http://hdl.handle.net/1957/1748 2013-05-22T00:44:04Z http://hdl.handle.net/1957/7418 A Faculty Led Response to the Crisis in Scholarly Communications Boock, Michael 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. 2007-12-13T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1957/1937 Open Access to Scholarly Work Witbeck, Michael The third in a series of articles published in OSU This Week by members of the Faculty Senate Library Committee regarding threats to an open and sustainable system of scholarly communication and potential solutions. Article describes open access model of scholarly communication. 2006-05-18T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1957/1852 Uses and Misuses of the Journal Impact Factor Wheeler, Patricia A.; Walker, Alexis The second in a series of articles published in OSU This Week by members of the Faculty Senate Library Committee regarding threats to an open and sustainable system of scholarly communication and potential solutions. Article describes what journal impact factors are and how they are determined and makes recommendations for their proper use. 2006-05-11T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1957/1801 Use of Institutional Repositories to Combat the High Cost of Scholarly Journals Boock, Michael; Putnam, Melodie The fifth and final article in a series of articles published in OSU This Week by members of the Faculty Senate Library Committee regarding threats to an open and sustainable system of scholarly communication and potential solutions. Article discusses how deposit of articles in institutional repositories increases the availability of research and can negatively impact the ability of publishers to continue to charge high prices. Discusses what publishers allow authors regarding self-archiving and archiving of articles in institutional repositories. Also discusses the emergence of ScholarsArchive@OSU -- the Oregon State University Institutional Repository. 2006-05-25T00:00:00Z