LIS520 Janes

The Scholarly Journal, Structure and History

readings

Harmon, Joseph E., “The Literature of Enlightenment: Technical Periodicals and Proceedings in the 17^th and 18^th Centuries”, Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 17, 397-405, 1987.

Osburn, Charles B., “The Place of the Journal in the Scholarly Communications System”, Library Resources & Technical Services, 315-324, October/December 1984.

Richardson, John V., Jr. and Charles E. Meier. 1998. Scholarly journal decision making: a graphic representation. Library Quarterly 68: v-viii.

McCook, Alison, “Is Peer Review Broken?”, The Scientist 20 (2), February 2006

Schaffner, Ann C. “The Future of Scientific Journals: Lessons from the Past”, Information Technology and Libraries 13 (4), 239ff, December 1994

Lynch, Clifford A. "Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age" ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC p. 1-7 (February 2003)

FAQ from the Public Library of Science

Tectonic Shifts in Scholarly Publishing The Charleston Advisor April 2005

Scholarly Publishing Statement of Principles, Univ of California Berkeley Faculty Senate

history

Origin of the Scholarly Journal (part of the Changing Nature of the Scholarly Journal, Karen MacDonnell, Univ of British Columbia)

The Transformation of the Scholarly Journal (part of PhD dissertation of Andrew Treloar, Monash University, Australia)

current efforts and potential futures (look in depth at at least 1 of these projects in addition to PLoS)

The Public Library of Science and an article about it Case, Mary M. "Public access to scientific information: Are 22,700 scientists wrong?" C&RL News 62(7) (July/August 2001): 706-709,716.

The arXiv.org e-Print archive

JSTOR The Scholarly Journal Archive (UW subscribes to this, which gives you access to things we pay for, searchable here) and an article about it Carlson, Scott. "JSTOR's Journal-Archiving Service Makes Fans of Librarians and Scholars" Chronicle of Higher Education 47(46) (July 27, 2001): A26-A28

Project MUSE

Highwire Press (Stanford Univ)

Crow, Raym. A Guide to Institutional Repository Software. 2nd ed New York: Open Society Institute, 2004

questions for class discussion

What are scholarly journals for? What purposes do they serve?

Why did they arise? What needs did they satisfy, and what circumstances or forces supported their development?

What are the components of a journal? Of a journal article?

How does an article get published; what’s the process that has to be gone through?

Then what happens to that article, after publication? What other processes go on, post-publication, to enable it to be retrieved, accessed and used?

Why do journals cost so much?

What is happening to the scholarly journal? How is it changing, evolving? What new models are being proposed? Will the PLoS succeed? What would success look like?

collections of interest or note

IPL Online Serials Collection

E-journals available at UW (some UW restricted)

Questia

Yahoo! category on Magazines (zines)

other background readings

Schonfeld, Roger C., Donald W. King, and Ann Okerson, et. al. "The Nonsubscription Side of Periodicals: Changes in Library Operations and Costs between Print and Electronic Formats" Council on Library and Information Resources (June 2004)

Alves, Rosental Calmon. "Many Newspaper Sites Still Cling to Once-a-Day Publish Cycle" Online Journalism Review (21 July 2004)

Tenopir, et al, “Patterns of Journal Use by Scientists through Three Evolutionary Phases”, Dlib 9 (5), May 2003

Smith, Abby. New-Model Scholarship: How Will It Survive? Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resources, March 2003

Suber, Peter. "NIH Open-Access Plan: Frequently Asked Questions" (2004)

Peek, Robin, “Can Science and Nature Be Trumped?” Information Today 20(2), Feb 2003

Gass & Doyle, “The Reality of Open Access Journals” Chronicle of Higher Education 2/18/05

Guterman, Lila. "Scientific Societies' Publishing Arms Unite Against Open-Access Movement" The Chronicle of Higher Education 50(29) (26 March 2004): A20.

“Evolution or revolution: the future of scholarly publishing” By Paul Harwood, Free Pint 108 (March 21, 2002)