Cheryl L. Davis and Barbara B. Moran, Preparing Tomorrow's Professionals: LIS Schools and Scholarly Communication, College & Research Libraries News, January 2005. Excerpt: 'Today's LIS (Library and Information Science) graduates will enter a work world transformed by the revolution in scholarly communication. These changes affect virtually all aspects of academic library operations. New librarians must confront challenges such as balancing and providing appropriate access to print and electronic serials collections and keeping abreast of not only current journal and database subscriptions, but also the growing number of accepted (and cited) open-access scholarly publications. They must wrestle with copyright issues and the implications of developing institutional repositories.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/04/2005 01:45:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
