Resources for Reference

The volume of relevant information about issues in scholarly communication is rapidly expanding. Good starting places include:

• Issues in scholarly communication: Page on the Association of Resource Libraries (ARL) web site.
• Create Change: Web site supporting library and faculty action in scholarly communication.
• Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC): Web site sponsored by the Academic Resources Coalition.
• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: Covers articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources.
• Budapest Open Access Initiative: A world-wide initiative committed to open-access journals and to self-archiving.
• UC library pages describing challenges and strategic plans related to managing campus library collections:
  • Collections management page at UC Berkeley
  • Scholarly Communication page at UC Davis.
  • Scholarly Communication and Management Program (SCAMP) page at UC Irvine.
  • Information for faculty on the state of the library collections page at UCLA.
  • Library collections and scientific publishing page at UC San Francisco.