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Purpose - To report on the Association of Research libraries (ARL)/ Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Institute on Scholarly Communications held in December 2006 in Durham, North Carolina. Design/methodology/approach - Provides a review of some of the events of the conference. Findings - The second ARL/ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communications aims to provide attendees continuing professional education on scholarly communications issues, publishing models, strategies for encouraging advocacy programs, copyright, and author's rights issues. The workshop combined presentation with working sessions for attendee teams to work on individual scholarly communication action plans for their institutions. Originality/value - A workshop report of interest to information professionals dealing with scholarly communications issues in academia, corporate and governmental information centers and libraries.

Restricting access to knowledge and science is not beneficial for society. So why are scientific results still locked up behind paywalls? Even though the answer to this question is enlightening, the story is quickly told. Much more important is the knowledge on how to change this.Politics, research funders, libraries and scientists have to join forces and to push forward to flip scholarly communication from closed to open access. What has happened so far? What are the current developments? What can each of these parties contribute to the transformation of scholarly communication? Open access guidelines, repositories and the hashtag #ICanHazPDF are just a few examples of approaches that jointly undermine the paywalls. One that has been recognized even beyond the scientific community is Project DEAL which aims to achieve open access for scientific publications from German scientists with major academic publishers.Things are currently progressing very fast and a lot can happen in the weeks between now and the congress. The talk will start with a brief introduction to the most common way of scholarly communication, where science is still mainly locked up behind paywalls. In line with the most recent developments, the talk will then focus on different approaches to open up science and their political and practical consequences. Whatever happens, the transformation of scholarly communication is well underway and it will affect not only the scientific community but society as a whole. So let's join forces!

Restricting access to knowledge and science is not beneficial for society. So why are scientific results still locked up behind paywalls? Even though the answer to this question is enlightening, the story is quickly told. Much more important is the knowledge on how to change this. Politics, research funders, libraries and scientists have to join forces and to push forward to flip scholarly communication from closed to open access. What has happened so far? What are the current developments? What can each of these parties contribute to the transformation of scholarly communication? Open access guidelines, repositories and the hashtag #ICanHazPDF are just a few examples of approaches that jointly undermine the paywalls. One that has been recognized even beyond the scientific community is Project DEAL which aims to achieve open access for scientific publications from German scientists with major academic publishers. Things are currently progressing very fast and a lot can happen in the weeks between now and the congress. The talk will start with a brief introduction to the most common way of scholarly communication, where science is still mainly locked up behind paywalls. In line with the most recent developments, the talk will then focus on different approaches to open up science and their political and practical consequences. Whatever happens, the transformation of scholarly communication is well underway and it will affect not only the scientific community but society as a whole. So let's join forces!

This book chapter argues that Canadian academic libraries have largely failed to maximize the opportunity to develop a national information infrastructure. As a result, they operate in an environment where information is often under the control of corporate interests and other nations. For instance, Canadian scholarly communication is affected by American legislation (e.g. The USA PATRTIOT Act) and governmental rulings (e.g. rulings of the Office of Foreign Asset Controls). While some discussion has taken place, there is an overall lack of a national dialogue on how to ameliorate this situation. There is also evidence that access to Canadian digital content within Canada is selective. ; No

DRIVER has a clear vision: All research institutions in Europe and worldwide make all their research publications openly accessible through institutional repositories. The vision follows the Berlin Declaration, which called in October 2003 for 'free and unrestricted access to sciences and human knowledge representation worldwide'. Initiated by the internationally renowned German research organisation the Max-Planck-Society, and signed by many international research organisations and institutes, the Berlin Declaration has set a political statement. In building a sustainable infrastructure for scientific repositories, DRIVER brings to this statement the reality of scholarly communication in the future. ; peerReviewed

This chapter is published in the book "Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access"

The UBC Library along with many other research libraries is beginning to develop a range of publishing support services for faculty and students. This presentation focuses on new developments and open access trends in scholarly communication and publishing. It was delivered as part of a graduate seminar in the Dept of English on April 2, 2009. ; Library, UBC ; Unreviewed ; Faculty

The paper focuses on the history of the Open Acces Movement, from a viewpoint which lets "spaces of thoughts" emerge in the places of the scholarly communication. From this perspective, indeed, the domain of the Library and Information Science shows aspects that are proper of the philosophical speculation. The essay analyses the ethical, political and philosophical implications of the Open Access instances that have the same language and the same episteme of postmodernity: this allows a dialogue between technological and digital aspect and humanist wisdom. The Open Access not only represents a technical innovation, but it also takes advantage of digital environment in the field of scientific dissemination, deeply changing the communication of knowledge itself. In this way, it also transforms the professionals of information, as they become researchers placed on the side of "who takes word" for desecrate knowledge and return it to the community. ; The paper focuses on the history of the Open Acces Movement, from a viewpoint which lets "spaces of thoughts" emerge in the places of the scholarly communication. From this perspective, indeed, the domain of the Library and Information Science shows aspects that are proper of the philosophical speculation. The essay analyses the ethical, political and philosophical implications of the Open Access instances that have the same language and the same episteme of postmodernity: this allows a dialogue between technological and digital aspect and humanist wisdom. The Open Access not only represents a technical innovation, but it also takes advantage of digital environment in the field of scientific dissemination, deeply changing the communication of knowledge itself. In this way, it also transforms the professionals of information, as they become researchers placed on the side of "who takes word" for desecrate knowledge and return it to the community.

While the number of electronic scholarly journals is growing steadily, these journals have not yet been accepted as legitimate publication outlets by the scholarly communities. This article examines how moving from paper to electronic distribution alters the legitimacy and perceived quality of journals. It also examines the prospects for creating diverse high‐quality electronic journals in the next two decades.