Research Libraries, Emerging Technologies—and a Pandemic | EDUCAUSE

"Openness is a value and set of practices that evolved, in the digital age, from the traditional research library purpose of collecting and sharing scholarly outputs. It thus guides an array of research library activities including building digital collections and negotiating licensing terms for purchased digital content for new scholarly methods, such as text analysis and data mining. Openness is the ideal that motivates our open-access efforts and drives research libraries to partner in building data infrastructures and standards that support interoperability and data sharing. This value serves research libraries well as we prioritize work that supports distance learning and off-site research. Nurturing this value in times of trouble will ensure that our hard work done under duress is still available to our constituents in calmer times ahead of us...."