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 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
Model Scholarly Communications Sites
Copyright and Publisher Permissions
- Columbia University has an excellent site on getting permission to use a copyrighted work.
- Copyright Clearance Center
- Creative Commons
- Creative Commons is a nonprofit corporation that provides 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.
- Innovative copyright: Unique resources for copyright education, Dodge, Lauren and Sams, Jennifer, College & Research Libraries News, 72 (2011): 596-599.
- SHERPA/RoMEO
- RoMEO, a service maintained by SHERPA, is a database of publisher's policies regarding the self-archiving of journal articles on the web and in Open Access repositories.
- Copyright & Fair Use (Stanford University)
Repositories
Professional Development
- ACRL Scholarly Communications Toolkit - Revised October 2016
- "The Toolkit, developed and maintained by the ACRL Research and Scholarly Environment Committee (ReSEC), continues to provide content and context on a broad range of scholarly communications topics and offers resources and tools for the practitioner." - ACRL Press Release (10/6/2016)
- Copyright for Librarians (Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard)
- EDUCAUSE
- Teaching Copyright (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
Legislation and Policy
Illinois Open Access to Research Articles Act Outcomes
Public Act 098-0295
Blogs