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Scholarly Communication for Librarians

Heather Morrison, University of British Columbia, Canada

Chandos Information Professional Series

The most satisfying aspect of Scholarly Communication for Librarians is Morrison's evaluation of the roles librarians can play as scholars writing, archivists managing repositories, acqusitions experts purchasing, authorities on publishing advising faculty, reference librarians answering research questions, and advocates of open access pushing for publishing models that support availability of information over profit for private investors.
Digital Library Archives

One of the book's strongest chapters examines the economics of scholarly journals using the concept of the cost per article of producing articles in various types of journals.
Digital Library Archives

The book is easy to read and most importantly provides practical coverage of a topic that is of interest to librarians and other information professionals.
Library Management

I have rarely read such a straightforward account of the trends in modern scholarly communication for librarians and particularly for academic librarians. Books like this one - transparent and clear - are very welcome and should be publicized as widely as possible.
Information Research

 - explains complex concepts in a clear, concise manner
 - designed to quickly bring the reader up to speed on scholarly communications
 - written by a well-known international expert on scholarly communications and open access

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.

Readership: Academic librarians, academics, special librarians, anyone with an interest in scholarly communications.

£49.50 / US$85.00 / €60.00

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About the author

Heather Morrison is a Project Coordinator with BC Electronic Library Network and Adjunct Faculty with the University of British Columbia’s School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, where she has developed new courses on scholarly communications and open access. Heather is very well-known as an open access advocate; links to Heather’s extensive publications and presentations in this area can be found from her scholarly blog, The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com

Titles which may also be of interest:
Academic and Professional Publishing
The Ecology of Academic Journals
Scholarly Communication in Library and Information Services
Scholarly Communication in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea and Taiwan

Contents

Scholarship and scholarly communication
 - Impact factor and promotion
 - Scholarly communication
 - Disciplinary differences
 - Summary

Scholarly journals
 - Starting and running a journal
 - Producing a journal
 - The diversity of scholarly journals
 - Summary

Publishing: the scholarly mission, and the multi-billion-dollar industry
 - Scholarly publishing today: an overview
 - Emerging trends: library as publisher and publishing cooperatives
 - Summary

Libraries and librarians
 - Librarians as scholars
 - Librarians, scholarship and evidence-based practice
 - Library collections from print to online
 - The library as support for scholarly communication
 - Library publishing services
 - Institutional repositories
 - Summary

Authors’ rights and intellectual property
 - What is intellectual property and what is copyright?
 - Two basic types of rights: moral and economic
 - Intellectual property and copyright are rapidly evolving
 - Scholarship and knowledge
 - Intellectual property: what matters to the scholar
 - Scholarly publishing and intellectual property
 - Librarians and intellectual property
 - Summary

Open access
 - What is open access?
 - The benefits of open access
 - Open Archives Initiative and OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
 - Green: open access archives
 - Gold: open access publishing – environmental sciences case study
 - Open access policy
 - Anti-OA lobbying
 - The dramatic growth of open access
 - Learning more and keeping up
 - Summary

The economics of scholarly communications in transition
 - Macroeconomics, the scholarly publishing industry and libraries
 - Keys to a leading-edge future for scholarly communication
 - Affordability
 - Library resources in transition
 - Licensing/procurement: towards alternative publishing and open access
 - Library consortia support for open access and alternative publishing
 - Preparing for the future: roles for library management
 - Summary

Emerging trends and formats
 - Evolving journals
 - Open monographs, open textbooks and education, open and shareable learning objects
 - Citations and impact
 - Thinking about scholarship
 - Collapsing boundaries
 - Data and open data
 - Large-scale library content online
 - Primary sources
 - Scholarship and social software
 - What librarians can do to prepare for the future
 - Summary

Summary and conclusions
 - Scholars and scholarly communication
 - Scholarly journals
 - Publishing: the scholarly mission, and the multi-billion-dollar industry
 - Librarians and libraries
 - Authors’ rights and intellectual property
 - Open access
 - The economics of scholarly communication in transition
 - Emerging trends
 - Conclusions

Appendices
 - Appendix I: Budapest, Bethesda, Berlin: the BBB definition of open access
 - Appendix II: DOAJ environmental sciences
 - Appendix III: Brisbane Declaration
 - Appendix IV: Bangalore Statement: a national open access policy for developing countries

References and web addresses
 - References
 - Selected web addresses