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Largest university in Scandinavia founded 1666

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.

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Largest university in Scandinavia founded 1666

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  1. Open Access & Open Source: opportunities for new business relationships with academic librariesASA Conference 2009London February 16-17, 2009Lars BjörnshaugeDirector of LibrariesLund University

  2. Agenda:IntroductionChanges in the academiclibrary environmentChallenges in contemporary academic library managementWhat we have got & what we need!Open Access & Open SourceSoftwareNew business opportunities Largest university in Scandinavia founded 1666

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

  4. Changes in the academiclibrary 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

  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?

  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

  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!

  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?

  9. Open SourceSoftware (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

  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!

  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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