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Open access:

Open access, the academic library and collection management : new problems, new responsibilities, new challenges Dorette Snyman Unisa Library snymad@unisa.ac.za. Open access:. Three scenarios: Scenario 1: “We resign and create an open access journal in competition”. Scenario 2:.

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  1. Open access, the academic library and collection management : new problems, new responsibilities, new challenges Dorette Snyman Unisa Library snymad@unisa.ac.za

  2. Open access: • Three scenarios: • Scenario 1: • “We resign and create an open access journal in competition”

  3. Scenario 2: • “Let’s put everything we’ve written in our institutional repository”

  4. Scenario 3: • “I want to publish my own journal and I see open access as the answer” • “I believe in the principles of open access and contribute to an open access journal”

  5. If open access is the answer? • If the academic library’s core purpose is to organize, preserve and make knowledge accessible • And to make information accessible, findable, and searchable for students and researchers • Future of the academic library is tied to the health of the scholarly communication environment • What are the problems & challenges?

  6. New challenges: Finding & searching • Finding: • Listing OA journals in Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), J-Gate, PubMedCentral, Google Directory, Directory of Open Access Repositories (openDOAR) • South African journals & IR’s? • Do you list these indexes on your library’s web site? • Searching: • Indexed & searchable in bibliographic & other databases • Do your information librarians use OA directories for searching? • How about volunteering to index our OA journals?

  7. How findable is this article?

  8. Problem 2: Searchability of SA OA journals

  9. Seachability in A&I databases Open access journals

  10. Listing is free

  11. Linking & citing information

  12. More new challenges: IR’s • Commercial publishers: • OA & self-archiving policies of publishers • Negotiating licence agreements to include IR’s • Inform researchers of policies eg. Sherpa • What about publishers that refuse to change? • What about SA publishers? • New pricing models for “author payment” model • Institutional Repositories on campus: • Be involved and drive the debate • Participate in establishing technical infrastructure & metadata • Researchers form discourse communities, libraries can easily be excluded if they do continually proof their value

  13. Even more challenges: Advocacy • Support OA initiatives • DOAJ, SPARC membership • Add your voice to put pressure on commercial publishers • Information Access Alliance • Drive the debate in your environment • Provide resources • ALA Scholarly Communication Toolkit • Support and actively participate on OA in South Africa • Offer your expertise – indexing, metadata, examples of other successful initiatives

  14. How many libraries are contributing?

  15. Conclusion • Open access is not only about free • If the information (or article) is not findable, searchable, retrievable & preserved • Your work is not “open”, • It is not be part of the scholarly discourse • It will not be used to build new knowledge • Is it then worth the effort?

  16. URL’s • Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/ • J-Gate http://www.j-gate.informindia.co.in/ • Directory of Open Access Repositories http://www.opendoar.org/ • SPARC http://www.ala.org/sparc/ • SHERPA http://www.sherpa.co.uk/romeo.php • Information Access Alliance http://www.informationaccess.org/ • ALA Scholarly Communication Toolkit http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/scholarlycomm/scholarlycommunicationtoolkit/toolkit.htm • Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/ • International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication ICAAP http://www.icaap.org/

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