How academic libraries may change when Open Access becomes the norm

alespierno's bookmarks 2017-11-13

Summary:

"The trend I am increasingly convinced that is going to have a great impact on how academic libraries will function is the rise of Open Access.  As Open Access takes hold and eventually becomes the norm in the next 10-15 years, it will disrupt many aspects of academic library operations and libraries will need to rethink the value-add they need to provide to universities"..."

1.Libraries roles in traditional discovery and even fulfillment/delivery for users will diminish

2.Libraries might make a greater focus on Special Collections and move into publishing/hosting journals

3.Libraries will have greater focus on value-add expertise services such as information literacy, data management services, GIS etc to replace the diminishing "buyer" role

4.Budgets of libraries might shrink

5.Modernising Referencing practices

Link:

http://musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.it/2014/08/how-academic-libraries-may-change-when.html

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » alespierno's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.libraries oa.attitudes oa.predictions oa.debates oa.impact oa.usage oa.surveys oa.google_scholar oa.discoverability oa.crisis oa.tools oa.librarians oa.gold oa.green oa.platforms oa.up oa.conservation oa.digitization oa.ithaka oa.budgets oa.funders oa.transition oa.information_literacy oa.repositories oa.journals

Date tagged:

11/13/2017, 03:43

Date published:

11/09/2017, 23:59