KELVIN SMITH LIBRARY

Case Western Reserve University Faculty Senate
Committee on University Libraries

Membership of the Committee for Academic Year 2007/2008

Committee Charge

2007/08 Faculty Senate Library Committee Working Documents

• Report of the Case Western Reserve University Libraries: Library Priorities 2008-2012 (PDF)

2005/06 Faculty Senate Library Committee Working Documents

• Proposed Agenda for F/S Library Committee, 2005-2006 (Salipante 7-21-05) (PDF)
• Open Access talking points (PDF)
• Open Access Publication (PDF)
• Report of the Faculty Sentate Library Committee to the Faculty Senate, April 25, 2005. Contains the "Resolution in Support of Accessible Scholarly and Scientific Publication" (PDF)

Background Information of Use to the Committee

1. Scholarly publishing Issues
• http://www.jcb.org/cgi/content/full/jcb.200307018
• http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0401/p11s01-legn.html
• http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i40/40b00701.htm
• The SPARC initiative: a catalyst for change
  http://www.library.uu.nl/staff/savenije/publicaties/ticer2004.htm
2. Copyright
• http://www.lib.umn.edu/copyright/ The Copyright Information and Education Initiative at University of Minnesota Libraries has developed a web site to provide a comprehensive and in depth survey of copyright issues in teaching and research for the higher education community. In addition to background information on copyright, the site incorporates a number of interesting and useful interactive tools. The site emphasizes the decision making process regarding copyright with a Decision Map to help determine which opportunities copyright statutes might provide for uses of copyrighted works. A Fair Use Analysis Tool gives users a way to see the weighted balance of each of the four factors in the context of their particular, proposed use.
3. Information/Research Literacy
• Association of College and Research Libraries
  Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education
  http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/informationliteracycompetency.htm
• Mellon Library Faculty Fellowship for Undergraduate Research
  http://library.berkeley.edu/MellonInstitute/articles.html
4. ARL Library Electronic Publication Initiatives
• Cornell: http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/
• Stanford: http://highwire.stanford.edu/about/
• California: http://www.cdlib.org/programs/escholarship.html
• Virginia Tech: http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/
• Johns Hopkins: http://dkc.jhu.edu/ also: http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/
5. Electronic publishing saves costs?
• http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-04/odlyzko0404.html
• http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/7.html
6. Electronic publishing - disciplinary cultures (tenure)
• http://www.harrassowitz.de/top_resources/ejresguide/academic.html
• http://www.library.cornell.edu/ulib/pubs/EPSCFinalReport1998.htm
• http://math.berkeley.edu/~kirby/journals.html
• The Future of Scholarly Publishing (MLA Ad hoc Committee on Future of Scholarly Publishing)
7. Open access movement and SPARC (includes NIH initiative)
• Washington, DC Prinicples for Free Access to Science The Washington DC Principles for Free Access to Science outlines the commitment of not-for-profit publishers to work in partnership with scholarly communities such as libraries to "ensure that these communities are sustained, science is advanced, research meets the highest standards and patient care is enhanced with accurate and timely information."
• Directory of Open Access Journals. The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact.
• Directory of Journal Self-Archiving Policies
• Institutional Repositories: The Next Stage--SPARC/SPARC Europe Workshop, Washington, DC, 18-19 November 2004. Conference report by Linda Cantara, Kelvin Smith Library
• http://www.createchange.org/resources/brochure.html
  (Scroll down for Open Access brochure)
• http://www.arl.org/arl/pr/taxpayer_alliance.html
• http://www.plos.org/about/openaccess.html
• SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
• The Case for Institutional Repositories: A SPARC Position Paper
  http://www.arl.org/sparc/IR/ir.html
• SPARC Institutional Repository Check List and Resource Guide
  http://www.arl.org/sparc/IR/IR_Guide.html
• SPARC Publisher Partners
  http://www.arl.org/sparc/partner/index.html
• ARL: NIH initiative FAQ
  http://www.arl.org/info/publicaccess/ARLFAQ.html
8. New Models of Scholarly Communication, Institutional Repositories, and Metadata
• Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving. These summaries are for the publishers default policies for authors who wish to self-archive their scholarly works. Changes or exceptions can often be negotiated by authors.
  http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php?all=yes
• A New World of Scholarly Communication
  http://chronicle.com/free/v50/i11/11b01601.htm
• Rethinking Scholarly Communications: Building the System that Scholars Deserve
  http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september04/vandesompel/09vandesompel.html
• Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age
  http://www.arl.org/newsltr/226/ir.html
• Open Access Now: A Journey into DSpace
  http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/archive/?page=features&issue=7
• Association of Learned and Professional Publishers (ALPSP) Open Archives and Institutional Repositories
  http://www.alpsp.org/htp_openarc.htm
• Metadata and EAD Finding Aids: What are they and why are they important?
  http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/workshops/alioct03/metadata.pdf
9. Selected U.S. Institutional Repositories
• California Digital Library
  eScholarship
  Content: preprints, published articles, theses and dissertations, etc.
  System software: custom with Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress)
  http://escholarship.cdlib.org/wprepositories.html
• Caltech
  CODA: Caltech Collection of Open Digital Archives
  Content: preprints, published articles, theses and dissertations, etc.
  System software: Eprints.org
  http://coda.caltech.edu
• MIT
  DSpace
  Content: preprints, published articles, theses and dissertations, etc.
  System software: DSpace infrastructure software
  https://dspace.mit.edu/index.jsp
  see also the DSpace Federation site:
  http://www.dspace.org/
• Virginia Tech, Digital Library and Archives
  Digital Library & Archives
  Content: preprints, published articles, theses and dissertations, etc.
  System software: custom
  http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/DLASPS/index.html