Progress and Renewal

"Unfortunately, while all of Partnership’s content is free and fully open access, many of the sources citing Partnership articles are not. In their 2007 study, Carter, Snyder, and Imre, quoting Peter Suber, wrote “‘There is a serious problem [serials pricing and permission crisis], known best to librarians, and a beautiful solution [open access] within the reach of scholars.’ One can draw the conclusion from Suber’s statement that librarians as authors should be the most prominent supporters of open access…” (68). Sadly, the authors concluded from their study that “…library faculty members are not practicing what they generally advocate” (77). With all of the many reputable open access publications available to them, when will librarians begin to walk the talk and stop publishing in closed/toll access journals? ..."