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  • A Faculty Led Response to the Crisis in Scholarly Communications

    Creator:
    Boock, Michael
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    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...
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    intimately familiar with the cost inflation and monopolization of scholarly journals and the resulting

  • Department of Human Development and Family Sciences (HDFS) Journal Review

    Creator:
    Walker, Alexis
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    Overview of the work of the Faculty Senate Scholarly Communication Task Force regarding inaccessibility and lack of sustainability of current publication model. Report includes three tables listing journals in which HDFS faculty have published in recent years, publisher, cost, impact factors and whether the journals are published by scholarly societies...
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    As a member of the Faculty Senate Task Force on Scholarly Communication, I’ve had the opportunity to

  • College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences (COAS) Journal Review

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    Wheeler, Patricia A.
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    Analyzes subscription costs and impact factors for journals in which COAS faculty most frequently published from 1994-2003. Includes a spreadsheet with journal title, subscription cost, impact factor, publisher, information about whether the journal is published by a non-profit or commercial publisher, and cost per page.
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    professional and to decline to review papers for commercial journals. Continued support of the professional

  • Provision of Digital Library and Scholarly Communication Services in the Academic Library, Предоставяне на дигитални библиотечни услуги и услуги за академична комуникация от университетската библиотека

    Creator:
    Boock, Michael
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    Paper describes the formation of a Center for Digital Scholarship and Services at Oregon State University Libraries with a focus on how the library accomplished digital library and scholarly communication services. The paper describes the goals of the library in this area and the organizational and staffing changes that were...
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    Federal Agency Public Access Requirements. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 4. DOI

  • Scholarly communication in the marine and aquatic sciences

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    Webster, Janet G. and Butler, Barbara A.
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    We initiated an evaluation of the scholarly communication and publishing process in marine and aquatic sciences. This involves three components: describing the core journals for the discipline; examining the mechanics of publishing; and learning the mindset of authors and editors. We identified a core list of 19 journal titles and...
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  • Encouraging scholarly communication alternatives @ OSU

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    Boock, Michael
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    Describes efforts at Oregon State University to combat serials inflation through involvement of faculty in a Scholarly Communication Task Force. Includes brief discussion of context of scholarly communication crisis and information about the formation and work of task force to educate and change faculty behavior depending on their role in...
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    scholarly communication task force at OSU, the task force charge, results of the task force’s work, and the

  • Escalating Costs of Journals

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    Kerkvliet, Joe
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    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 discusses how journal prices have increased beyond the rate of inflation, monopolistic publishing practices, library...
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    faculty and students because of increasing journal prices, an expanding number of journals, and shrinking

  • Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Journal Review

    Creator:
    Ashkenas, Linda
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    Report analyzes subscription costs and impact factors for journals in which OSU Department of Fisheries & Wildlife faculty most frequently published from 2000-2005. Includes a spreadsheet with journal title, subscription cost, impact factor, publisher, information about whether the journal is published by a non-profit or commercial publisher, and cost per...
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    Scholarly Publications and Valley Library Impacts One of the present concerns in the field of scholarly

  • The high cost of textbooks: a convergence of academic libraries, campus bookstores, publishers?

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    Pollitz, John H. and Christie, Anne
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    Recent publications about the rising cost of college textbooks by the Public Interest Research and the US Government Accountability Office have caused student groups across the country to explore novel ways to address the problem. Students, publishers, bookstores and academic libraries, because of their role of managing course reserves, are...
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    purchasing textbooks for their collections because it would limit the purchase of scholarly books and

  • Scholarly Communications Task Force Report to the Faculty Senate

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    Wheeler, Patricia A., Allen, Bonnie, Beach, Gary L., Boock, Michael, Carter, Rich, Walker, Alexis, and Winograd, Ken
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    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,...
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    , can take to contribute to an open and sustainable system of scholarly communication; 3. Determine