2018
Samvera Community Annual Report 2017
The African Open Science Platform: The Future of Science and Science for the Future, African Academy of Sciences, Academy of Science of South Africa, Committee on Data for Science and Technology, International Council for Science, National Research and Education Networks, Research Data Alliance, South African Department of Science & Technology, National Research Foundation, Square Kilometre Array, and UNESCO
University of Nebraska-Lincoln DigitalCommons: Statistical Report, August 2018, DeeAnn Allison, Paul Royster, Sue A. Gardner, Margaret Mering, and Linnea Fredrickson
The Public Knowledge Project: Reflections and Directions After Two Decades, Juan Pablo Alperin, John Willinsky, Brian Owen, James MacGregor, Alec Smecher, and Kevin Stranack
Opening academic publishing - Development and application of systematic evaluation criteria, Anna Björk, Juho-Matti Paavola, Teemu Ropponen, Mikael Laakso, and Leo Lahti
An Ethical Framework for Library Publishing: Version 0.5 (Draft for Comment), Jason Boczar, Charlotte Roh, Melanie Schlosser, Nina Collins, Rebel Cummings-Sauls, Terri Fishel, Valerie Horton, Harrison Inefuku, Sarah Melton, Joshua Neds-Fox, Wendy C. Robertson, Jaclyn Sipovic, and Camille Thomas
Leveraging Elsevier’s Creative Commons License Requirement to Undermine Embargoes, Josh Bolick
JLSC Board Editorial 2018, Gail Clement, Nicky Agate, Sam Searle, Danny Kingsley, and Micah Vandegrift
Open Access at MIT and Beyond: A White Paper of the MIT Ad Hoc Task Force on Open Access to MIT’s Research, Katharine Dunn, Hal Abelson, Chris Bourg, and Ellen Finnie
The Evolving Institutional Repository Landscape, Judy Luther
Unbundling Open Access dimensions: a conceptual discussion to reduce terminology inconsistencies, Alberto Martín-Martín, Rodrigo Costas, Thed N. van Leeuwen, and Emilio Delgado López-Cózar
MDPI Annual Report 2017, MDPI
Digital Infrastructures that Embody Library Principles: The IMLS National Digital Platform as a Framework for Digital Library Tools and Services, Trevor Owens, Ashley E. Sands, Emily Reynolds, James Neal, Stephen Mayeaux, and Maura Marx
DigitalCommons Users Discuss the bepress Acquisition, Paul Royster, Roger Weaver, Marilyn Billings, Phillip Fitzsimmons, and Terri Fishel
Big Deal: Should Universities Outsource More Core Research Infrastructure?, Roger C. Schonfeld
BOAI 15 Survey Report, Nick Shockey, Heather Joseph, and Melissa Hagemann
OPERAS White Paper: Open Access Business Models, Lara Speicher, Margo Bargheer, Maciej Maryl, Sven Fund, Max Mosterd, Frances Pinter, Lorenzo Armando, Irakleitos Souyioultzoglou, Martin Paul Eve, and Delfim Leão
OSI2018 SUMMARY REPORT on the 1st Summit Meeting of the Global Open Scholarship Initiative, March 12-14, 2018, The Open Scholarship Initiative and Glenn Hampson
The Rent’s too High: Self-Archive for Fair Online Publication Costs, Robert Thibault, Amanda MacPherson, Stevan Harnad, and Amir Raz
PATHWAYS TO OPEN ACCESS, University of California Libraries
2017
Changing Publishing Ecologies: A Landscape Study of New University Presses and Academic-Led Publishing: A Report to JISC, Janneke Adema, Graham Stone, and Chris Keene
Surveying the Scalability of Open Access Monograph Initiatives: Final Report, Christopher Barnes,; Rebecca Welzenbach; and Kathleen Folger
Next Generation Repositories: Behaviours and Technical Recommendations of the COAR Next Generation Repositories Working Group, Confederation of Open Access Repositories, Eloy Rodrigues, and Kathleen Shearer
Metadata and Copyright: Should Institutions License Their Data about Scholarship?, Krista L. Cox
Using Fair Use to Preserve and Share Disappearing Government Information, William Cross
Open Education (2017 Nebraska ACRL Scholarly Communication Roadshow, University of Nebraska-Lincoln), William M. Cross
Making & Sharing Scholarship: Copyright Issues in Scholarly Communication (2017 Nebraska ACRL Scholarly Communication Roadshow, University of Nebraska-Lincoln), William M. Cross and Elizabeth A. Brown
Reflection & Next Steps (2017 Nebraska ACRL Scholarly Communication Roadshow, University of Nebraska-Lincoln), William M. Cross, Jaron Porciello, and Elizabeth Brown
Scholarly Communication: From Understanding to Engagement (2017 Nebraska ACRL Scholarly Communication Roadshow, University of Nebraska-Lincoln), William M. Cross, Jaron Porciello, and Elizabeth A. Brown
