Scholarly communication for librarians

Reviews the current landscape of scholarly communications and publishing and potential futures, outlining key aspects of transition to best possible futures for libraries and librarians.

• About the author p. ix
• Acknowledgements p. xi
• List of acronyms p. xiii
• Author's note p. xvii
• Introduction p. 1
• 1 Scholarship and scholarly communication p. 9
• Impact factor and promotion p. 12
• Scholarly communication p. 14
• Disciplinary differences p. 17
• Summary p. 18
• 2 Scholarly journals p. 21
• Starting and running a journal p. 22
• Producing a journal p. 24
• The diversity of scholarly journals p. 27
• Summary p. 33
• 3 Publishing: the scholarly mission, and the multi-billion-dollar industry p. 35
• Scholarly publishing today: an overview p. 37
• Emerging trends: library as publisher and publishing cooperatives p. 52
• Summary p. 55
• 4 Libraries and librarians p. 57
• Librarians as scholars p. 57
• Librarians, scholarship and evidence-based practice p. 62
• Library collections from print to online p. 63
• The library as support for scholarly communication p. 65
• Library publishing services p. 76
• Institutional repositories p. 77
• Summary p. 78
• 5 Authors' rights and intellectual property p. 81
• What is intellectual property and what is copyright? p. 82
• Two basic types of rights: moral and economic p. 85
• Intellectual property and copyright are rapidly evolving p. 87
• Scholarship and knowledge p. 93
• Intellectual property: what matters to the scholar p. 95
• Scholarly publishing and intellectual property p. 95
• Librarians and intellectual property p. 100
• Summary p. 102
• 6 Open access p. 103
• What is open access? p. 106
• The benefits of open access p. 110
• Open Archives Initiative and OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting p. 113
• Green: open access archives p. 114
• Gold: open access publishing - environmental sciences case study p. 119
• Open access policy p. 121
• Anti-OA lobbying p. 130
• The dramatic growth of open access p. 132
• Learning more and keeping up p. 132
• Summary p. 133
• 7 The economics of scholarly communications in transition p. 135
• Macroeconomics, the scholarly publishing industry and libraries p. 136
• Keys to a leading-edge future for scholarly communication p. 140
• Affordability p. 141
• Library resources in transition p. 147
• Licensing/procurement: towards alternative publishing and open access p. 149
• Library consortia support for open access and alternative publishing p. 153
• Preparing for the future: roles for library management p. 155
• Summary p. 156
• 8 Emerging trends and formats p. 159
• Evolving journals p. 160
• Open monographs, open textbooks and education, open and shareable learning objects p. 160
• Citations and impact p. 161
• Thinking about scholarship p. 162
• Collapsing boundaries p. 163
• Data and open data p. 165
• Large-scale library content online p. 170
• Primary sources p. 170
• Scholarship and social software p. 172
• What librarians can do to prepare for the future p. 175
• Summary p. 176
• 9 Summary and conclusions p. 177
• Scholars and scholarly communication p. 178
• Scholarly journals p. 180
• Publishing: the scholarly' mission, and the multi-billion-dollar industry p. 183
• Librarians and libraries p. 189
• Authors' rights and intellectual property p. 191
• Open access p. 196
• The economics of scholarly communication in transition p. 203
• Emerging trends p. 207
• Conclusions p. 208
• Appendices
• Appendix I Budapest, Bethesda, Berlin: the BBB definition of open access p. 211
• Appendix II DOAJ environmental sciences p. 215
• Appendix III Brisbane Declaration p. 219
• Appendix IV Bangalore Statement: a national open access policy for developing countries p. 221
• References and web addresses p. 223
• References p. 223
• Selected web addresses p. 232
• Index p. 237