Open Access: What You Need to Know Now

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American Library Association, Mar 8, 2011 - Computers - 76 pages
Academic libraries routinely struggle to afford access to expensive journals, and patrons may not be able to obtain every scholarly paper they need. Is Open Access (OA) the answer?
 

Contents

1 Who Cares?
1
2 Understanding the Basics
11
3 Issues for Open Access
25
4 Open Access Controversies
39
5 Taking Action
53
6 Exploring Open Access
63
Index
71
Backcover
78
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Walt Crawford is an internationally recognized writer and speaker on libraries, technology, policy and media. Author of numerous books, articles, and columns, Crawford is also the creator, writer and publisher of Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large, an ejournal on the intersections of libraries, policy, technology and media published monthly since 2001. He maintains a blog on these and other issues, Walt at Random. He received the LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for Outstanding Communication for Continuing Education in Library and Information Science in 1995, the ALCTS/Blackwell Scholarship Award in 1997, and the Gale Group Online Excellence in Information Authorship Award in 1998. A senior analyst at RLG for four decades, he previously wrote Library Technology Reports vol. 41, no. 2, “Policy and Library Technology.”