[Dspace-general] Question for the Librarians

[David Palmer]

We saw an interesting turn.  One of our faculties is now asking that the
budget funding the Library be used to pay for OA charges when their authors
publish in journals offering OA.  Though we have an insitutional repository
here, this faculty has shown no interest in it previously.  I have seen many
cases where the funding body of the research offers to pay these OA charges,
but never one in which the Library pays them.  Are we the first to be so
asked?

David Palmer
Systems Librarian
Technical Services Support Team Leader
The University of Hong Kong Libraries
Pokfulam Road
Hong Kong
tel. +852 2859 7004


-----Original Message-----
From: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu]
On Behalf Of Shawna Sadler
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 11:45 PM
To: dspace-general at mit.edu
Subject: [Dspace-general] Question for the Librarians

Hello Librarians and other people who communicate with faculty on campus.

Has anyone else received backlash from their faculty about this new push for
mandatory deposit of federally funded research?

I have one journal editor on campus who is absolutely irate. His journal is
with Lippincott Williams which of course has the most conservative of
policies when it comes to institutional repositories. I was presenting our
IR to the faculty and my presentation turned into an open access debate.

Are any of you taking a proactive stance on the matter, or just waiting for
the dust to settle and ready to accept research when everyone has calmed
down? I haven't decided yet and would like to hear how you are approaching
this issue on campus.

Thanks,
Shawna

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Shawna Sadler
Coordinator, Digital Initiatives
Libraries & Cultural Resources
University of Calgary
Phone: (403) 220-3739
Email: ssadler at ucalgary.ca

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