Open Access And Its Practical Impact On The Work Of Academic

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. 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. It is written by a practicing academic librarian with many years experience in reference, as well as in collection development and faculty liaison roles. It is written with the front-line academic librarian in mind from a practical point of view. It contains numerous references to refer the reader to many open access resources; includes extensive footnotes for further reading. It is suitable for practicing academic librarians, library school students, LIS faculty teaching scholarly communications topics, those involved in open access LIS publishing, and others interested in the how open access is affecting front-line librarians.

Table of Contents:
Self-archiving by librarians, and roles assisting patrons with self-archiving on the greenA' 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 quoA'; 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.

Author Biography:
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.