Open Access and Its Practical Impact on the Work of Academic Librarians : Collection Development, Public Services, and the Library and Information Science Literature

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 Self-archiving by librarians, and roles assisting patrons with self-archiving on the green road to open access; Open access journals and other resources for librarians; Librarians as publishers of open access journals; Librarians' relationships with traditional publishers-commercial and scholarly; current stresses; Journal acquisitions and implications of availability of open access journals; Open access and current changes in book acquisitions practices; Promotion and tenure issues-for faculty librarians and for librarians assisting other junior faculty in the academy; What do librarians' want the library collection to look like? Implications of library workforce; aging of librarians, holding onto the status quo; Identity of the individual library; potential changes in funding and staffing in light of open access; Preservation issues; Role of the institutional repository in promoting open access; New roles for librarians in scholarly communications capacities; Role of the reference librarian in terms of knowledge of, and offering of open access alternatives; Library users and their knowledge of open access alternatives for their work; Changes in search due to open access; Inclusion of open access materials in subscription indexes and databases; LIS education and teaching changing scholarly communications paradigms; Advocacy efforts of LIS organizations, and promotion of open access in the academy; Librarians as publishers. 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 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 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 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 Conclusion 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

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. 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 Content: Front matter , Pages i-iii Copyright , Page iv About the author , Page ix Preface , Pages xi-xiii 1 - Introduction , Pages 1-35 2 - Librarians and their own open access publishing , Pages 37-73 3 - Collection development and open access , Pages 75-101 4 - Librarians and their roles in the academy , Pages 103-120 5 - Collection development librarians and open access , Pages 121-145 6 - Public services work and open access , Pages 147-179 7 - Open access and technical services , Pages 181-205 8 - Conclusion , Pages 207-210 Bibliography , Pages 211-229 Index , Pages 231-240