Reading list on Scholarly Communication

Executive summary

These are very short overviews. If you read nothing else, read these.

The evolution of electronic scholarly communication: Short paper by Andrew Odlyzko outlining some trends.
Pricing Electronic Journals: Short article by Hal Varian.

Scholarly Journals Distributed by the World Wide Web: From University of Houston. Browse through a few hundred examples.
Journal of Electronic Publishing: Many good articles, mostly about electronic journals.
D-lib Magazine: Articles about digital libraries.
InfoEcon: Electronic Publishing: Lots of links to other resources.
Scholarly Communication and Technology: Conference sponsored by the Mellon Foundation; many interesting papers.
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: By Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Comprehensive bibliography.
Andrew Odlyzko's papers: Provocative papers on electronic publishing, libraries, etc.

Designing Electronic Journals: Very useful review of what we know about journal use and costs. Well worth reading.
Pricing Electronic Journals: Short article by Hal Varian.
PEAK Project: Marketing experiment involving per-item pricing of electronic journals.

UC Berkeley Digital Library: Describes mostly completed research from DL 1.
Links to other DL sites: UCSB, Stanford, etc. pages about DL 1.
Berkeley Proposal for Digital Library 2: Proposal for further research, in conjunction with UCSB, Stanford, UCDL. [PDF format]

The evolution of electronic scholarly communication: Short paper by Andrew Odlyzko outlining some trends.
Competition and cooperation: Libraries and publishers in the transition to electronic scholarly journals: Interesting paper by Andrew Odlyzko on the relationship between publishers and libraries in the transition to electronic journals.
Future of Electronic Journals: Some speculation about the evolution of electronic journals, mostly in the last part of the paper.
The Open Journals Project: A project to link distributed journals. For summary, see Linking Electronic Journals.

SPARC: Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resource Collection, organized by Association of Research Libraries.
Information about Physics Preprint archive: Background information.
Information about JSTOR: Journal Storage Archive Project.
California Digital Library: Our very own DL.