Aligning Interests, Mobilizing Scholarship: Embedding Sustainable Donor-Funded Open Access in the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto.

"The talk will address the particular advantages and challenges of this model of funding for open access. Most of all, it will address how the locus of ‘ownership’ of the project, nominally within the development officer’s portfolio but with significant oversight from the Dean’s office as well, has posed some interesting questions to how the library typically supports open scholarship. How ‘deep’ does the library’s commitment go when, to some, a repository seems like only a highly functional but low-impact container for files. How can we better “sell” the knowledge mobilization inherent in Green Open Access, and embed it within the business practices and workflows of departments and individual researchers? What in fact, is a donor getting for their money?"