Link below to websites, blog postings, articles, and calls to action, all of which relate to journal affordability, pricing, and access.
-M. Bernard
iPubSci: An Alternative to Unaffordable Science Journals link
ACTION: Public Access to Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Publications
Resulting From Federally Funded Research. Responses due 1/12/12 link
SPARC®, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition link
Suber: Leader of a Leaderless Revolution (Interview by Richard Poynder, Information Today, July-August, 2011) link
Collection of Peter Suber's Writings on Open Access link
Create Change - Focus on how academic research is shared, and how that process is changing link
The Right to Research Coalition link
Librarians in London lead revolt against scholarly journals link
U. of California Tries Just Saying No to Rising Journal Costs link
Boycott of Nature journals by U. of California avoided link
Library budgets pressured by rising journal prices link
The Impending Death of Scientific Journals link
What’s wrong with scholarly publishing today? slideshow link
Journal pricing analysis 2011: Costs are going up link
Open access is not the magic cure for scholarly publishing costs link
Beall’s list of predatory, open access publishers 2012 link
The costs and benefits of library site licenses to academic journals link
Will open access compete away monopoly profits in journal publishing? link
Free Labor for Costly Journals? link
Profile of Ted and Carl Bergstrom, a father-son team with a history of activism in scholarly communication link
Economics of bundled site licenses (from Ted Bergstrom’s group) link
Journal cost effectiveness (2010) link
Researchers should charge publishers for reviewing journals link
Download a Powerpoint presentation prepared for U. California faculty members describing changes in forms of scholarly communication link
