Librarians' perceptions and motivations for supporting collaborative models for Open Access monographs · Commonplace

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Summary:

"While the survey revealed several discoveries regarding librarians' confidence in collaborative OA models for monographs, one of the key findings was that librarians still support the basic principle of OA—despite the obstacles standing in the way—and are willing to support OA models for scholarly books via crowdfunding to help make them available worldwide. They also do not overlook the importance of local benefits (i.e., the benefits for their own communities) derived from their participation. Previous studies on OA already confirmed librarians’ positive attitudes about supporting OA monograph publishing: OAPEN-UK 2014 librarian survey, for example, revealed that 80 of librarians would support OA monograph publishing merely in principle (Collins & Milloy, 2016). The study did not focus on a particular model, but it did show librarians’ commitment to OA, not only in the context of journals but also monographs...."

Link:

https://commonplace.knowledgefutures.org/pub/ff7gb1h2/release/1

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Tags:

oa.new oa.libraries oa.collaboration oa.europe oa.books oa.surveys oa.attitudes oa.business_models oa.crowd oa.obstacles oa.economics_of

Date tagged:

04/05/2021, 14:30

Date published:

04/05/2021, 04:28