A Case for Continued Strategic Investments by Research Libraries to Advance Research and Learning - Association of Research Libraries

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Summary:

"1. Reduce barriers to information access and use in order to increase the opportunity to create new knowledge by shifting the culture of scholarship towards open science and open education. Research libraries have done this by:

 

  • Creating and sustaining investment in global and national infrastructures to provide access to open scholarly information through partnerships (such as Confederation of Open Access Repositories, Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services, Invest in Open Infrastructure, and OER Commons)
  • Making major investments in all forms of open access scholarly publishing, including journals (such as through BioOne and PLOS), monographs (such as through Knowledge Unlatched, Open Humanities Press, and TOME), and research data (such as through Dataverse)
  • Creating, curating, organizing, and promoting massive collections of open educational resources particularly at a time focused on education affordability
  • Creating and contributing to open repositories for depositing research outputs, including underlying data and code (such as PubMed)
  • Negotiating licensing agreements with commercial vendors to significantly increase barrier-free access to information (such as transformative agreements)
  • Leading (with the scholarly community) the adoption of open metadata standards and infrastructure (such as findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) data) and persistent identifiers (such as digital object identifiers and ORCID IDs)..."

 

Link:

https://www.arl.org/news/a-case-for-continued-strategic-investments-by-research-libraries-to-advance-research-and-learning/

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Date tagged:

07/11/2020, 08:51

Date published:

07/11/2020, 04:52