Scholarly Communication » Uncategorized http://scholarly.lib.purdue.edu/blog Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:34:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 An Online Tutorial on the Fundamentals of Scholarly Publishing http://scholarly.lib.purdue.edu/blog/2009/05/13/an-online-tutorial-on-the-fundamentals-of-scholarly-publishing/ http://scholarly.lib.purdue.edu/blog/2009/05/13/an-online-tutorial-on-the-fundamentals-of-scholarly-publishing/#comments Wed, 13 May 2009 21:41:27 +0000 Mark Newton http://scholarly.lib.purdue.edu/blog/?p=43 Conceived and provided by the University of Colorado libraries, Publish, Not Perish is a free online tutorial that provides an engaging overview of the fundamentals of the scholarly publishing process. Targeted to untenured faculty and graduate students alike, the five module tutorial begins with a broad overview of the players and processes involved in scholarly publishing before moving into such specifics as performing a literature review, developing research topics, and tracking the stages of article publication. In addition, the tutorial covers the relevant scholarly communication topic of open access publishing. Jennifer E. Knievel provides additional background on the impetus for creating the tutorial and details on its reception in an article entitled “Instruction to Faculty and Graduate Students: A Tutorial to Teach Publication Strategies,” which appeared in portal: Libraries and the Academy. 

]]> http://scholarly.lib.purdue.edu/blog/2009/05/13/an-online-tutorial-on-the-fundamentals-of-scholarly-publishing/feed/ 0 Publisher-Author Agreements and the NIH Public Access Policy http://scholarly.lib.purdue.edu/blog/2008/08/18/publisher-author-agreements-and-the-nih-public-access-policy/ http://scholarly.lib.purdue.edu/blog/2008/08/18/publisher-author-agreements-and-the-nih-public-access-policy/#comments Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:48:59 +0000 Kayla Gregory http://scholarly.lib.purdue.edu/blog/2008/08/18/publisher-author-agreements-and-the-nih-public-access-policy/ ARL Releases New Analysis

Washington DC–The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released "PubMed Central Deposit and Author Rights: Agreements between 12 Publishers and the Authors Subject to the NIH Public Access Policy," by Ben Grillot, MLS (Maryland 2002), second-year student at the George Washington University Law School, and legal intern for ARL.

To help authors make informed choices about their rights, Grillot compares how the agreements of 12 publishers permit authors to meet the requirements of the recently revised National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy and share their works while they are under embargo. The NIH Public Access Policy requires authors of NIH-funded research to deposit their works in PubMed Central and make them publicly available within 12 months of publication.

Grillot focuses his analysis on how the agreements differ in: the terms and procedures of deposit of the work, the length of any embargo period, and the rights of the author to use and share the work during the embargo period. Grillot presents summary tables that clearly show the similarities and differences across agreements. He also analyzes the implications of these agreements.

Grillot concludes that the significant variability in publisher agreements requires authors with NIH funding to closely examine publisher agreements and the rights granted and retained when deciding where to publish their research. His analysis of these 12 agreements will help authors determine what to look for in an agreement and what questions to ask before signing.

"PubMed Central Deposit and Author Rights" is available for free download from the ARL Web site at http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/grillot-pubmed.pdf. It will also be included in a forthcoming issue of ARL: A Bimonthly Report.

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 123 research libraries in North America. Its mission is to influence the changing environment of scholarly communication and the public policies that affect research libraries and the diverse communities they serve. ARL pursues this mission by advancing the goals of its member research libraries, providing leadership in public and information policy to the scholarly and higher education communities, fostering the exchange of ideas and expertise, and shaping a future environment that leverages its interests with those of allied organizations. ARL is on the Web at http://www.arl.org/.

For more information, contact:
Karla Hahn
Association of Research Libraries
202-296-2296
karla@arl.org

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Mike Rossner, Heather Van Epps, and Emma Hill reported on their inability to verify published impact factors using data provided provided by ISI.    In their report, they note that they were unable to replicate published impact factors for their own and other journals,  found numerous and serious errors in several data sets provided by ISI, and call into question the validity of both ISI’s dataset and their published impact factors.  

The editorial by Mike Rossner, Heather Van Epps, and Emma Hill was published in the Journal of Cell Biology and is available at http://www.jcb.org/cgi/content/full/179/6/1091 

–Beth McNeil (with content from Karla Hahn, ARL)

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