CrossRef: Improving scholarly communications

Designing scholarly communications

This paper presents suggestions for the design of a scholarly communications system for the IFIP Working Group 8.2 (WG8.2) community. Learned societies such as IFIP have long been important in the system of scholarly communications. With the affordances of the Internet, WG8.2 can play a larger role in promoting scholarly communications to achieve multiple goals: dissemination and archiving of q...

Scholarly Communications is Not Toxic Waste:

Germany is a most appropriate place for this exploration. Johannes Gutenberg’s western invention of the printing press about 1450 made the Renaissance possible and the printed text both possible and affordable. Martin Luther’s insistence fifty years later that the written word was not a danger to people and that the Bible and other texts should be “unchained” and made available in the vernacula...

Scholarly communications program: force for change

The changing landscape of scholarly publication and increasing journal costs have resulted in a need for proactive behavior in libraries. At Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, a group of librarians joined forces to bring these issues to the attention of faculty and to begin a dialog leading to change. This commentary describes a comprehensive program undertaken to raise faculty aw...

Open Access publishing and scholarly communications in non-scientific disciplines

The Library as an agent for transforming scholarly communications