Diane Goldenberg-Hart, Libraries and Changing Research Practices: A Report of the ARL/CNI Forum on E-Research and Cyberinfrastructure, ARL Bimonthly Report 237, December 2004. A report on the conference, E-Research and Supporting Cyberinfrastructure: A Forum to Consider the Implications for Research Libraries & Research Institutions (Washington, D.C., October 15, 2004). Excerpt: '[Clifford Lynch] emphasized the massive changes occurring in the practices of scholarship—changes that are occurring across all disciplines. He argued that new practices, products, and modes of documenting and communicating research will have far-reaching implications for all organizations involved in managing the scholarly record and supporting the ongoing enterprise of scholarship, and that libraries in particular are in a central role due to their perspectives of managing the record across time and across disciplines. These changes in scholarly practice will create profound changes throughout the entire system of scholarly communication, and a failure to put into place effective new support structures in response to these changes would pose tremendous risk to the enterprise of research and scholarship. "This is what is at stake when we consider how to lead our institutions in addressing these new needs," Lynch said. The role of libraries, he argued, will shift from primarily acquiring published scholarship to a broader role of managing scholarship in collaboration with the researchers that develop and draw upon it.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/14/2004 03:08:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
