Archive for March, 2005
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UC “Postprint Repository Services” Report Released
Postprint Repository Services: Context and Feasibility at the University of California. This March 2005 research report, generously supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, provides contextual information and recommendations for a repository for open-access distribution of UC faculty article publications. It based its recommendations for establishing, promoting, and further studying a UC postprint repository service on results from six research objectives that collectively provide baseline data about the number and proportion of UC faculty articles that can be made available for simultaneous distribution in an open-access postprint repository, and faculty attitudes toward managing copyright in their work as a means […]
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SLASIAC’s “Resolution I”
Saying that “a failure to respond [to scholarly communication issues] will jeopardize UC’s pre-eminence, its contributions to scholarly inquiry and the progress of knowledge, its effectiveness in teaching and learning, and its service to the citizens of California,” UC’s Systemwide Library and Scholarly Information Advisory Committee (SLASIAC) writes and endorses Resolution I: The University’s Role in Fostering Positive Change in Scholarly Communication. The resolution calls upon the university and its faculty to take a number of certain steps to “regain control of and strengthen scholarly communication processes.”
