather can be contacted via e-mail at heatherm@ eln.bc.ca or [email protected]. x Acknowledgements The inspiration for this book came from a class on scholarly communication that I developed and taught at the University of British Columbia’s School of Library, Archival and Information Studies in the winter of 2008–2009. Thank you, SLAIS, for giving me the opportunity to teach, something that I have wanted to do for many years; thanks also for the enthusiasm and great ideas of the students who took the course. Many thanks to Mark Jordan for reading the whole book for me, and providing helpful advice throughout the process. I would also like to acknowledge the many people who helped me with the book by reading and commenting on one or more chapters, including Peter Suber, Alma Swan, Ian Song, Denise Koufogiannakis, Subbiah Arunachalam, Anita Cocchia, Leslie Chan, Joanne Newyear-Ramirez, Andrew Waller, Joy Kirchner, Gordon Coleman, Barbara Kirsop, Jean-Claude Guédon, Leslie Rimmer, Dana Morrison, Brian Owen, Devon Greyson, Kathleen Shearer and Melissa Hagemann. xi List of acronyms A2K Access to Knowledge ACRL Association of College and Research Libraries ACS American Chemical Society AI article influence ALPSP Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers ANR Agence Nationale de la Recherche APF article processing fee ARL Association of Research Libraries BBB Budapest, Bethesda and Berlin BC British Columbia BMC BioMed Central CARL Canadian Association of Research Libraries CARL Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries CC Creative Commons CFI Canadian Foundation for Innovation CLA Canadian Library Association CMAJ Canadian Medical Association Journal COPPUL Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries xiii Scholarly Communication for Librarians CRKN Canadian Research Knowledge Network DEFF Denmark Electronic Research Library DFG German Research Foundation DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals DOI digital object identifier DRM digital rights management ERC European Research Council EUA European University Association FAIR ARL Freely Accessible Institute Resources FRPAA Federal Research Public Access Act GWLA Greater Western Library Alliance HHMI Howard Hughes Medical Institute IAA Information Access Alliance IAGES Indian Association of Gastrointestinal Endosurgeons ICOLC International Coalition of Library Consortia IF impact factor IFLA International Federation of Library Associations IJPE Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics IP intellectual property IR institutional repository ISSN International Standard Serial Number JISC UK Joint Information Systems Committee LHC Large Hadron Collider LIS library and information science LOCKSS lots of copies keeps stuff safe xiv List of acronyms NIH US National Institutes of Health NLM US National Library of Medicine NPG Nature Publishing Group OA open access OAI Open Archives Initiative OAI-PMH OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting OJS Open Journal Systems OMP Open Monograph Press OUP Oxford University Press PDF portable document format PKP Public Knowledge Project PLoS Public Library of Science PMC PubMed Central PRISM Partnership for Research Integrity in Science and Medicine ROARMAPRegistry of Open Access Material Archiving Policies SEP Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy SPARC Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition STM International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers STM science, technology and medicine T&F Taylor & Francis UBC University of British Columbia UKPMC UK PubMed Central WIPO World Intellectual Property Organization xv