OA at UA Libraries

In this presentation Ellen Dubinsky, Scholarly Communications Librarian at the University of Arizona, explores ways in which librarians and their institutions can advocate for and support open access (OA) books and initiatives. 

This presentation was delivered as part of the workshop: “Bridging Altruism To Strategy in OA Book Publishing: How Libraries Can Close Funding Gaps to Support a Bibliodiverse Global Shared Collection” (1 May 2024, online). The workshop was organised by Lyrasis in collaboration with Open Book Futures (a Copim Community research project, co-funded by Arcadia and the Research England Development fund).

The workshop explored how libraries can better respond to the strategic and practical challenges of supporting bibliodiverse futures for open access (OA) book publishing. The event focused in particular on the new and distinct strategies required to connect the dots between different aspects of library workflows, from ensuring quality of content, to collections development, to rendering content – and especially open access content – discoverable and available for users. More information on the workshop is available here: https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/workshop-bridging-altruism-to-strategy-in-oa-book-publishing