Activities Related to Intellectual Property and Scholarly Communication

• Scholarly communication

Provost Emeritus Phelps has had a long-standing interest in issues of scholarly communication, beginning first at a conference held at Caltech in 1997, which led to a discussion of alternative ways to organize scholarly communication in a digital age. A subsequent discussion of these issues at a conference of the Association of Research Libraries (the ARL) expanded on these ideas. Phelps also participated in a conference sponsored by the Association of American Universities and the ARL known generally as the Tempe Accord.

• Intellectual property issues

Provost Emeritus Phelps has been active in issues relating in various ways to intellectual property, including the following:

• Copyright Issues in Digital Media

• Database Legislation

• Patent Reform Legislation

• Peer to Peer File Sharing

Provost Emeritus Phelps has been active nationally in issues of Peer to Peer (P2P) file sharing on collegiate campuses. For more information on this work, click here.

• Related organizations

Provost Emeritus Phelps serves on the Boards of Directors of two not-for-profit organizations that serve the library community. More information about these organizations appears by following the links to their web sites.

• Council for Library and Information Resources

• Center for Research Libraries