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- Title
Librarians and Academic Libraries' Role in Promoting Open Access: What Needs to Change?
- Authors
Hadad, Shlomit; Aharony, Noa
- Abstract
Profound changes due to Open-Access (OA) publications lead to organizational changes in universities and libraries. This study examines Israeli librarians' perceptions regarding their role and the academic library's role in promoting OA-publications, including the barriers, challenges, needs, and requirements necessary to promote OA publishing. Lack of a budget for OA-agreements, no cooperation from university management, and researchers' unfamiliarity with OA were among the most prominent barriers. Librarians see great importance in their role of advising researchers regarding OA. However, they insist on a regulated OA-policy at the national and institutional levels to strengthen their status as change-leaders of the OA-movement.
- Subjects
ACADEMIC librarians; OPEN access publishing; SCHOLARLY communication; RESEARCH management; LIBRARY science
- Publication
College & Research Libraries, 2024, Vol 85, Issue 4, p464
- ISSN
0010-0870
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5860/crl.85.4.464