Fwd: Scholarly Communication website

[Janet Fischer]

Greetings Postdocs,

The MIT Libraries have created a new web site on scholarly 
communications issues:

Scholarly Communication in Crisis: Why You Should Care
http://libraries.mit.edu/about/scholarly/

This site brings together key web documents related to publishing, 
pricing, and copyright issues, in addition to MIT faculty quotes on 
the issues, and real tools and information you can use.  Sections of 
the site include:

What's happening at MIT?
Faculty perspectives and impacts on the MIT community.

What's happening nationally and beyond?
Open Access movement, the NIH public access proposal, the Public 
Library of Science, etc.

What can faculty do?
Tools and suggestions to help you exert your influence through 
publishing decisions and managing your copyright.

What can students do?
How the next generation of scholars can make an impact as both 
information users and as authors.

We expect to continue to develop the site over time, so if you have 
comments or suggestions, or if there are other features you would 
like us to incorporate, please let me know.

Howard Silver
MIT Libraries Researchers User Group, <mailto:rug-lib at mit.edu>rug-lib at mit.edu
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Howard Silver
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology        fax:   617 253-6365
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<mailto:hsilver at mit.edu>hsilver at mit.edu
Cambridge, MA  02139-4307             web: 
<http://libraries.mit.edu>http://libraries.mit.edu


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