USMAI Supports Open Access Publishers

BioMed Central: The Open Access Publisher

In August of 2004, USMAI joined BioMed Central in support of open access publishing. USMAI's institutional membership provides access to BioMed's open access journals for faculty, students and staff as well as a 15% discount on subscriptions to BioMed's fee-based content. In addition, authors based at member institutions receive free article processing; open access to their original research for anyone with Internet access; the probability of increased citations because of wider availablity; inclusion of their research in PubMed; right to retain copyright of their own work; ability to access statistics on how often their work is viewed; and permanent and secure electronic archiving of articles in PubMed Central. For more information on authorship with BioMed Central please see www.biomedcentral.com/info/authors/.

• Fourteen Maryland Institutions Sign up to BioMed Central
• UMB Authors Have Free Publication Access to BioMed Central!

Public Library of Science (PLOS)

Founded in 2000 by Harold Varmus, Patrick Brown and Michael Eisen with the goal of promoting free and open access to scientific knowledge through alternative publishing models, PLOS, a non-profit organization, launched its inaugural journal PLOS Biology in 2003. PLOS is at the forefront of addressing the current issues in scholarly communication facing the scientific and academic communities. PLOS continues to work on open access projects with the recent launch of PLOS Medicine. In support of PLOS, USMAI became an institutional member in 2004. With USMAI membership, faculty receive a 50% discounted publication rate on work submitted to PLOS journals. For more information on the benefits of USMAI membership, please see www.plos.org/support/instmembership.html.

USMAI Sites

Center for Intellectual Property and Copyright in the Digital Environment

The Office of Academic Affairs at University of Maryland University College runs this site with resources specifically related to copyright, fair use, and intellectual property rights. The site includes a link to the "Ask the IP Resource Specialist" service, an asynchronous digital forum for questions and issues related to intellectual property.

Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery's Scholarly Communication Page

The Kuhn Library at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) scholarly communication site offers a broad view of current topics, organizations and initiatives, responses from the academic community and information on institutional respositories.

Scholarly Communication

Responding to the current state of scholarly communication and its impact on academic libraries, the University of Maryland Libraries at College Park has created a FAQ regarding recent changes to the Libraries' collections with links to library policies and additional scholarly communication resources.

Scholarly Communication in Transition

The University of Maryland's Health Sciences & Human Services Library provides detailed information on the current state of scholarly communication and how the Library is responding, with links to national and international projects promoting open access and alternative publishing models.

USMAI Resources

• CLD Scholarly Communication White Paper [.doc, 43KB]

Other Sites of Interest

• Alliance for Taxpayer Access
  
  
• Association of College & Research Libraries
  
  
• Association of Research Libraries
  
  
• Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities
  
  
• Bethesda Statement on Open Access
  
  
• Budapest Open Access Initiative
  
  
• Copyown: A resource on copyright ownership for the higher education community Sponsored by the University of Maryland and Association of Research Libraries
  
  
• Create Change Sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries, Association of College and Research Libraries, and SPARC
  
  
• Creative Commons
  
  
• DigitalKoans: What is the Sound of One E-print Downloading?
  
  
• Digital Library Federation
  
  
• Digital Repository at the University of Maryland (DRUM)
  
  
• Directory of Open Access Journals
  
  
• Information Access Alliance
  
  
• In Oldenburg's Long Shadow: Librarians, Research Scientists, Publishers, and the Control of Scientific Publishing by Jean-Claude Guédon, Université de Montréal
  
  
• Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age by Clifford A. Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information
  
  
• Liblicense: Licensing Digital Information
  
  
• LOCKSS
  
  
• National Institutes of Health (NIH) Policy on Enhancing Public Access to Archived Publications Resulting from NIH-Funded Research
  
  
• Open Access Webliography by Adrian K. Ho and Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
  
  
• OA Librarian: Open Access Resources for Librarians
  
  
• Portico
  
  
• Scientific Publications: Free for all? U.K. House of Commons, Science and Technology Committee
  
  
• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography by Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
  
  
• Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
  
  
• The Future of Scholarly Publishing From the Modern Language Association's Ad Hoc Committee on the Future of Scholarly Publishing
  
  
• University Libraries and Scholarly Communication Published by The Association of Research Libraries for The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
  
  
• Washington, D.C. Principles for Free Access to Science

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