Scholarly Communications Task Force Report to the Faculty Senate

Abstract

Reports the work of the 2004/2005 Oregon State University Faculty Senate Task Force on Scholarly Communication. Report: Determines the current practices that impede an open and sustainable system of scholarly communication, citing data where necessary to substantiate the findings; 2. Determines actions that OSU faculty members, as authors, readers, reviewers, editors, society members, advisory board members and faculty members, who are dependent on scholarly communication for professional advancement, can take to contribute to an open and sustainable system of scholarly communication; 3. Determines a few of these actions that are likely to have the greatest positive impact towards creation of an open and sustainable system of scholarly communication; 4. Proposes a framework for communicating these findings to the OSU faculty.