The Future of Scholarly Communications
AAUP Strategic Plan
A 2007 examination of the changing eeds of the AAUP community and how the association can help meet those needs.
Institute for the Future of the Book
A "think-and-do tank" exploring and experimenting with the transition of intellectual discourse from print to network.
We're Not Dead Yet!
Barbara Fister and Niko Pfund
from The Library Journal, November 15, 2004
Universities and Their Presses in
Hard Economic Times
Peter Givler, 2004
University
Presses and Academic Libraries: Both 'Crisis' and Pie in the Sky
Rebecca Ann Bartlett
Choice, Summer 2004
2004 AAUP Presidential Address
Doug Armato, Director, University of Minnesota Press
Understanding the Economic Burden of Scholarly Publishing
Cathy N. Davidson
from The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 3, 2003
Crises and Opportunities: The Future(s) of Scholarly Publishing
This public session of the 2003
ACLS Annual Meeting featured panelists Carlos
J. Alonso, editor of PMLA; Cathy
N. Davidson, director of the Franklin Humanities Institute;
John
M. Unsworth, director of the Institute for Advanced Technology
in the Humanities; and Lynne
Withey, director of the University of California Press. Click
on a name to read the panelist's remarks.
2003 AAUP Presidential Address
Seetha Srinivasan, Director, University Press of Mississippi
A Review of
Scholarly Publishing: Books, Journals, Publishers, and Libraries
in the Twentieth-Century
Charles Ault
from Journal of Scholarly Publishing, April 2003
A Room with a View
Naomi B. Pascal
Western Presses, October 21, 2002
2002 AAUP Presidential Address
R. Peter Milroy, Director, University of British Columbia Press
Scholarly Books, The Coin of
the Realm of Knowledge
Peter Givler
from The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 12, 1999
Copyright
Visit the AAUP Copyright Resources Page
Copyright and the Costs of Scholarly Publishing
On average, university presses recover 87% of the cost of publishing scholarly books from sales. An important component of this revenue comes from payments received for permission to reproduce works in, for example, anthologies, paperback editions, coursepacks, electronic reserves, and document delivery services.
Federal copyright law is the legal foundation on which this method of cost recovery rests. Copyright protects the right of authors to be recognized for their work and be appropriately compensated for it, and by limiting distribution to authorized rights holders it provides the basis for market-based recovery of publishing costs.
Respect for copyright is essential to making this system work. Copyright infringement violates authors’ rights and, like any other form of theft, increases the burden on those who abide by the law. It puts pressure on prices, reduces publishing capacity, increases deficits, and shrinks resources needed for change, experimentation, and growth.
AAUP calls on all members of the university community—students, faculty, and administrators—to respect the obligation of university presses to strike a balance between the need for access to the information they publish, and the twin imperatives of protecting the legal rights of their authors and recovering publishing costs.
Copyright: It's for the Public Good
Peter Givler
from The Chronicle Review, May 9, 2003
Google Library: Information and Materials
First Amendment, Free Expression, and Academic
Freedom
AAUP Endorses Freedom to Read Statement
Books
for Understanding Civil Liberties, including First Amendment protections
Call
to Amend Section 215 of the Patriot Act
The book world is greatly concerned about the erosion of the freedom
to read, learn, and think without government surveillance. AAUP
and a number of scholarly presses have joined with other publishers,
associations, booksellers, librarians, and concerned citizens to
fight the erosion of this essential liberty.
To sign a petition in support of this effort, go to the Reader Privacy
site:
OFAC Regulations on Editing Authors in Embargoed Nations,
see below
International
Education Advisory Board, Letter of March 2004
AAUP is a signatory to a letter drafted by the National Coalition
Against Censorship and the American Association of University Professors
condemning the proposal before Congress to create a politically-appointed
advisory board to oversee federally-funded university area-studies
program.
Harmful
to Minors
The University of Minnesota Press, a member of AAUP since 1937,
came under fire in 2002 for publishing a controversial book by Judith
Levine. AAUP has issued a statement of support for the Press's right
to publish this work .
Preserving
Access to Presidential Records
AAUP joined an amicus brief filed in late February 2002 in
support of a legal challenge to the Bush Administration's attempt
to limit the access to presidential guaranteed by Congress in the
1978 Presidential Records Act.
Suit Against OFAC Regulations
Documents, Press
Materials, Articles, and Updates on the Case
More
Information on the Regulations for AAUP Members
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ID and password
Open Access
Visit AAUP's Open Access News & Resources web page for the latest AAUP news and activities in the open access debate.
The Open Access Bibliography
This resource lists more than 1,300 selected English-language books, conference papers (including some digital video presentations), debates, editorials, e-prints, journal and magazine articles, news articles, technical reports, and other printed and electronic sources that useful to understanding the open access movement. Where possible, links are provided to sources that are freely available on the Internet.
http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/oab.pdf
Oxford Open Access Workshop
In June 2006 Oxford Journals reported on the results of its open access experiments. Conference proceedings are available online:
http://www.oxfordjournals.org/news/oa_workshop.html
National Institutes of Health Open Access Proposal
*Proposed Open Access Policy for NIH-funded Research
*STM Publishing: Do We Need Government Intervention? (PPT)
Peter Banks, Publisher, American Diabetes Association
Presentation at STM Annual Conference, October 5, 2004
*Publishing Groups, Scientific Societies Concerned about NIH Proposal
Request GAO Study of Proposal's Assumptions and Consequences
*Public Comment Period Ends November 16
Register concerns and comments here
*More information for AAUP Members
Requires member login ID and password
Washington DC Principles for Free Access to Science
A group of not-for-profit medical/scientific societies and publishers who advocate a "middle-ground" in working towards free access and greater dissemination of scientific research.
The DC Principles group has also responded to the NIH proposal.
Scientific Publications: Free for All?
UK House of Commons Science and Technology Report
Responses to this report, November 8, 2004
Proposed legislation supports an untested publishing model
Michael J. Held
from The
Journal of Cell Biology, July 3, 2003
A response to the Sabo Bill, which proposed to deny copyright to federally-funded scientific research. Read the text of the Sabo Bill.
ISBN-13
By January 1, 2007, publishers are expected to have made the transition to the ISBN-13 standard. Currently, many publishers are printing new books with both ISBN-10 and ISBN-13 numbers on the copyright page. A wealth of information on this transition is available through the Book Industry Study Group Web site.
http://www.bisg.org/pi/index.html
The ISBN Readiness Directory
BISG has set up an online directory to track where individual publishers, retailers, and POS vendors are in their transitions to the ISBN-13 standard. Register your press's information and research partners' readiness here:
http://www.bisg.org/isbn-13/survey/isbn_directory.html
Another informative web page is available through the ISBN agency:
http://www.isbn.org/standards/home/isbn/transition.asp
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