Scholarly Communication: Alternative Publishing Projects
SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
'SPARC is a worldwide alliance of research institutions, libraries and organizations that encourages competition in the scholarly communications market.'
DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
Sponsored by Lund University (Sweden), the Information Program of the Open Society Institute, and SPARC (above). The directory contains information about 350 open access journals, i.e. quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals that are freely available on the web. More journals will be added as they are identified.
'The Open Archives Initiative develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content.'
'BioOne is the product of innovative collaboration between scientific societies, libraries, academe and the private sector. BioOne brings to the Web a uniquely valuable aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals.'
'BioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research.' Washington University is a Supporting Member of BioMed Central.
'PubMed Central is a digital archive of life sciences journal literature, developed and managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM).'
'The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a non-profit organization of scientists committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a public resource.' The WU Libraries, with the Becker Medical Library, have paid for an institutional membership, such that WU faculty wishing to publish in PLoS journals have a 20% discount on the publishing fee.
'A digital repository created to capture, distribute and preserve the intellectual output of MIT.' DSpace is also the name of the open source software used to create and maintain the repository at MIT, which is available to other institutions to create t heir own repositories. See also http://libraries.mit.edu/dspace, the homepage for MIT's implementation of DSpace.
An initiative of the California Digital Library, 'eScholarship stimulates and facilitates innovation in scholarly communication in support of research and teaching.'
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