Open Access and its Practical Impact on the Work of Academic Librarians
This book is aimed at the practicing academic librarian, especially those working on the afront linesa of reference, instruction, collection development, and other capacities that involve dealing directly with library patrons in a time of changing scholarly communication paradigms. The book looks at open access from the perspective of a practicing academic librarian and challenges fellow librarians to continue the dialogue about how the movement might be affecting day-to-day library work and the future of academic libraries. Written by a practicing academic librarian with many years experience in reference, as well as in collection development and faculty liaison roles Written with the afront-line academic librarian in mind from a practical point of view Contains numerous references to refer the reader to many open access resources; includes extensive footnotes for further readingLibrarians also need to be watching the open access textbook trends and discussing the librarya#39;s part in supporting, advocating or ... Use of the word a#39;library a#39; has been applied to nontraditional players such as the Internet Archive, which uses the term a#39;internet librarya#39; to describe what it is building. ... Libraries will have to decide whether to move to publishing, whether to include free web book collections inanbsp;...
| Title | : | Open Access and its Practical Impact on the Work of Academic Librarians |
| Author | : | Laura Bowering Mullen |
| Publisher | : | Elsevier - 2009-12-30 |
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