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Text Box: Contact Us: Boston Library Consortium Sarah Hudson Administrative Assistant admin@blc.org 617.262.0380 Text Box: Resources for Authors and Advocates: INFORMATION Faculty Speak Out about Scholarly Communication Issues (Association of Research Libraries' Scholarly Communication website) http://www.arl.org/osc/faculty/index.html SPARC: Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition http://www.arl.org/sparc/about/index.html Transforming Scholarly Communication and Libraries (Cornell University Library) http://www.library.cornell.edu/scholarlycomm/ ***** MATERIALS TO HELP YOU SPREAD THE WORD BioMed Central: Advocacy http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/about/ advocacy Create Change http://www.createchange.org/home.html AAUP-ARL Statement on Scholarly Communication (PDF) http://www.arl.org/scomm/aauparlstatement.pdf University of Kentucky: Changing Scholarly Publishing (PDF) http://www.lib.utk.edu/colldev/ChangeScholarPub.pdf University of California, Berkeley: Scholarly Publishing: Statement of Principles (PDF) http://academic-senate.berkeley.edu/ news/statement_of_ prin_for_web.pdf See the Boston Library Consortium site for more... http://www.blc.org/authorsrights.html


 

Text Box: EXTEND YOUR RIGHTS: Use the Amendment to Publication agreement to extend your rights to ... USE, REPRODUCE, DISTRIBUTE, CREATE derivative works including update, perform, and display publicly, the Article in electronic, digital or print form in connection with the Author's teaching, conference presentations, lectures, other scholarly works, and for all of Author's academic and professional activities. BENEFITS: • Provides you the right to make reproductions of your work for teaching, research, and scholarship • Provides you the right to post your work to your web site or course management system Text Box: BECOME A CHAMPION: Become a champion for open access! BECOME A RADICAL, ADVOCATE for change in scholarly publishing, become an activist in the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) or like organizations. BENEFITS: • Promotes open access to scholarly literature • Creates fundamental changes in the system of scholarly publishing • Furthers the mission of your university and academe in general Text Box: EXERCISE YOUR RIGHTS: Once the article is published ... MAKE, OR AUTHORIZE OTHERS TO MAKE, the final published version of the Article available in digital form over the Internet, including but not limited to a website under the control of the Author or the Author's employer or through any digital repository (e.g. National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central database). BENEFITS: • Provides easier access to your work for other scholars • Boosts your research exposure • Preserves your digital resources