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Welch Journal Club

August 20, 2007

Barbara Koehler, Publications Specialist, Welch Medical Library

The subject is an Introduction to Scholarly Communication Issues and I would like to send the brief attachment for them to read and then the following: Read "Open Access: Implications for Scholarly Publishing and Medical Libraries" by Karen M. Albert, JMLA, July 2006. 94(3): 253-262. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1525322 Other good overviews: "Framing the Issue: Open Access" http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/framing_issue_may04.pdf "The Scholarly Communication Movement: Highlights and Recent Developments" by SS Bergman from Collection Building, vol. 25, no. 4, 2006, pp. 108-28 "What you can do to promote Open Access" - Peter Suber (Read sections on Faculty and Librarians, 1-11) www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/do.htm

Readings:

• Scott Aaronson, post-doc at University of Waterloo in Canada, has written a review of John Willinsky's The Access Principle. In the review, he tells this story:
• Open Access: Implications for Scholarly Publishing and Medical Libraries
• Framing the Issue: Open Access
• What you can do to promote open access