<font size="2"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">[Forwarding from the ScholComm list. --Peter Suber.]<br></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br>
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If time permits, I'd really appreciate any and all who can complete this brief<br>
survey in the next couple of weeks to gather some librarians' thoughts,<br>
opinions, experiences, rants, and institutional policies on Open Access and<br>
their student-users.<br>
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Much library literature focuses on the pros and cons of OA and all its<br>
attendant hot-button issues, and while there is a great deal published<br>
concerning educating teaching faculty to the benefits of publishing in OA<br>
journals and creating institutional repositories, there hasn't been as much<br>
attention paid to on how, if at all, the word gets out to students.<br>
Since most studies indicate that faculty familiarity with OA publishing is wide<br>
but not deep, one can assume simply by working the reference or serials desk<br>
that students' knowledge of what OA is rather scant. My research includes<br>
looking at how schools working behind the scenes with tools like their link<br>
resolvers, subject selectors, ERM's and Web committees and more in the public<br>
space of their Web pages to raise awareness and ease of access for students.<br>
Part of gauging where we're at will include the results from this brief survey.<br>
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Thanks in advance for taking the few minutes it'll take to do this survey.<br>
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