General
Know Your Copy Rights, managed by the Association of Research Libraries, looks at copyright from the perspectives of all key academic stakeholders and offers a range of tools for organizing copyright outreach programs on college campuses.
SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), an alliance of universities, research libraries, and organizations, was established to act upon scholarly communications alternatives as early as in 1997. It can now offer many resources.
Create Change is an organization supported by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and advocating a change in traditional scholarly communication. It offers information about different new ways for communicating scholarly communication.
ACRL Scholarly Communication Toolkit
Copyright
The official site of the US Copyright Office.
What is Copyright? Presented by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), operated by the United Nations.
A Crash Course in Copyright, by the University of Texas .
A table by Lolly Gasaway from the University of North Carolina , explaining When Works Pass into the Public Domain.
Duke University presents: Center for the Study of the Public Domain, including "comic book exploring the impacts of intellectual property on creativity - specifically, documentary film."
Professors, ASU president contribute to new IP handbook: News item from the Biodesign Institute.
Fair Use
Copyright Law of the United States of America , § 107: Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use.
Stanford University Libraries webliography for copyright and fair use.
Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials (linked from University of Texas' Crash Course in Copyright)
TEACH Act
Copyright Law of the United States of America , § 110: Limitations on exclusive rights: Exemption of certain performances and displays
Distance Education and the TEACH Act, offered by the American Library Association.
The TEACH Toolkit, an Online Resource for understanding Copyright and Distance Education, by North Carolina State University.
Retain Your Copyright
SPARC Author Addendum
Scholar's Copyright Addendum Engine - The Scholar's Copyright Addendum Engine will help you generate a PDF form that you can attach to a journal publisher's copyright agreement to ensure that you retain certain rights.
Open Access Journals
Directory of Open Access Journals
The Open Citation Project offers Reference Linking and Citation Analysis for Open Archives.
Budapest Open Access Initiative
Alliance for Taxpayer Access: information about FRPAA
Text Book Revolution
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography.
Open Access Overview: written by Peter Suber
Self-Archiving
Open Archives Initiative
Open DOAR lists open access repositories around the world, after harvesting and assigning metadata to the items.
SHERPA, a UK-based organization, is facilitating open-access institutional repositories in research universities.
Eprints Journal Policies: a list of publishers that allow self archiving.
Library Subscriptions and licenses
" Libraries take a stand: Journals present rising costs to libraries - and to scholarship", Harvard Gazette , February 05, 2004.
The UW-Madison Journal Value Project (Barschall factor) database offers data from 2004 for titles to which UW-Madison subscribes (some content is blocked from public access).
Scholarly Journal Prices: Selected Trends and Comparisons, offered by LISU, a research and information centre for library and information services, based in the Department of Information Science at Loughborough University (UK).
" Authors and Authority: Perspectives on Negotiating Licenses and Copyright." A podcast of a SPARC/ARL forum held at ALA Midwinter 2006.
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