LIS520 Janes
history, and
the basics
Harmon, Joseph E., “The
Literature of Enlightenment: Technical
Periodicals and Proceedings in the 17th and 18th
Centuries”, Journal of Technical Writing
and Communication 17, 397-405, 1987.
available via e-reserves
Osburn,
Charles B., “The Place of the Journal in the Scholarly Communications System”, Library Resources & Technical Services,
315-324, October/December 1984. available via e-reserves
Richardson, John V., Jr. and Charles E. Meier. 1998. Scholarly
journal decision making: a graphic representation.
Library Quarterly 68: v-viii.
McCook, Alison, “Is Peer Review Broken?” The Scientist 20 (2), February 2006
Schaffner, Ann C. “The Future of
Scientific Journals: Lessons from the
Past”, Information Technology and
Libraries 13 (4), 239ff, December 1994
now
Open Access Overview
Peter Suber, Earlham College
Assessing the Future Landscape of
Scholarly Communication Center for Studies in Higher Education 2010
[executive summary]
Guernsey, Lisa, “Bringing
Tenure Into the Digital Age” Chronicle
of Higher Education 12/12/2008 You may need to use the UW library proxy server for some Chronicle articles
“Scholars Test Web
Alternative to Peer Review” New York
Times 8/23/2010
“Confessions
of a Journal Editor”
Chronicle of Higher Education 4/25/11
“Periodicals
Price Survey 2011” Library Journal
4/14/2011
“Academic
publishers make Murdoch look like a Socialist” guardian.co.uk 8/29/11
“Internet
Ruffles Pricey Scholarly Journals” New
York Times 9/18/11
Economic
Implications of Alternative Scholarly Publishing Models JISC 2009 [focus on
intro, summary, conclusions]
“Libraries
Abandon Expensive ‘Big Deal’ Subscription Packages to Multiple Journals” Chronicle of Higher Education 7/17/11
The University’s Role in
the Dissemination of Research and Scholarship—A Call to Action
AAU/ARL/CNI/NASULGC 2009 [pdf]
Open Access to
Scientific Papers May Not Guarantee Wide Dissemination NSF press release
2009
“At Symposium on
Sustaining Digital Information, a Call for Libraries to Step Up” Library Journal 4/1/2010
evolution
The
Transformation of the Scholarly Journal (part of PhD dissertation of Andrew
Treloar, Monash University,
Australia)
Trailblazing Royal Society
(historical articles from Philosophical
Transactions
current
efforts and potential futures
JSTOR The Scholarly Journal Archive (UW
subscribes to this, which gives you access to things we pay for, searchable here)
Highwire Press
(Stanford Univ)
questions
for class discussion
What
are scholarly journals for? What
purposes do they serve?
Why
did they arise? What needs did they
satisfy, and what circumstances or forces supported their development?
What
are the components of a journal? Of a journal article?
How
does an article get published; what’s the process that has to be gone through?
Why
is peer review such a critical feature of many of these articles?
Then
what happens to that article, after publication? What other processes go on, post-publication,
to enable it to be retrieved, accessed and used?
Why
do journals cost so much?
What
is happening to the scholarly journal?
How is it changing, evolving?
What new models are being proposed?
What would success look like?
collections
of interest or note
E-journals available at
UW (some UW restricted)
Yahoo! category on Magazines (zines)
other
background readings
Lynch,
Clifford A. "Institutional Repositories:
Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age" ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library
Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC
p. 1-7 (February 2003)
FAQ from the Public Library of Science
Tectonic
Shifts in Scholarly Publishing The
Charleston Advisor April 2005
Scholarly
Publishing Statement of Principles, Univ of
California Berkeley Faculty Senate
Schonfeld, Roger C., Donald W. King, and Ann Okerson, et.
al. "The Nonsubscription Side of Periodicals: Changes in Library
Operations and Costs between Print and Electronic Formats" Council on Library and Information
Resources (June 2004)
Alves, Rosental
Calmon. "Many Newspaper Sites
Still Cling to Once-a-Day Publish Cycle" Online Journalism Review (21 July 2004)
Tenopir,
et al, “Patterns of
Journal Use by Scientists through Three Evolutionary Phases”, Dlib 9 (5), May 2003
Smith,
Abby. New-Model Scholarship: How Will It Survive?
Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resources, March 2003
Suber,
Peter. "NIH Open-Access
Plan: Frequently Asked Questions"
(2004)
Peek,
Robin, “Can
Science and Nature Be Trumped?” Information Today 20(2), Feb 2003
Gass
& Doyle, “The
Reality of Open Access Journals” Chronicle
of Higher Education 2/18/05
Guterman,
Lila. "Scientific
Societies' Publishing Arms Unite Against Open-Access Movement" The Chronicle
of Higher Education 50(29) (26 March
2004): A20.
“Evolution or
revolution: the future of scholarly publishing” By Paul Harwood, Free Pint
108 (March 21, 2002)