The Crisis in Scholarly Communication:

Impact and Solutions for the Iowa Regent Universities

A web site created and maintained by the Board of Regents, State of Iowa's Interinstitutional Task Force on Scholarly Communication 

 What is the crisis in scholarly communication and what can you do about it?

• What are the origins of the crisis?
• What can you do about the crisis in scholarly communication?

Further reading on the crisis in scholarly communication and proposed solutions:

• "To Publish and Perish."Policy Perspectives, March 1998, Volume 7, No. 4.
• "Scholarly Communication and the Need for Collective Action." A statement by the Chief Academic Officers of the Big 12.
• "Reforming Scholarly Publishing in the Sciences: A Librarian Perspective." Notices of the American Mathematical Society, April 1998, Volume 45, No. 4
• "A Provost Challenges His Faculty to Keep Copyright on Journal Articles." The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 18, 1998, Volume XLV, No. 4
• "SPARC Whitepaper." From the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
• "Moving with Dispatch to Resolve the Scholarly Communication Crisis: From Here to NEAR." By David Shulenberger, Provost, University of Kansas.
• "When Libraries Faced the Future." By Ron Feemster. University Business, Spring 2000.
• "Create Change: A Resource for Faculty and Librarian Action to Reclaim Scholarly Communication."
• "Principles for Emerging Systems of Scholarly Publishing."

Comments or Questions? Contact one of the Task Force Co-Chairs:

• David Hopper, Professor, Vice-President, Iowa State University Faculty Senate
• Edward Shreeves, Associate Director, University of Iowa Library

Strategic planCrisis in scholarly communicationTask force membersOrigins of crisisWhat you can doISU Faculty Senate Committee   Library Information     Reports

Printer-friendly version    |    e-Library entrance   |   Site Search   |   Site map   |   Top

Last modified: Thursday, 01-May-2003 07:21:44 CDT
Copyright © 2000-2008, Iowa State University. All rights reserved.