New Report > _Moving towards an open access future: the role of academic libraries_

Tue Sep 4 13:46:07 EDT 2012

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Colleagues/

IMHO Most Excellent !

/Gerry

In April, leading independent academic and professional publisher SAGE convened a roundtable in association with the British Library into the role of the academic library in an open access (OA) future. Chaired by publishing consultant Simon Inger and attended by an international panel of 14 senior librarians and other industry experts, the conclusions of this discussion have today been published in a report, “Moving towards an open access future: the role of academic libraries”.

The report is a summary of the discussion around what support and skills librarians will require in an OA future, and how institutions, publishers, funders and other parties should be supporting their library partners, including variation by discipline and geographic region. Representing librarians from the UK, Europe, USA and the Middle East, attendees indicated that the concept of the individual library is changing. Panellists highlighted an important shift, recognizing that attention will shift from the library to the librarian: the information professional will be the library of the future. Academic libraries and research communication will have to evolve as open access grows in importance, but while traditional roles may change, librarians will still play an important role in managing and advising on information and information-related budgets.

Key discussions include:

  *   Addressing the culture of mistrust and misunderstanding regarding OA amongst researchers
  *   The varying uptake of OA and the subsequent impacts

The key roles that librarians will play in:

  *   Sharing discovery and support services amongst libraries and institutions
  *   Managing services such as institutional repositories
  *   Providing licensing and related advice to researchers
  *   Supporting preservation and managing metadata and recognising the importance of recommender services
  *   Explaining open access to researchers.

[more]

Source and Link to Report Available Via

[ http://ref-notes.blogspot.com/2012/09/report-moving-towards-open-access.html ]

BTW: Some may know that I have a long interest in Open Access > E.G.

McKiernan, Gerry. “Open Access and Retrieval: Liberating the Scholarly Literature.” In E-Serials Collection Management: Transitions, Trends, and Technicalities, ed. David C. Fowler, 197-220. New York: Haworth Information Press, 2004.  Self-archived at http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/Open.pdf  (4 September 2012).

McKiernan, Gerry. “Open Content and Access for Digital Scholarship.” Presentation delivered at WiLSWorld 2004: The Virtual Chase: In Hot Pursuit of Electronic Solutions, Madison, WI, July 27, 2004. Self-archived at:  http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/OpenContent.ppt   (4 September 2012). Invited.

McKiernan, Gerry. “Open Access: An Idea Whose Time Has Come.” Presentation given at The Role of Open Access Publishing in Science, a preconference held prior to Globalization of Information: Agriculture at the Crossroads, the XIth IAALD World Congress/USAIN Biennial Conference 2005, Lexington, KY, May 15, 2005. Self-archived at http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/IAALD.ppt     (4 September 2012). Invited.

Regards,

Gerry McKiernan

Associate Professor

and

Science and Technology Librarian

Iowa State University

152 Parks Library

Ames IA 50011

http://ref-notes.blogspot.com/

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