Scholarly Communication and Scholarly Publishing Issues Web Site Launched
by Grace Baysinger
High journal prices, consolidation within the publishing industry, the devaluation of the dollar, and the digitization and resale of older content continue to stretch and stress the Stanford Libraries' collection budgets. Access and preservation of digital content are other areas that include opportunities and challenges as libraries at Stanford work to build and maintain collections for long-term access for students, faculty, and staff.
Scholarly communication and scholarly publishing issues affect all of us. A web page has been created to help you learn more about these issues, what is happening on campus, what Stanford authors should consider before signing away copyright ownership, and what is happening elsewhere. The "Scholarly Communication and Scholarly Publishing Issues" web page is at:
http://library.stanford.edu/scholarly_com/
This site includes links to a wide variety of information, including a profile of journals and journal packages that cost $1,000 or more dollars a year in the Stanford University Libraries. We invite you to become familiar with the content on this site and to help develop strategies for dealing with them.
