[Dspace-general] Question for the Librarians

[Sarah L. Shreeves]

Shawna -

I'll say that I'm also not necessarily bringing up open access 
publishing, but I do talk about greater dissemination and higher 
impact. I think 'open access' sometimes creates a backlash.

I'm also heavily concentrating on collecting tech reports, working 
paper and occasional paper series, etc. So I talk about publications 
but in the same breath as some of these other categories, so it 
diffuses the 'open access' debate a little. I have to say that while 
I've found faculty who want to provide open access to their 
materials, getting them to provide copies of their final manuscripts 
is hard, hard work. We have a blog on scholarly communication issues 
(http://www.library.uiuc.edu/blog/scholcomm/) and a scholarly 
communication librarian to whom I can refer people to get more 
information about open access.

It helps to come with statistics and numbers about the impact of open 
access - that mitigates some of the backlash.

Sarah


At 09:45 AM 2/22/2007, Shawna Sadler wrote:
>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
>
>--
>Shawna Sadler
>Coordinator, Digital Initiatives
>Libraries & Cultural Resources
>University of Calgary
>Phone: (403) 220-3739
>Email: ssadler at ucalgary.ca
>
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Sarah L. Shreeves
Coordinator, Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and 
Scholarship (IDEALS)
University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign
Phone: 217-244-3877 or 217-233-4648
Email: sshreeve at uiuc.edu
http://ideals.uiuc.edu/