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

• 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