Open Access
Topics to discuss:
- ways to involve students: SPARC initiative, Right to Research
- ways to win over faculty; needed political action
- metadata issues (not indexed, etc.)
- collection development issues (ex. Sage all-or-nothing model), impending cultural shifts
- self-archiving: a simultaneous possibility with existing publishing models; user education is needed (read your contract) > you may have the right to self-archive pre-prints
- authors need to be more aware of their rights and negotiate for more
- the disconnect with traditional thinking (open access as a 'threat')
- prestige gap (will this continue?), questions about quality, perception
- P&B issue > more conversations needed about what open access means
- open peer review
- institutional support & communication > what role does the library play? should more direction come from the provost or other centralized source?
- instituitional repositiories > should reflect the scholarly activity of the university, not just library special collections
- question about copyright, pre-prints of articles > could this create hesitation?
- ways to get the conversation started on campus? surveys?
- need for libraries, both public and academic, to agitate for change, to take an effective stand in the commercialized serials universe
- the whole system as it is doesn't make sense > we are paying twice
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