Publishing Alternatives and Archival Projects

	PubMed Central Life science full-text research articles
	Clinical Medicine Netprints  (BMJ Publishing Group) "a repository of non-peer reviewed original research"
	Highwire Press  offers over 137,000 backyear articles for free
	E-Biosci European equivalent of PubMed Central  [Science, Volume 287, Number 5453, Jan 28, 2000, pp.563-564]
	BioMed Central "a new commercial publishing house, part of the Current Science Group of companies"
	CrossRef  linked online full-text content of cited references of multiple publishers
	SPARC  creates 'partnerships' with publishers who are developing high quality, economical alternatives to existing high-priced publications. -  Electronic Genesis: E-Journals in the Sciences -  "Create Change" campaign
	Open Archives initiative  forum to discuss and solve matters of interoperability between author self-archiving solutions, as a way to promote their global acceptance.
	Stanford University LOCKSS Project  software will permit libraries to archive permanent copies of web-based publications
	For more samples see "Scholarly Communications: New Models for a New Millennium"

 Intellectual Property

 BMJ Copyright Agreement Changes

  Sample Author-Rights Retention License  Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers [pdf]

  Model "Authorization to Publish" Form North Carolina Triangle Research Libraries Network

  Freelance Writers Retain Copyright of Electronic Versions of Print Works

©  Copyright

  Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Summary U.S. Copyright Office [pdf]

 UW Copyright Website 

 PubMed Search on copyright and scholarly intellectual property issues