This is the "Home" page of the "Scholarly Communication & Related Issues" guide.
Alternate Page for Screenreader Users
Skip to Page Navigation
Skip to Page Content
* UC Irvine access only
Scholarly communication is the life-blood of the university’s teaching and research mission. Issues of copyright, intellectual property rights, and the long-term preservation of digital assets are posing new challenges to faculty, schools, & librarians.
Last Updated: Feb 7, 2013 URL: http://libguides.lib.uci.edu/ScholarlyCommunication Print Guide RSS UpdatesShareThis

Home Print Page
  Search: 
 
 

Best Practices for Fair Use in Copyright

ARL Code of Best Practices for Fair USe for Academic and Resaerch Libraries

Webinar that summarizes Fair USe for Copyrighted material. The video runs 1:00 hour.

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries, a clear and easy-to-use statement of fair and reasonable approaches to fair use to support academic inquiry and higher education. 

 

Important Related Resources

The UCI SCAMP Website is the major source of events and news regarding Scholarly Communications issues at UCI.

  • SCAMP Website
    UCI's base of information on Scholary Communications and related issues.
  • UCI DIgital Scholarship Services
    The UCI Libraries Digital Scholarship Service helps the UC Irvine community publish, share and preserve the digital products of research.
  • UCISpace@the Libraries
    UCIspace @ the Libraries is an open access service for the UCI community to publish, manage, and preserve diverse kinds of research output.


  • UC eScholarship
    eScholarship is the CDL Publishing Group’s open access scholarly publishing platform, providing digital publishing services to the University of California and delivering a dynamic research platform to scholars worldwide
  • UC Pubs
    A collaboration between the CDL’s Publishing Group and UC Press, UCPubS offers UC departments, research units, and publishing programs the flexibility to provide free digital access to their book projects while retaining the ability to sell print copies.

 

Open Access Policy 2012 for University of California

2012 UC Open Access Policy Proposal

In the Spring of 2012, the faculty of the University of California will be discussing an Open Access policy for the university. The effort is being coordinated by the University Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication and will result in a draft policy for consideration by the system-wide faculty Senate and the campuses beginning as early as possible. To learn more about this discussion, please download the document below which contains background, a model policy and a number of "Frequently Asked Questions" about open access generally, UC-specific issues of policy and implementation.

Questions, suggestions, criticisms or ideas should be forwarded to your campus COLASC representative.

Latest news and updates from Regaining Control of Schoalry Communications

 

What is Scholarly Communications?

Scholarly Communications is used to describe the process of academics, scholars and researchers have for sharing and publishing their  their research findings so that they are available to the wider academic community.  Extending that definition, scholarly communications is also about the creation, transformation, dissemination and preservation of knowledge related to teaching, research and scholarly endeavors. The background for this was the escalating prices that libraries were paying for "buying back" research that was conducted at their institutions by their own faculty members.  Today, the notion of scholarly communications includes a call for sustainable pricing from scholarly and commercial publishers.  It also encourages the awareness of the creation, transformation, dissemination and preservation of knowledge related to teaching, research and scholarly endeavors. 

An understanding of scholarly communications assumes familiarity with:

  • author rights
  • the economics of scholarly resources
  • new models of publishing
  • open access
  • institutional repositories
  • rights and access to federally funded research
  • preservation of intellectual assets
  • copyright
  • plagiarism

Basic resources about Scholarly Communications include the following recommended materials:

 

Associations & Organizations

  • ARL
    ARL is a nonprofit organization of 123 research libraries at comprehensive, research-extensive institutions in the US and Canada that share similar research missions, aspirations, and achievements. ARL has created SPARC as the umbrella for its scholarly communications activities.
  • SPARC (Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition
    SPARC is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system. Developed by ARL, it has become a catalyst for change. Action by SPARC in collaboration with stakeholders--including authors, publishers, and libraries--builds on the unprecedented opportunities created by the networked digital environment to advance the conduct of scholarship. Leading academic organizations have endorsed SPARC.

  • SPARC Campus-based Publishing Resource Center
    Provides information for libraries, presses, and other academic units interested in launching and maintaining campus-based publishing partnerships.
  • Create Change
    An educational initiative that examines opportunities in scholarly communication, advocates changes that recognize the potential of the networked digital environment, and encourages active participation by scholars and researchers to guide change. Initiated by the ARL.
  • Digital Scholarship
    Provides information and commentary about copyright, digital rights management, network neutrality, open access, and scholarly electronic publishing issues.
  • Scholarly Communication Institute
    Provides opportunities for leaders in scholarly disciplines, academic libraries, advanced technologies, and higher education administration to study, develop, and implement creative strategies to advance scholarly communication.
  • SHERPA
    SHERPA is investigating issues in the future of scholarly communication. It is developing open-access institutional repositories in universities to facilitate the rapid and efficient worldwide dissemination of research.
 

Help

To get help with any of these databases, or if you have problems logging in contact:

  • Mitchell Brown
  • 230 Francisco J. Ayala Science Library
  • Office: 949-824-9732
  • mcbrown@uci.edu

 

Description

Loading  Loading...

Tip