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<h2>Scholarly Publishing Issues</h2> <a name="1"></a> <h3>MLA Scholarly Publishing Resources<br> Position statements, FAQs, and other resources</h3> <blockquote> <table class="pagenavtable"> <tr> <td> <ul> <li><a href="#2">Information Access</a></li> <li><a href="#3">Copyright</a></li> <li><a href="#4">Electronic Licensing</a></li> <li><a href="#5">MLA '03 Continuing Education Courses</a></li> <li><a href="#5">Additional MLA-approved CE Courses</a></li> <li><a href="#8">MLA Articles and Publications</a></li> <li><a href="#9">Links to Scholarly Publishing Initiatives</a></li> <li><a href="#10">MLA Scholarly Publishing Task Force</a></li> </ul> </td> </tr> </table> </blockquote> <a name="2"></a> <h4> <a href="#top"><img src="/web/20080421193233im_/http://www.mlanet.org/pix/2000/2000bttn_toppg.gif" width="22" height="16" border="0" alt="To top of page"></a>  Information Access</h4> <ul> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080421193233/http://www.rin.ac.uk/data-scholarly-journals">Final Report, UK scholarly journals: 2006 baseline report: An evidence-based analysis of data concerning scholarly journal publishing</a> (October 2006) </li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080421193233/http://www.informationaccess.org/antitrust.pdf">Joint Library Association Comments to European Commission</a> <img src="/web/20080421193233im_/http://www.mlanet.org/common/img/software/adobe-pdf.gif" alt="[PDF]"/> on report, <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080421193233/http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/pdf/scientific-publication-study_en.pdf#search=%22Study%20on%20the%20economic%20and%20technological%20evolution%20of%20the%20scientific%20publication%20markets%20in%20europe%22">"Study on the Economic and Technological Evolution of the Scientific Publication Markets in Europe"</a> (May 2006) <img 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The site also includes example position descriptions with scholarly communication outreach responsibilities, and institutional repository and authors' rights resources.</div> </li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080421193233/http://www.biomedcentral.com/">BioMed Central<br> </a>Independent publishing house that provides immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research.</li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080421193233/http://libnet.ac.il/%7Elibnet/bioone.htm">BioOne</a><br> Non-profit corporation that focuses on biological, ecological and environmental sciences, and helps societies convert existing print journals to electronic format.</li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080421193233/http://www.soros.org/openaccess/">Budapest Open Access Initiative</a> (BOAI)<br> The BOAI aims to accelerate progress in the international effort to make research article in all academic fields freely available on the Internet.</li> <li> <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080421193233/http://www.katina.info/conference/index.html">The Charleston Conference</a> <br> "An annual gathering of librarians, publishers, and vendors of library materials in Charleston, SC, to discuss issues of importance to all."</li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080421193233/http://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons</a><br> Website dedicated to making scholarly material, music, literature, film, and science widely available to the public. Site offers <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080421193233/http://creativecommons.org/license/">model licenses</a> for free sharing of scholarly material.</li> <li> <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080421193233/http://www.informationaccess.org/">Information Access Alliance</a> (IAA)<br> MLA has joined with the American Association of Law LIbraries, American Library Association, Association of College and Research Libraries, Association of Research Libraries, and Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition to form the IAA to address the impact of publishing mergers on access to research information. The IAA website provides information such as a white paper analyzing antitrust issues and the impact of publishing mergers on libraries, fact sheets and background information for librarians to use in addressing this issue, and press releases and statements issues by the IAA.</li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080421193233/http://www.nationalacademies.org/">National Academy of Sciences (NAS)<br> </a> <ul> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080421193233/http://www4.nationalacademies.org/webcr.nsf/5c50571a75df494485256a95007a091e/8f96bda20f9c095f85256ccb00649a7c?OpenDocument">Project on Electronic Scientific, Technical and Medical Journal Publishing and its Implications </a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080421193233/http://www4.nationalacademies.org/webcr.nsf/5c50571a75df494485256a95007a091e/8f96bda20f9c095f85256ccb00649a7c?OpenDocument">Symposium</a> to provide a better understanding of the implications of electronic publishing of STM journals on the health of scientific, engineering, and medical research.<br> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20080421193233/http://www.mlanet.org/pdf/resources/nas_report.pdf">Report</a> by MLA President Patricia L. 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