Scholarly Publishing and Copyright  

Open Access Week - Oct. 24-30, 2011

Society for Scholarly Publishing

SPARC
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition is "dedicated to helping transform the scholarly communications market place and process."

Alliance for Taxpayer Access

Coalition for Networked Information

Create Change
"A resource for faculty and librarian action to reclaim scholarly communication."

Creative Commons
"is devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others to build upon and share." Learn More.

MIT Libraries on the Wiley and Elsevier Subscription Packages

Cornell University on Copyright Management

UC Berkeley Scholarly Publishing

University of California Libraries

OA Tracking Project

Open Access Directory
"a compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship."

SCOAP3: A New Model for Scholarly Communication
an online preprint from ARL encouraging libraries to support SCOAP3, the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics.

"The Impact Factor Follies" -- Epidemiology questions the validity of the Impact Factor (4 brief commentaries.)

Open Doors and Open Minds: What faculty authors can do to ensure open access to their work through their institution.
a SPARC / Science Commons white paper. April 2008.

Open Access News Blog Archive

Publishing and Open Access, a PubMed search

Everything you need to know about NIH Policies can be found on the next Tab

Uspace, The University of Utah Institutional Repository

PubMed Central
"PMC is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's digital archive of life sciences journal literature. Access to PMC is free and unrestricted."

Public Library of Science, PLoS
"A non-profit organization of scientists committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a public resource." Subsidized by Eccles Health Sciences Library.

BioMed Central
Open access journals covering biology, medicine, and the life sciences. Links to work published by researchers at the University of Utah. Purchased by Marriott Library.

Directory of Open Access Journals

Highwire Press - Free Online Full-text Articles

Author Impact: Who has cited my work?

Scopus

Google Scholar

Web of Science is available from Marriott Library workstations

Journal Impact:

Journal Citation Reports

Find Author Instructions

NLM Catalog- locate Instructions for Authors on journal homepages.

Search hints: Add  [jo] after journal name in catalog search box to limit to journal title. Example: Journal of the American Medical Association[jo]

If single word title, use [ta] after title in catalog search box. Example = cell[ta]

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals

Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences from the Mulford Health Science Library at the University of Toledo

EndNote users: use Style Manager to format Output Style for a journal.

Can I post my article on the web?

Find Publisher Policies with SHERPA/RoMEO.

Scholarship Services - Marriott Library

PLoS Editor, Barbara Cohen's presentation on open access. Slides only.

Publishing as an Open Access Author. PowerPoint Slides from LIFT Forum, 2/11/04. RealMedia Video.
Please feel free to use and adapt this poster to the needs of your institution with proper credit to the author/creator.