Scholarly Electronic Publishing:

Scholarly Electronic Publishing:

Report from the Battle Lines.

Jean-Claude Guédon

Budapest, August, 2000.

The following are URL's corresponding to various projects and organizations that will be mentioned in the course of the talk.

A list of electronic journals, mainly scholarly, kept up-to-date by Jim O'Donnell (U. of Pennsylvania) and Ann Okerson (Yale University).

Almost 9200 titles presently.

http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour

Studies on the economics of scholarly publishing

The Mellon Report that studies the economics of scholarly serials:

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/mellon/

The Newsletter on Serials Pricing Issues (since 1991)

http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/nspi/

See also the Andrew Odlyzko site (below)

Library sites.

The « Battle sites » of the librarians.

http://www.createchange.org/librarians/issues/quick.html

http://www.arl.org/sparc

Library consortiums (or consortia - suit yourself... :-) ).

A general reference full of information and organized by Ann Okerson.

http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/index.shtml

Examples of consortiums.

Canada

http://www.uottawa.ca/library/cnslp

France:

http://buweb.univ-angers.fr/BUNET/Revues/index.html

United Kingdom

http://www.nesli.ac.uk

USA

http://www.ohiolink.edu

http://www.galileo.peachnet.edu (Georgia)

http://www.texshare.edu

etc. etc.

An interesting set-up for Central and Eastern Europe.

Http://www.eblida.org/cecup

Personal sites and individual articles.

The personal site of Stevan Harnad (replete with fundamental articles dealing with electronic publishing).

http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/

An important paper by Andrew Odlyzko (his whole site is another important source of information on electronic publishing: just move up one step in the directory structure of the URL to find the list of papers).

« Competition and cooperation: Libraries and publishers in the transition to electronic scholarly journals. »:

http://www.research.att.com/~amo/doc/competition.cooperation.txt

The site of Ann Okerson, one of the most knowledgeable persons on site licensing and university consortiums. Ann Okerson is Associate Librarian at Yale University.

Http://www.lirary.yale.edu/~okerson

A conference I gave at the National Library of Medicine in 1998 (Leiter Lecture)

http://www.mlanet.org/publications/bmla/leiter98.html

An interesting viewpoint on scholars and copyright.

http://www.econ.rochester.edu/Faculty/PhelpsPapers/Phelps_paper.html

Inventing the licensing model for scholarly publications.

The Elsevier Tulip project (1991-5).

http://www.elsevier.nl/homepage/about/resproj/tulip.shtml#FinalReport

Long term preservation of Digital Documents : the Lockss project.

http://lockss.stanford.edu.

Open archives, including discussions.

The 1997 CalTech meeting.

http://library.caltech.edu/publications/scholarsforum/

Various open archive projects.

The Ginsparg project.

http://xxx.lanl.gov

http://arXiv.org/

Various open archives.

Http://www.biomedcentral.com

http://www.openarchives.org/

Http://www.eprints.org

http://www.nih.gov/about/director/pubmedcentral/ebiomedarch.htm.

http://adswww.harvard.edu/

http://mathnet.preprints.org.

The « European » response to PubMedcentral

http://www.embo.org/Biochemsoc.html

Open archives created by research councils and granting agencies.

http://www.scielo.br

Http://www.scielo.cl

Archives organized by University Presses and/or Libraries (semi-open or closed).

Http://muse.jhu.edu

http://highwire.stanford.edu