A Splendid Torch: Learning and Teaching in Today’s Academic Libraries, Jodi Reeves Eyre, John C. Maclachlan, and Christa Williford
Publication Agreement Comparison Exercise, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, July 12, 2017 (2017 Nebraska ACRL Scholarly Communication Roadshow, University of Nebraska-Lincoln), Molly Keener and William Cross
Workshop Agenda, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, July 12, 2017 (2017 Nebraska ACRL Scholarly Communication Roadshow, University of Nebraska-Lincoln), Joy Kirchner and William Cross
The 2.5% commitment, David W. Lewis
Updating the Agenda for Academic Libraries and Scholarly Communications, Clifford Lynch
Measuring Impact (2017 Nebraska ACRL Scholarly Communication Roadshow, University of Nebraska-Lincoln), Jaron Porciello
Understanding Scholarly Communication: Framing the Issues (2017 Nebraska ACRL Scholarly Communication Roadshow, University of Nebraska-Lincoln), Jaron Porciello, William M. Cross, and Elizabeth A. Brown
Nebraska ACRL Scholarly Communication Roadshow Sharing Session, Catherine Fraser Riehle, Linnea Fredrickson, and Margaret Mering
12+ Years an IR Manager, Paul Royster
Office of Scholarly Communications, Annual Report Fiscal Year 2017 (July 1, 2016 – June 30, 2017), Paul Royster, Sue A. Gardner, Margaret Mering, and Linnea Fredrickson
Democratizing Academic Journals: Technology, Services, and Open Access, Scholastica, Danielle Padula, Björn Brembs, Stevan Harnad, Ulrich Herb, Roxanne Missingham, Dan Morgan, and John Ortbal
Can scientists and their institutions become their own open access publishers?, Karen Shashok
OER State Policy Playbook [DRAFT], SPARC
SPEC Kit 357 Libraries, Presses, and Publishing November 2017, Laurie N. Taylor, Brian W. Keith, Chelsea Dinsmore, and Meredith Morris-Babb
[University of Nebraska-Lincoln] Digital Commons Ranked among World's Best, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
HOW COULD AN OPEN ACCESS SCHOLARLY JOURNAL SYSTEM LOOK? A SCENARIO ANALYSIS, Maurits van der Graaf and Leo Waaijers
Scholarly Communication and the Dilemma of Collective Action: Why Academic Journals Cost Too Much, John Wenzler
NASIG Core Competencies for Scholarly Communication Librarians, Andrew Wesolek, Wm. Joseph Thomas, Angela Dresselhaus, Julie Fielding, Char Simser, Sarah Sutton, Jason Boczar, Rachel Miles, Stephanie Spratt, Wendy Robertson, and Betsy Appleton
Section 108 of Title 17: A Discussion Document of the Register of Copyrights, Chris Weston, Aurelia J. Schultz, Emily M. Lanza, Michelle Choe, and Karyn Temple Claggett
Connect OER Annual Report 2016-2017, Brady Yano
Connect OER Annual Report, 2016-2017, Brady Yano
2016
AAUP Handbook: Best Practices for Peer Review, 2015-16 AAUP Acquisitions Editorial Committee
FINDING THE PUBLIC DOMAIN: Copyright Review Management System Toolkit, Richard C. Adler, Justin Bonfiglio, Kristina Eden, Brian S. Hall, Melissa Levine, and University of Michigan Library Copyright Office
Research impact of paywalled versus open access papers, Éric Archambault, Grégoire Côté, Brooke Struck, and Matthieu Voorons
Strategic Thinking and Design Initiative: Extended and Updated Report, Association of Research Libraries
US Agencies – Public Access Plans Details, CHORUS
Institutional Strategies for Open Educational Resources (OERs): Report of a CNI Executive Roundtable Held April 3 & 4, 2016, Coalition for Networked Information
COMMITTEE ON INSTITUTIONAL COOPERATION 2014-2015 ANNUAL REPORT: The Power of the Collective, COMMITTEE ON INSTITUTIONAL COOPERATION
The eLife Sciences Annual Report 2015, eLife Sciences Publications Limited
Remanded Decision in Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, & SAGE Publications vs. Georgia State University et al., Orinda D. Evans
Collection Development Policy, Digital Commons Institutional Repository, University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries, Sue Ann Gardner, Paul Royster, Linnea Fredrickson, Kathleen A. Johnson, Leslie M. Delserone, and Erica DeFrain
How Readers Discover Content in Scholarly Publications, Tracy Gardner and Simon Inger
Research Software Sustainability: Report on a Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Simon Hettrick
Introductory Discussion, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, July 12, 2017 (2017 Nebraska ACRL Scholarly Communication Roadshow, University of Nebraska-Lincoln), Joy Kirchner and William Cross
