• ACRL Efforts

ACRL Scholarly Communication Site

• ARL Efforts

Best Practices in Campus Advocacy : Report from SPARC/ACRL Forum at ALA/CLA Annual Conference, June 21, 2003

The Case of Institutional Repositories : A SPARC Position Paper (pdf)

Issues in Scholarly Communication

Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)

SPARC Institutional Repository Checklist & Resource Guide, November 2002

• Background Research Articles, Bibliographies, and Website

List of Articles on Citation Impact and Open Access  / by the Open Citation Project

Institutional Repositories / by Roy Tennant

 Institutional Repositories: Hidden Treasures / by Miriam A. Drake

 IRs: Partnering with Faculty to Enhance Scholarly Communication / by Richard Johnson

Further Information on Institutional Repositories / a Web site compiled by Robert H. McDonald

Universities' own electronic repositories yet to impact on Open Access / by Mark Ware (as seen in Nature)

Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)

Shrepa/Romeo Database

Removing the Barriers: An Introduction to Open Access for Librarians, by Peter Suber
(essay forthcoming in College & Research Libraries News, 64 (February 2003) pp. 92-94, 113.)

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography / Charles W. Bailey, Jr.