June 2007 Archives
From the Press Release dated June 5, 2007 .....
SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) has recognized Ted Bergstrom and Carl Bergstrom as the new SPARC Innovators. The father-son team advances the open sharing of scholarly information through original research and the creation of innovative tools that are used widely by the academic community to assess the value of research.
Ted and Carl are best known for their collaborations on Ted's journal pricing Web pages and, more recently, on the Eigenfactor.org Web site produced by Carl's research lab. Ted's journal pricing page, which offers data reporting price per article and price per citation for about 5,000 academic journals, has centralized pricing information so it can be explored and compared in ways that were previously impossible. The site has become a vital resource for researchers and librarians alike. Carl's Eigenfactor.org site offers a completely new and innovative approach to assessing the value of journals; it provides researchers, librarians and others a new mechanism to evaluate based on a diverse array of criteria.
The SPARC Innovator program recognizes advances in scholarly communication realized by an individual, institution, or group. For further information or a list of previous SPARC Innovators, please see the SPARC Web site at http://www.arl.org/sparc.
A selective guide to web resources on the topic of copyright appeared recently in College and Research Libraries News. According to the author, "the resources presented here offer librarians, educators, and other information professionals a wide range of information on copyright from the introductory, to the practical, to the philosophical."
The article is available from the journal's website.
From the Press Release dated May 17, 2007.......
Science Commons and the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) have announced the release of a new online tool to help authors exercise choice in retaining critical rights in their scholarly articles, including the rights to reuse their scholarly articles and to post them in online repositories.
The Scholar's Copyright Addendum Engine is an online tool created by Science Commons to simplify the process of choosing and implementing an addendum to retain scholarly rights. By selecting from among four addenda offered, any author can fill in a form to generate and print a completed amendment that can be attached to a publisher's copyright assignment agreement to retain critical rights to reuse and offer their works online.
