Related Readings and Sites
Organizations in support of Institutional Repositories
- SPARC "SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system. Developed by the Association of Research Libraries, SPARC has become a catalyst for change."
- Digital Curation Centrea UK-based center to support expertise and practice in data curation and digital preservation across communities of practice
- Create Change, supported by ACRL "A resource for faculty and librarian action to reclaim scholarly communication..."
- Directory of Open Access Journalscategorized, searchable links to free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals
- SHERPA/RoMEO Databasepublishers' and journals' policies on open access
- DRIVERDigital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research
- Open StudentsStudents for open access to research
Readings
- University Publishing in a Digital Age, a report from Ithaka University by Laura Brown, Rebecca Griffiths and Matthew Rascoff
- D-Lib Magazine, supported by the Corporation for National Research Initiativeselectronic publication with a primary focus on digital library research and development
- Registry of Open Access Repositories Institutional Policy Map (ROARMAP) institutional policies on open access
- A Very Brief Introduction to Open Accessfor more on open access: a brief introduction by Peter Suber
Contact your Community's ScholarSpace administrator or write sspace@hawaii.edu if you have questions about ScholarSpace policies.
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