Scholarly Publishing Webliography

General Sources
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
Open Access Newsletter - www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/ (OA overview, timeline, blog, etc.) and
Advocacy Resources - http://www.arl.org/sparc
Medical Library Association - http://www.mlanet.org/resources/publish/pub_resources.html
Open Access Now - www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess 

NIH Public Access Policy
NIH Public Access Policy Becomes Mandatory - article by Mary Ryan, Library Director
Full-text of the law – http://publicaccess.nih.gov
The Policy – http://publicaccess.nih.gov/policy.htm
How to comply – http://publicaccess.nih.gov
How to deposit articles – www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/education/pmc
FAQ – http://publicaccess.nih.gov/FAQ.htm

Open Access Publishers
Directory of Open Access Journals - www.doaj.org
BioMed Central - www.biomedcentral.com/
PLoS - www.plos.org

Support for Open Access
Budapest Open Access Initiative - www.soros.org/openaccess/
Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing - www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/bethesda.htm
The Alliance for Taxpayer Access - www.taxpayeraccess.org
Students – www.arl.org/sparc/students
NIH Statement on Sharing Research Data
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-03-032.html
NIH Policy on Enhancing Public Access to Archived Publications Resulting from NIH-Funded Research
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-08-033.html
United Kingdom Research Funders – www.biomedcentral.com/info/about/pr-releases?pr=20061002c
Wellcome Trust Policy - http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_WTD002766.html
Howard Hughes Medical Institute - http://www.hhmi.org/news/springer20070927.html

Scholarly Society/Association Viewpoints
DC Principles (society/association publishers) - http://www.dcprinciples.org//

Impact Factors
The Impact of Open Access Journals: A Citation Study from Thompson ISI
www.isinet.com/forms/whitepapers/
PLoS Impact Factor editorial
http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0030291
Eigenfactor - http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues2007/may07/eigenfactor.cfm
H Index - http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/102/46/16569

Repositories
Registry of Open Access Repositories – http://roar.eprints.org/
PubMed Central - www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov
BioMed Central Open Repository - www.biomedcentral.com/openrepository/ 
Digital Commons – http://www.bepress.com/ir/  

Copyright & Intellectual Property
SHERPA - www.sherpa.ac.uk (contains information on publishers’ copyright policies & use restrictions)
U of Rochester - http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/hslt/miner/research_and_publishing/PublishersPoliciesonPubMed
CentralMinerLibrary.cfm
Author Rights Information from SPARC - : http://www.arl.org/sparc/author/index.html
UAMS Patent and Copyright Committee - http://www.uams.edu/patent/
UAMS Copyright Policy - http://www.library.uams.edu/policy/copyright.aspx
Creative Commons - http://creativecommons.org/learn/aboutus/   

Social Networking Systems
BioMedExperts – www.biomedexperts.com
                                                                                               
                                                                                                                Mary Ryan – January 2008
                                                                                                                 RyanMaryL@uams.edu