Serials and Other Continuing Resources Section joint with Acquisition and Collection Development

"Theme: 'Open Access: Action Required'

Date

16 August (starting at 12 noon) – 17 August 2017 (9:00 am to 6:00 pm)

Venue

European Solidarity Center, Gdańsk, Poland

Sponsored by: IFLA Section on Serials and Other Continuing Resources Co-sponsored by: IFLA Section on Acquisition and Collection Development Hosted by: Joseph Conrad Voivodship and City Public Library in Gdańsk, Poland

Scope / Objectives of the Satellite meeting

Open Access (OA) resources are important to the information needs of today’s researchers. Over the years, the number of OA resources has grown substantially and will continue to do so. They are here to stay. This satellite will address how libraries and others are meeting the challenges of Open Access. It will attempt to answer how libraries are staffing and organizing operations to support OA. Another focus will be how libraries identify OA resources and market them to their communities. The satellite will also consider long term preservation of OA resources.

The program will be divided into three sessions titled:

• Long-term preservation of Open Access Resources,
• Marketing of Open Access Resources, and
• Discovery and Access of Open Access Resources.

Librarians, information professionals, researchers, editors, and others are invited to submit paper proposals addressing topics that relate with one of the three session themes.

Examples of such topics include (but are not limited to):

• Selecting and identifying OA resources
• Discoverability of OA resources and datasets
• Best practices for staffing and organizing OA operations
• Promoting and Marketing OA resources
• Partnerships between vendors and librarians for OA
• Institutional Repositories and long term preservation solutions
• Recruiting authors for OA publishing"