Scholarly Communication

A compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship maintained by the OA community.

Association of College & Research Libraries toolkit organized for administrators, faculty and librarians. "The Toolkit was designed to provide its users with a basic understanding of scholarly communication issues in the context of their impact upon libraries. For every issue covered here, users will find a brief introduction to the issue along with links to additional resources that have been curated and reviewed for relevancy, currency, and accuracy."

SPARC is a global coalition committed to making Open the default for research and education. SPARC empowers people to solve big problems and make new discoveries through the adoption of policies and practices that advance Open Access, Open Data, and Open Education.

Provides free access to a subset of the ISSN register that have been identified as open access. Search by journal or ISSN or topic.

Information about the status and growth of open access repositories throughout the world.

SPARC is a global coalition committed to making Open the default for research and education. SPARC empowers people to solve big problems and make new discoveries through the adoption of policies and practices that advance Open Access, Open Data, and Open Education.

The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), founded in 1978, is a nonprofit organization formed to promote and advance communication among all sectors of the scholarly publication community through networking, information dissemination, and facilitation of new developments in the field.

"OASPA is a diverse community of organisations engaged in open scholarship with a mission to encourage and enable open access as the predominant model of communication for scholarly outputs."

Promoting integrity in research and its publication. COPE provides leadership in thinking on publication ethics, practical resources to educate and support members, and offers a professional voice in current debates.

COAR brings together the repository community and major repository networks in order build capacity, align policies and practices, and act as a global voice for the repository community.

COAPI brings together representatives from North American universities with established faculty open access policies and those in the process of developing such policies. It was formed to share information and experiences and to illuminate opportunities for moving faculty-led open access forward at member institutions and advocating for open access nationally and internationally. COAPI will offer a collection of best and evolving practices to act as a roadmap for inspiring, promoting and implementing open access policies at institutions without existing or effective open access policies.

VIVA is the consortium of non-profit academic libraries within the Commonwealth of Virginia. VIVA libraries provide borrowing privileges to the ODU community through the Cooperative Borrowing Program.

ChronosHub enables authors to select suitable journals for their manuscript submissions by making funding policies and institutional agreements transparent. Through a collaborative approach, ChronosHub streamlines the workflow for institutions, publishers and funders for an effective APC management, OA agreement monitoring, funding policy compliance, repository deposits and OA reporting.

ALPSP is the international trade association which supports and represents not-for-profit organizations that publish scholarly and professional content, and those that work with them.

The official blog of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) established to keep interested stakeholders aware of publishing trends and developments.

A blog maintained by Cambridge University Office of Scholarly Communication covering topics such as open research, open access, and research data management.

The Author's Alliance helps authors understand their rights and promotes sharing authors' creations broadly.

The primary means of communicating with VIVA participants throughout the Commonwealth. In addition to posting VIVA committee meeting announcements and minutes, other important announcements are made on this list, and committees often request comments from the VIVA community via this listserv. We encourage all members of the Virginia academic library community and VIVA vendors to subscribe. (To subscribe to VAVIRTUA-L, please send a request to be added to the list to viva@gmu.edu.) See other VIVA Listservs: vivalib.org/va/about/contacts

Launched in 2010, Retraction Watch is a freely available blog, with a goal of publicizing all fraud-prompted retractions that appear in scientific literature. You may subscribe to the RW Daily blog.

LibLicense-L Discussion Forum includes many issues relating to scholarly communication, publishing, and copyright. Subscirbe at https://liblicense.crl.edu/discussion-forum/subscribe/

Ithaka S+R focuses on research, projects, and support for four strategic areas including access and success, organizational leadership, collections and preservation, and research and teaching practices.

Choice is a publishing unit of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and offers webinars, podcasts, and publications on a wide variety of subjects pertinent to academic libraries, including scholarly communication.

"NASA's Transform to Open Science (TOPS) initiative is designed to transform agencies, organizations, and communities to an inclusive culture of open science."

"The Scholarly Communication Notebook (SCN) [is] an in-development repository of community-designed and curated open resources for teaching about scholarly communication and for doing scholarly communication work in libraries."

National Library of Medicine (NLM) upcoming and past webinars and classes.

Association of College & Research Libraries toolkit organized for administrators, faculty and librarians. "The Toolkit was designed to provide its users with a basic understanding of scholarly communication issues in the context of their impact upon libraries. For every issue covered here, users will find a brief introduction to the issue along with links to additional resources that have been curated and reviewed for relevancy, currency, and accuracy."

Announcements for and recordings of training and webinars provided by ASERL, including topics in scholarly communication, are available on their website.

Lyrasis works "with knowledge professionals to create, support and deliver innovative programs, services and technologies that allow for equitable access to the world's knowledge and cultural heritage."