November 2008
Issue 3.08
Welcome to the Fall 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.
This newsletter aims to reflect the interests of its readers so please forward comments, suggestions and entries to include to karen-fischer@uiowa.edu. Also, read the health sciences counterpart to Transitions: Hardin Scholarly Communication News.
Table of Contents:
“Field Study” Finds New Scholarly Models Are Embraced by Scholars
AAA Awarded Planning Grant to Examine Future of Scholarly Journals
In Boost for NIH Policy, Major Autism Research Organization Mandates Public Access
Publisher-Author Agreements and the NIH Public Access Policy
New Ratings of Humanities Journals Do More Than Rank — They Rankle
Bringing history online, one newspaper at a time
Google signs a deal to e-publish out-of-print books
Congress’s copyright fight puts open access science in peril
Read publisher policies on copyright, and more…
Citation controversy: does online access change citation practices?
Scientific publishing might create a winner’s curse
