基本説明
This book is a one-stop shop useful not only to all "front-line" academic librarians but also to those planning a career in academic librarianship who seek to understand potential new roles of librarians in scholarly communication capacities. The book looks at open access from the perspective of a practicing academic librarian, and challenges fellow librarians to continue dialogue about how the movement might be affecting day to day library work, and the future of academic libraries.
Full Description
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.
Contents
About the authorPreface1: Introduction Open access in the library: implications for academic librariansKeeping up with legislation mandating open accessAssisting researchers with new open access concernsCopyright and licensing issuesRecent policy changes noted in the LIS literatureOpen access, increasing research impact, and libraries integrating free search enginesOpen access and implications for peer reviewWhat do researchers want from their libraries?2: Librarians and their own open access publishing Self-archiving by librariansAuthors in LIS and permissions to self-archiveInstitutional repositories and subject archiving for LIS authorsIntegrating LIS and other disciplines' repositories into the libraryLibrarians as authors in the journal literatureLibrarians in their roles as journal editorsHierarchy and prestige of LIS journalsLIS abstracting and indexing servicesLIS weblogs covering open access topicsOpen access journals for librariansLibrarians as publishers of open access journalsA new role for the subject specialist in open access journal publishingOpen access journals published by the Rutgers University Libraries3: Collection development and open access Librarians' relationships with traditional publishersThreats that open access may pose to librariesInertia for the LIS journal literatureLibrarians engaging in business with traditional publishersCommercial versus society publishers: different relationships with librariansRoles of librarians in discussions of university press partnershipsDissertations as important unique open access materialsOverall growth of electronic publishingOpen access and the LIS book literatureImplications for libraries of large open access book digitisation initiatives4: Librarians and their roles in the academy Promotion and tenure issues for librarians and teaching facultyOpen access and research impactFaculty status for librariansDo librarians really want to see changes in the current model?Implications of the aging of the current pool of academic librariansThe individual library's identityLibrarian behaviour echoing that of their 'other' subject specialtiesPromoting the institutional repository as the means to open accessPriorities for funding and staffing the 'new' academic library5: Collection development librarians and open access The future of collections in an open access worldOwnership versus access: implications for librariansUsage statistics and other assessment tools for open access resourcesSerials retention and preservation issuesLibrarians' views on self-archiving and its effects on the traditional literatureScholarly communication changes affecting interlibrary loanAuthor-pays open access and implications for the libraryCollection development, bibliographer and liaison librarian rolesNew roles for librarians interested in open accessAcademic library scholarly communications committees6: Public services work and open access Open access and the academic librarian: its relevance for everydayLibrary users and their knowledge of open access alternativesAsking users to change behaviourUsing DOAJ as a source of open access materialsOpen access materials available for discoveryRole of the reference librarian and the library website in promoting open accessUsing Google Scholar in reference work to discover open access materialsOpen access and other indexes and databasesDisciplinary differences in open access material presented to patronsInclusion of open access materials in traditional and emerging indexesSearching the scholarly literature: best practicesFederated search and open source solutionsVarious article versions causing confusion in public servicesCitation managers incorporating open access materialsInformation literacy with open accessOpen educational resourcesOpen access programmes planned for studentsLIS education and open access7: Open access and technical services Effects of open access on the work of technical services librariansInstitutional repositories, open access and academic librariansCopyright issues and all librariansOther repository servicesE-science and open access to data: the role of librariesThe global importance of open access8: ConclusionBibliographyIndex