Scholarly Communication and Publishing

New NIH Reporting Requirement Effective April 7, 2008

Principal investigators must ensure that electronic versions of any peer-reviewed manuscripts arising from NIH funding and accepted for publication after April 7, 2008 are deposited in PubMed Central (PMC), NIH's digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

New! Toolkit for University of Utah Researchers on NIH Public Access

NIH Public Access:

NIH Reminder: Concerning Grantee Compliance with Public Access Policy and Related NIH Monitoring Activities
How do I submit my NIH funded article to PubMed Central?: NIH Public Manuscript Submission
FAQs on NIH Public Access
NIH Public Access Policy Overview
Publisher Policies
ARL's "NIH Public Access Policy: Guide for Research Universities"
Complying with NIH Public Access Policy: Copyright Consideration and Options: A white paper by Michael W. Carroll commissioned by SPARC, Creative Commons and ARL.

For Authors:

Can I post my article on the web?: Find Publisher Policies with SHERPA/RoMEO.
Keep your copy rights!: Author Rights (from SPARC®); Print theSPARC's Author Addendum.; Scholar's Copyright Addendum Engine (from Science Commons.); Create your own license with help from Creative Commons.; Copyright Links (courtesy Marriott Library); Publish Not Perish; An online tutorial aimed at introducing graduate students and other potential authors to the world of scholarly publishing from the University of Colorado libraries.; Questions? Send email to reference@lib.med.utah.edu

What's New:

Open Access Directory: "a compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship."
SCOAP3: A New Model for Scholarly Communication: an online preprint from ARL encouraging libraries to support SCOAP3, the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics.
"The Impact Factor Follies" -- Epidemiology questions the validity of the Impact Factor (4 brief commentaries.)
Open Doors and Open Minds: What faculty authors can do to ensure open access to their work through their insitution.: a SPARC / Science Commons white paper. April 2008.
Open Access News Blog
Publishing and Open Access, a PubMed search

Core Resources:

PubMed Central: "PMC is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's digital archive of life sciences journal literature. Access to PMC is free and unrestricted."
Public Library of Science, PLoS: "A non-profit organization of scientists committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a public resource." Subsidized by Eccles Health Sciences Library.
BioMed Central: Open access journals covering biology, medicine, and the life sciences. Links to work published by researchers at the University of Utah. Purchased by Marriott Library.
Directory of Open Access Journals
Highwire Press - Free Online Full-text Articles

Effecting Change:

SPARC: Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition is "dedicated to helping transform the scholarly communications market place and process."
Alliance for Taxpayer Access
Coalition for Networked Information
Create Change: "A resource for faculty and librarian action to reclaim scholarly communication."
Creative Commons: "is devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others to build upon and share." Learn More.

What Other Institutions Are Doing:

Cornell University: Issues in Scholarly Communication
Duke University, North Carolina University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Georgia State University Library
MIT
Ohio Higher Education, OhioLINK
UC Berkeley Scholarly Publishing
University of California Libraries

Slides & Videos of Presentations:

Author's Rights: A 2-minute video clip about retaining your copyright. 2008.
PLoS Editor, Barbara Cohen's presentation on open access. Video of October 7, 2004.: Or view her slides.
Saving Science, Saving Lives: Why Choices You Make When Publishing Matter.: PowerPoint presentaion of the Snyder Lecture, Infofair 2003 given by Mary Case.
Publishing as an Open Access Author. PowerPoint Slides from LIFT Forum, 2/11/04. RealMedia Video.
Our PowerPoint poster illustrates the old and new publishing models.: Please feel free to use and adapt this poster to the needs of your institution with proper credit to the author/creator.