March 2009
Issue 1.09
Welcome to the Spring issue of Transitions.
The purpose of this irregular electronic newsletter is to bring to readers’ attention some of the many new projects and developments affecting the current system of scholarly communication, with emphasis on new products and programs, the open access movement and other alternative publishing models. Scholarly communication refers to the full range of formal and informal means by which scholars and researchers communicate, from email discussion lists to peer-reviewed publication. In general authors are seeking to document and share new discoveries with their colleagues, while readers–researchers, students, librarians and others–want access to all the literature relevant to their work.
While the system of scholarly communication exists for the benefit of the world’s research and educational community and the public at large, it faces a multitude of challenges and is undergoing rapid change brought on by technology. To help interested members of the UI community keep up on these challenges and changes we plan to put out 4 issues per year of this newsletter. Please visit our web site, Transforming Scholarly Communication, to find out more about this topic.
This newsletter aims to reflect the interests of its readers so please forward comments, suggestions and entries to include to karen-fischer@uiowa.edu.
Table of Contents:
Google Books Settlement – updates
Publish in Wikipedia or Perish
Long-term Open Access Journal Ends Free Access
Study Suggests Library Dollars Spent Corrolate with Grant Income
Misunderestimating Open Science
Institutional Repositories: Thinking Beyond the Box
MacArthur Foundation Adopts a Research Access Policy
Negotiating a Creative Commons License
Framing the Open Access Debate
How the Media Frames “Open Access”
Publishing an E-journal on a Shoestring: Sustaining a low-buget OA journal
University Presses Find Strategies to Survive Economic Crisis
New Open Access Search Tool for Economics