Scholarly Communication Toolkit - Promotion Of Open Access By Libraries

Developing an Outreach Program

• Know Your Copy Rights (ARL)
• Developing a Scholarly Communication Program in Your Library, ARL-ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication
• ARL - Planning Campus Outreach
• ARL Library Brown-Bag Lunch Series on Issues in Scholarly Communication - "These guides are tools designed for library leaders to use for organizing a summer-or semester-long discussion series. Each guide offers a brief scoping statement, a suggested reading or resource to review, and a set of discussion questions to launch an hour-long informal conversation among library staff." Revised May 2008

Library Implementation Models

• Arnold Library, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 
• Bernard Becker Medical Library, School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
• Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY
• Duke University Medical Center Library, Durham, NC
• Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City
• Health Sciences Library and Biocommunications Center, University of Tennessee-Memphis
• Health Sciences Library System, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
• Talbot Research Library, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA
• Lane Library, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
• Library, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
• Edward G. Miner Library, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
• University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Philadelphia
• University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Library

Sample Library Sites

• Duke University Medical Center Online NIH Public Access Policy
• Becker Medical Library, Washington University School of Medicine - Complying with NIH Public Access Policy
• University of Virginia
• University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Library System. HSL Guide to the NIH Public Access Policy
• University of Rochester Medical Center - Edward G. Miner Library
• Campus & Regional Initiatives for Author Rights (SPARC)
• Virginia Commonwealth University