Finding the Public Domain: The Copyright Review Management System, Melissa Levine
Monograph Costing Tool: A User’s Guide, Nancy Maron and Kim Schmelzinger
How open science helps researchers succeed, Erin McKiernan, Philip E. Bourne, C. Titus Brown, Stuart Buck, Amye Kenall, Jennifer Lin, Damon McDougall, Brian A. Nosek, Karthik Ram, Courtney K. Soderberg, Jeffrey R. Spies, Kaitlin Thaney, Andrew Updegrove, Kara H. Woo, and Tal Yarkoni
Across the Great Divide: Findings and Possibilities for Action from the 2016 Summit Meeting of Academic Libraries and University Presses with Administrative Relationships (P2L), Mary Rose Muccie, Joe Lucia, Elliott Shore, Clifford Lynch, and Peter Berkery
MDPI Annual Report 2015: Academic Open Access Publishing Since 1996, Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
Altmetrics Data Quality Code of Conduct, National Information Standards Organization
Altmetrics Definitions and Use Cases, National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
The Open Access Interviews: Sir Timothy Gowers, Mathematician, Richard Poynder and Timothy Gowers K.B.
FINAL REPORT: EUNIS – EUROCRIS JOINT SURVEY ON CRIS AND IR, Lígia Ribeiro, Pablo de Castro, and Michele Mennielli
Recommendations for Standardized International Rights Statements, Rightsstatements.org and International Rights Statements Working Group
A Brief History of Open Access, Paul Royster
The Grand Compromise of U.S. Public Access Programs: Going Green, Jeffrey Salmon
Converting Scholarly Journals to Open Access: A Review of Approaches and Experiences, David J. Solomon, Mikael Laakso, Bo-Christer Björk, and Peter Suber editor
The Federal Big Data Research and Development Strategic Plan, THE NETWORKING AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM and Big Data Senior Steering Group
Strengthening Research through Data Sharing, Elizabeth Warren
Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey 2015, Christine Wolff, Alisa B. Rod, and Roger C. Schonfeld
2015
RLI 285: Research Library Issues: A Report from ARL, CNI, and SPARC 2015 -- Special Issue on Copyright, Prudence Adler, Brandon Butler, Jonathan Band, and Krista Cox
Fair Use Fundamentals, Association of Research Libraries and YIPPA
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts, College Art Association, Patricia Aufderheide, and Peter Jaszi
10 Things You Should Know about...Scholarly Communication, Molly Keener, Joy Kirchner, Sarah Shreeves, and Lee Van Orsdel
H. R. 4241, To Establish the United States Copyright Office as an Independent Agency, and for Other Purposes [Discussion Draft], 114th Congress, 1st Session, Tom Marino, Judy Chu, and Barbara Comstock
The Once and Future Publishing Library, Ann Okerson and Alex Holzman
Mapping the Future of Scholarly Publishing, Open Science Initiative Working Group
A Library Publishing Manifesto, Paul Royster
The STM Report: An overview of scientific and scholarly journal publishing, Mark Ware and Michael Mabe
Open-Access Policies: Basics and Impact on Content Recruitment, Andrew Wesolek and Paul Royster
2014
Proportion of Open Access Papers Published in Peer-Reviewed Journals at the European and World Levels—1996–2013, Éric Archambault, Didier Amyot, Philippe Deschamps, Aurore Nicol, Françoise Provencher, Lise Rebout, and Guillaume Roberge
Goodbye to Berlin –Where is OA Heading?, Claudio Aspesi
Copyright, Fair Use, and Author Rights, Sue Ann Gardner
Brief of Digital Humanities And Law Scholars as Amici Curiae In Support Of Defendant-Appellees And Affirmance, (The Authors Guild, Inc., et al., v. Google, Inc., et al.), Matthew L. Jockers, Matthew Sag, and Jason Schultz
The Number of Scholarly Documents on the Public Web, Madian Khabsa and C. Lee Giles
The Open Access Interviews: Paul Royster, Coordinator of Scholarly Communications, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Richard Poynder and Paul Royster
Copyright, Fair Use, and Author Rights, Paul Royster
Ownership of Intellectual Property, Policy of the University of Nebraska Board of Regents, University of Nebraska Board of Regents
2012
Scholarly Publishing in the U.S., Then and Now: A Brief History and Implications for the Future, Sue Ann Gardner
Expanding Public Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research, Joan Giesecke