At this time, developers of research information systems are experimenting with new tools for research outputs usage that can expand the open access to research. These tools allow researchers to record research as annotations, nanopublications or other micro research outputs and link them by scientific relationships. If these micro outputs and relationships are shared by their creators publical...

his sentence, which we used for effect in numerous conference presentations and eventually fully articulated in a 2004 paper [1], is still by and large true. Although scholarly publishers have adopted new technologies that have made access to scholarly materials significantly easier (such as the Web and PDF documents), these changes have not realized the full potential of the new digital and ne...

Introduction We are currently witnessing a change in scholarly communication. Next to the paper, complementary materials, such as research data, source code, and images are regarded as important outcomes that should be shared and built upon (Kraker et al., 2011). In this new ecosystem, many archives have been established that cater to the needs of a digital and open science. With the increasing...

Following an overview of the historical context of copyright legislation, this paper discusses copyright within the scholarly communication process and the role of libraries in providing access to copyright materials in the digital age. The argument is made that the balance of “rights” and “exceptions” that has been maintained for 300 years needs to be reconsidered for scholarly communications,...

[email protected] 1 École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information (EBSI), Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC (Canada) 2 School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (USA) 3 Observatoire des Sciences et des Technologies (OST), Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche sur la Science et la Technologie (CIRST), Université du Québec à Montréal, M...

This paper describes three important pillars of publishing programs emerging at university libraries: providing a robust publishing platform, engaging the academic community in discussions about scholarly communication, and building a suite of production level services. The experiences of the Public Knowledge Project, the Simon Fraser University Library, and the University of Toronto Library’s ...