A Faculty Led Response to the Crisis in Scholarly Communications

Permanent citation URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1957/7418
Title:A Faculty Led Response to the Crisis in Scholarly Communications
Authors:Boock, Michael
Keywords:Scholarly communication
Faculty publication reviews
LCSH Keywords:Scholarly publishing
Issue Date:13-Dec-2007
Publisher:International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication
Citation:Boock, Michael. 2007. A Faculty Led Response to the Crisis in Scholarly Communications. E-JASL: The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship 8(3). http://southernlibrarianship.icaap.org/.
Abstract:Oregon State University’s recent response to the crisis in scholarly communications recognizes that teaching faculty must be involved in communicating an appropriate response to their faculty colleagues. As authors, editors, and peer reviewers, direct faculty action can encourage publishers to lower costs and can enhance the availability of research. The author discusses the work of a faculty-led task force that communicates information about unsustainable journal costs to faculty peers and the actions that can be taken to counteract this trend. In particular, the author discusses the use of academic unit publication reviews to effectively communicate journal cost variations to faculty.
URI:http://hdl.handle.net/1957/7418
ISSN:1704-8532
Appears in Collections:Reports, Articles and Presentations (Faculty Senate Library Committee)
Papers, Articles, and Conference Proceedings (Libraries)

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