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Offer ideas for future business and business relations with academic libraries ... Good news or bad news for the industry and the intermediaries? ...

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    Slide 1:Open Access & Open Source: opportunities for new business relationships with academic libraries ASA Conference 2009 London February 16-17, 2009 Lars Björnshauge Director of Libraries Lund University

    Slide 2:Agenda: Introduction Changes in the academic library environment Challenges in contemporary academic library management What we have got & what we need! Open Access & Open Source Software New business opportunities

    Largest university in Scandinavia founded 1666

    Slide 3:Introduction

    Disclaimer Not in the mainstream Experiences, observations & thoughts Offer ideas for future business and business relations with academic libraries

    Slide 4:Changes in the academic library environment

    ”the good old days”: Libraries a must have Technology – new ways of doing the same things – handling print Today: Handle print & digital information New concepts, products and services More than a library Supporting teaching & education, disseminating research output, supporting university knowledge management Information literacy, multifunctional learning environments, LMS, institutional repositories, bibliometrics, data curation

    Slide 5:Challenges in contemporary academic library management

    Lack of competence, insight & overview Cataloguing rules, classification systems & some management skills – no longer enough! E-licensing, metasearch, open URL, federated search, linked data, ontologies, semantic web, digitization, IPR Unicode, XML, CSS, SQL, OAI-PMH and OAI-ORE, operating system skills, basic knowledge of networking, knowledge of a scripting language such as Perl or PHP 2.0? Good news or bad news for the industry and the intermediaries?

    Slide 6:What we have got

    Core products: ILS – originates from the print handling, developed into monsters! A variety of services solving parts of one problem – creating other problems Proprietary difficult to adapt to the context and to integrate underperforming or overkilling

    Slide 7:What we need!

    We want to be able to integrate our services We need products & Services that are Modular Open Easy to control, manipulate & integrate We need independent advice!

    Slide 8:Open Access (OA)

    Open Access Gold Green and more OA services: DOAJ & OpenDOAR OA - Business opportunities? Lots of OA journals need to be taken care of! Developing business models for OA-journals Publication charges Overlay services based on institutional repository content?

    Slide 9:Open Source Software (OSS)

    Open Source Software Open & integrated libraries need open products and services Business opportunities: Organize publishing & library related OSS communities Establish new publishing & library related OSS communities Enter partnerships with academic libraries who are developing new services

    Slide 10:Conclusions

    Academic library managers need independent advice! Academic libraries need products and services that are Smart, modular, open & easy to integrate in the rapidly changing environment No contradiction between OA/OSS and for-profit business Use your entrepreneural energy even in the OA-environment! Explore opportunities in partnerships between academic library front runners & the intermediaries Go for it!

    Slide 11:Thank you for your attention

    Lars.Bjornshauge@lub.lu.se www.lub.lu.se www.doaj.org elin.lub.lu.se/elininfo

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