New approaches to scholarly communication are featured in the June 2008 issue of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Bimonthly Report, no. 258.
In the lead article, Duke University Scholarly Communications Officer Kevin L. Smith offers pragmatic strategies that authors and their institutions can use to manage authors' copyrights to fulfill the requirements of the new National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy. Although the strategies explored are focused on meeting the NIH's article deposit requirement, they could also be employed to accomplish a more comprehensive strategy for public dissemination of research.
Karla L. Hahn, Director of ARL's Office of Scholarly Communication, discusses the results of her study of publishing services provided by ARL member libraries. She notes that adopting new roles in producing journals is the latest in a series of library contributions to disseminating scholarly journal articles. She encourages library and campus leaders "to give thoughtful consideration to the potential, the goals, the resource needs, and the value of investing in and fostering this rapidly evolving mode of university publishing.
Additionally, brief summaries are provided of the recently released SPARC-Science Commons guide to creating institutional open access policies and of ARL's new agenda for developing research library support for e-science. This issue is freely available online at http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/br/br258.shtml.
ARL is a nonprofit organisation of 123 research libraries in North America. It seeks to influence the changing environment of scholarly communication and the public policies that affect research libraries and the diverse communities they serve.
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