Managing the Collections

Faculty Resolutions on Scholarly Communication

UC Berkeley

Draft senate resolution: components on copyright, advancement, incentives, library support. Hoped to be endorsed in time to provide context to a large (300 faculty invitees) meeting in March.

UC Irvine

Senate resolution, endorsed Summer '04: 3 pages; focus on copyright; offers "guidelines" for action.

Stanford

Senate resolution, endorsed February '04: Calls for support of libraries in negotiations and for faculty "not to contribute articles or editorial or review efforts to publishers and journals that engage in exploitive or exorbitant pricing, and instead look to other and more reasonably-priced vehicles for disseminating their research results."

CIC (Big Ten)

Report of the October ’04 Summit on Scholarly Communication (Adobe PDF document): Access to Journal Literature: 11 pages; calls for an open-access repository to disseminate CIC scholarship, an educational campaign, and support of the NIH open access proposal.

Indiana

Faculty "Resolution on Journals, Databases, and Threats to Scholarly Publishing" March '04: focuses on faculty support for library disruption of the marketplace, including a call for faculty "to separate themselves from publishers with a narrow focus on profits at the expense of open scholarly publication."

Connecticut

"Faculty Resolution on The Crisis in Scholarly Communication" February '04: calls on faculty to "become familiar" with economics, to reduce affiliations with journals/publishers whose practices are inconsistent with the health of scholarly communication, and to support new models.

Various

A number of resolutions around the country in support of their libraries resistance to escalating journal prices. Several focus on Elsevier.

University of California Office of the President
Office of Scholarly Communication
February 16, 2005