Scholarly Communication and the CARLI Community

The creation, dissemination and consumption of research and scholarship are essential to higher education. Faculty, students and academic librarians are individually and collectively engaged in a complex web of scholarly communication. It is indisputable that scope, structure and economics of scholarly communication are currently undergoing fundamental transformation.

CARLI, as a geographically defined and very diverse academic library consortium, may seem to be on the periphery of the controversies surrounding changes in —or alternatives to—traditional models of publishing, information delivery and determining the value of information. Consider, however, that:

CARLI libraries serve the information needs of over 950,000 students and faculty;
While you may think that research and publication are predominantly the province of large research universities, faculty at literally every CARLI institution are actively creating scholarship and regularly publishing their work;
CARLI members collectively consume tens of millions of dollars of scholarly publishing;
Most academic library budgets, regardless of size and type, were static or declining even before the current recession.

The issues of scholarly communication are important to CARLI’s members and, therefore, to the consortium. Much good work has already gone into creating and compiling topical discussions, guidance, documents and templates that allow individual scholars and librarians to more fully understand and better control the creation and dissemination of information. The resources highlighted on this page are intended to inform and assist librarians and faculty in playing an active and positive role in making their scholarship available in an equitable and economically viable manner.

Organizations

The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL)

CARLI members of ARL:

Northwestern University
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
The University of Chicago
University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

California Digital Library (CDL)

Society for Scholarly Publishing

Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC)

CARLI members of CIC

Northwestern University
The University of Chicago
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)

CARLI members of SPARC:

Illinois Wesleyan University
Loyola University of Chicago
Northwestern University
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
The University of Chicago
University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Model Scholarly Communications Sites

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Columbia University Scholarly Communication Program

Cornell University

Johns Hopkins University

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

University of Minnesota

University of Tennessee

Copyright and Publisher Permissions

Columbia University has an excellent site on getting permission to use a copyrighted work.

Creative Commons

Creative Commons is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with the rules of copyright. We provide free licenses and other legal tools to mark creative work with the freedom the creator wants it to carry, so others can share, remix, use commercially, or any combination thereof.

SHERPA/RoMEO

This service is maintained by SHERPA, with support from JISC and the Wellcome Trust. It is a development of the original journal publishers' listings produced by the RoMEO Project.

Science Commons

Science Commons designs strategies and tools for faster, more efficient web-enabled scientific research. We identify unnecessary barriers to research, craft policy guidelines and legal agreements to lower those barriers, and develop technology to make research, data and materials easier to find and use. Our goal is to speed the translation of data into discovery — unlocking the value of research so more people can benefit from the work scientists are doing.