Appendix G: OA statement - Google Docs

"The Ames Library supports open access (OA) scholarly publishing by

• Providing an institutional repository, Digital Commons @ IWU, where faculty and student scholarship is openly accessible and readily discoverable.

• Creating digital collections that enhance access to our special collections and archives as well as faculty and student research and creative activity.

• Subscribing to publications of not-for-profit publishers when those publishers are trying to move toward OA publishing.  

• Working behind the scenes to improve discovery systems so that OA content is as readily discoverable as paid content.

• Monitoring developments in OA.

• Contributing collections funds in support of select OA initiatives.

• Examples of initiatives for consideration include: Open Library of Humanities, Lever Press, Open Book Publishers, Open Access Network,  PeerJ, BioMed Central, the Directory of Open Access Journals, Internet Archive, and Knowledge Unlatched. "