Ellen Finnie Duranceau and Sue Kriegsman, Implementing Open Access Policies Using Institutional Repositories

Chapter 5 in Pamela Bluh and Cindy Hepfer (eds.), _The Institutional Repository: Benefits and Challenges_, American Library Association, Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS), January 2013. Excerpt:  "Implementing an open access (OA) policy offers libraries an unusually high level of challenge. Chris Armbruster, who surveyed early policy implementers says that “open access policy implementation is a tough job. Policy pioneers have faced considerable challenges in meeting their own aims and achieving recognized success.” But the implementation process also offers a proportionally high potential for positive payback not just to the campuses, but to the academy and the world beyond. Given this level of challenge and potential impact, libraries would do well to confer with those who have travelled further down the path, in order to maximize their chances for success. Yet not much has been written to date about policy implementation, no doubt because this task is so new to libraries....OA policy implementation is a new—though natural—role for libraries, extending existing responsibilities for managing campus repositories, aggregating and curating locally created works, assigning metadata, and providing outreach on campus. While open access policy implementation is a natural i t for libraries, it is also a fundamentally different kind of implementation for libraries because it depends on the faculty for its success...."