This book is aimed at the practicing academic librarian, especially those working on the 'front lines' of reference, instruction, collection development, and other capacities that involve dealing directly with library patrons in a time of changing scholarly communication paradigms. The book looks at open access from the perspective of a practicing academic librarian and challenges fellow librarians to continue the dialogue about how the movement might be affecting day-to-day library work and the future of academic libraries.

Written by a practicing academic librarian with many years experience in reference, as well as in collection development and faculty liaison roles
Written with the "front-line academic librarian in mind from a practical point of view
Contains numerous references to refer the reader to many open access resources; includes extensive footnotes for further reading

Auteur

Laura Bowering Mullen is the Behavioural Sciences Librarian at the Library of Science and Medicine of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in Piscataway, New Jersey, USA. Mullen has had many years of experience as an academic science reference librarian, and is involved in collection development, faculty liaison, and public services capacities. Mullen has co-authored recent articles on relevant topics such as Google Scholar and librarians' roles in assisting faculty with increasing research impact.

Contenu

About the author Preface 1: Introduction

Open access in the library: implications for academic librarians
Keeping up with legislation mandating open access
Assisting researchers with new open access concerns
Copyright and licensing issues
Recent policy changes noted in the LIS literature
Open access, increasing research impact, and libraries integrating free search engines
Open access and implications for peer review
What do researchers want from their libraries? 2: Librarians and their own open access publishing
Self-archiving by librarians
Authors in LIS and permissions to self-archive
Institutional repositories and subject archiving for LIS authors
Integrating LIS and other disciplines' repositories into the library
Librarians as authors in the journal literature
Librarians in their roles as journal editors
Hierarchy and prestige of LIS journals
LIS abstracting and indexing services
LIS weblogs covering open access topics
Open access journals for librarians
Librarians as publishers of open access journals
A new role for the subject specialist in open access journal publishing
Open access journals published by the Rutgers University Libraries 3: Collection development and open access
Librarians' relationships with traditional publishers
Threats that open access may pose to libraries
Inertia for the LIS journal literature
Librarians engaging in business with traditional publishers
Commercial versus society publishers: different relationships with librarians
Roles of librarians in discussions of university press partnerships
Dissertations as important unique open access materials
Overall growth of electronic publishing
Open access and the LIS book literature
Implications for libraries of large open access book digitisation initiatives 4: Librarians and their roles in the academy
Promotion and tenure issues for librarians and teaching faculty
Open access and research impact
Faculty status for librarians
Do librarians really want to see changes in the current model?
Implications of the aging of the current pool of academic librarians
The individual library's identity
Librarian behaviour echoing that of their 'other' subject specialties
Promoting the institutional repository as the means to open access
Priorities for funding and staffing the 'new' academic library 5: Collection development librarians and open access
The future of collections in an open access world
Ownership versus access: implications for librarians
Usage statistics and other assessment tools for open access resources
Serials retention and preservation issues
Librarians' views on self-archiving and its effects on the traditional literature
Scholarly communication changes affecting interlibrary loan
Author-pays open access and implications for the library
Collection development, bibliographer and liaison librarian roles
New roles for librarians interested in open access
Academic library scholarly communications committees 6: Public services work and open access
Open access and the academic librarian: its relevance for everyday
Library users and their knowledge of open access alternatives
Asking users to change behaviour
Using DOAJ as a source of open access materials
Open access materials available for discovery
Role of the reference librarian and the library website in promoting open access
Using Google Scholar in reference work to discover open access materials
Open access and other indexes and databases
Disciplinary differences in open access material presented to patrons
Inclusion of open access materials in traditional and emerging indexes
Searching the scholarly literature: best practices
Federated search and open source solutions
Various article versions causing confusion in public services
Citation managers incorporating open access materials
Information literacy with open access
Open educational resources
Open access programmes planned for students
LIS education and open access 7: Open access and technical services
Effects of open access on the work of technical services librarians
Institutional repositories, open access and academic librarians
Copyright issues and all librarians
Other repository services
E-science and open access to data: the role of libraries
The global importance of open access 8: Conclusion Bibliography Index