SELECTED RESOURCES ON SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING

This brief guide lists selected online resources on scholarly publishing and was prepared by ACRL's Law and Political Science Section, Bibliographic Instruction Committee, in support of the ACRL/LPSS program, The Politics of Scholarly Publishing in the New Millennium.

June 27, 1999
New Orleans, LA.

Web Sites:

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography -Version 25: 6/1/99

An outstanding site created by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. of the University of Houston Libraries. The site covers such topics as scholarly electronic publishing resources, SGML and related standards, cataloging, classification, and metadata , electronic books and texts, general electronic publishing, legal, electronic serials, digital libraries preservation, images, and a bibliography.

SPARC - The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition Association of Research Libraries

http://www.arl.org/sparc/index.html

A web site for a coalition of libraries that fosters expanded competition in scholarly communication. The organization " .... creates "partnerships" with publishers who are developing high quality, economical alternatives to existing high-priced publications."

Society for Scholarly Publishing

http://www.sspnet.org/

Their purpose is to promote and advance scholarly communications among all sectors of the scholarly publication community through networking, information dissemination and facilitation of new developments in the field.

University of Waterloo Electronic Library Scholarly Societies Project

http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/society/overview.html

The Project, international in scope, offers web sites of 1400 scholarly societies, selected sources on the Web, and access to societies of scholarly communication.

Scholarly Journals Distributed Via the World Wide Web - University of Houston Libraries

http://info.lib.uh.edu/wj/webjour.html

The site provides links to established Web-based scholarly journals with an alphabetical list of all journals.

National Scholarly Communications Forum

http://www.naf.org.au/nscf.htm

The National Scholarly Communications Forum (NSCF) was formed in October, 1993, " . . . to disseminate information about changes to the context and structures of scholarly communication in Australia and to make recommendations on what a broad spectrum of participants see as the best developmental policies."

Academic On-line Publishing

http://www.cudenver.edu/~mryder/epublishing.html

Martin Ryder's Web page at University of Colorado at Denver has a selection of articles and references and other links related to on-line publishing.

Links to Selected University Sites - Scholarly Communication & Publishing:

Brown University: Scholarly Technology Group

http://www.stg.brown.edu/stg.html

The Brown University Scholarly Technology Group supports the development and use of advanced information technology in academic research, teaching, and scholarly communication.

Scholarly Communication Working Group - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

http://ils.unc.edu/schol-com/index.html

The site is sponsored by the Institute for Research in Social Science (IRSS) and offers resources to faculty and assistance in electronic scholarly publishing.

Scholarly Communication Center - North Carolina State University

http://dewey.lib.ncsu.edu/issues/SCC/scholcom.html

The center " .... provide guidance to the library staff on matters pertaining to scholarly communication and to serve as the university's primary resource on fair use and other copyright issues as they relate to library collections and services."

The Electronic Publishing Centre - University of Toronto, Canada

http://www.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/epc/index.html

Offers assistance with electronic publishing, hardware, software and tutorials for faculty and students.

Electronic Publishing and Scholarly Communication on the Internet - Center for Instructional Technology Development, University of Toronto at Scarborough, Canada

http://citd.scar.utoronto.ca/CAPA/E-publishing.html

A page dedicated to network based scholarship and the latest information on the topic with links for Canada and developing countries.

Online Scholarship Initiative - University of Virginia

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/osi/osi.html

Provides Internet access to scholarly articles, a scholarly archive and web links to other relevant sites.

Additional copies of this guide are available at the ACRL Law & Political Science Website: http://facstaff.uww.edu/hansenc/lpss.htm
Library Instruction Committee - LPSS/ACRL: John Dillard, John Stemmer, Lisa Stimatz, Paul Vermouth, Elizabeth Williams, Christine Angolia, Chair