Scholarly Communications

Covers topics in librarianship & publishing, including methods for dissemination of information, information exchange, curation of information, etc.

It is a peer-reviewed open-access publication for original articles, reviews and case studies that analyze or describe the strategies, partnerships and impact of copyright law on public, school, academic, and digital libraries, archives, museums, and research institutions and their educational initiatives.

Addresses the new challenges resulting from changes in technology, funding, and innovations in publishing.

A peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, Open Access online journal that publishes original contributions to the understanding of production, dissemination, and usage of knowledge.

The journal is an open access, peer-reviewed journal advancing the theory and practice of librarianship focusing on services related to data-driven research in science, technology, engineering, math, social sciences, medicine, and public health.

Each week, editors recruit the very best scholarly communication literature from across the Web, working with authors to make their research available, ensuring that librarians are connected to excellent research that’s relevant to their work.

The Open Access Tracking Project uses social tagging to compile and archive a comprehensive collection of news related to Open Access.

BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access).

The Open Access Directory (OAD) is a compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship, maintained by the OA community at large.

The Open Access Button is an app that helps researchers, patients, students and the public get legal access to research they need and request research be made available.

A browser extension that searches for an open access version of the article.

The Right to Research Coalition identifies 101 innovations with the promise to improve the future of scholarly communications.

Featuring Elizabeth Ault (Duke University Press) and Sara Jo Cohen (Temple University Press) in conversation with Richard Brown (Georgetown University Press) and Peter Ginna (previously with Oxford University Press).

Peter Suber, Director of the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication, discusses the current and future state of open access.

From the mediaX Conference “Platforms for Collaboration and Productivity”, John Willinsky with the Stanford Graduate School of Education discusses The The Public Knowledge Project, the world's most-widely used journal management system, and how this is among the initiatives contributing to a new age of public access to research and scholarship.