MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN THE EVOLVING ELECTRONIC SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING ECONOMY

This is a pre-print of an article that was published in the SLA/RGC Bulletin. NOTE: This article is organized to give an overview in print for the Bulletin, as well as an electronic version which include hot links to examples of the actual documents and e-mail messages used to educate and involve researchers and decision makers.No library or information service can stand aloof from the current developments (legal, technological, and organizational) in scholarly publishing. I will be describing my personal actions to influence beneficial change, as well as those of the various groups I am involved with. This may be useful to chapter members and, I hope, stimulate more ideas for effecting changes in the electronic publishing environment before it, too, is usurped by for-profit publishers