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<p class="MsoNormal">***Apologies for cross posting***<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Colleagues may be interested in a report published today by SAGE in association with the British Library on the role for academic librarians in an OA future<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The report can be accessed online here: <a href="http://www.uk.sagepub.com/repository/binaries/pdf/Library-OAReport.pdf">
http://www.uk.sagepub.com/repository/binaries/pdf/Library-OAReport.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kind regards<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mithu Lucraft,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">PR Manager,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">SAGE<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<b><span style="color:black">WHAT ROLE WILL ACADEMIC LIBRARIES PLAY IN MOVING TOWARDS AN OPEN ACCESS FUTURE?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><i><span style="color:black">SAGE publishes report following roundtable in association with the British Library<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<b><i><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black">London, UK (04 September, 2012) – In April, leading independent academic and professional publisher
<b>SAGE </b>convened a roundtable in association with the <b>British Library</b> into the role of the academic library in an open access (OA) future. Chaired by publishing consultant Simon Inger and attended by an international panel of 14 senior librarians
and other industry experts, the conclusions of this discussion have today been published in a report, “<b><i>Moving towards an open access future: the role of academic libraries</i></b>”.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black">The report is a summary of the discussion around what support and skills librarians will require in an OA future, and how institutions, publishers, funders and other parties should be
supporting their library partners, including variation by discipline and geographic region. Representing librarians from the UK, Europe, USA and the Middle East, attendees indicated that the concept of the individual library is changing. Panellists highlighted
an important shift, recognizing that attention will shift from the library to the librarian: the information professional will be the library of the future. Academic libraries and research communication will have to evolve as open access grows in importance,
but while traditional roles may change, librarians will still play an important role in managing and advising on information and information-related budgets.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black">Key discussions include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:
none">
Addressing the culture of mistrust and misunderstanding regarding OA amongst researchers<o:p></o:p>
</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:
none">
The varying uptake of OA and the subsequent impacts <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:
none">
The key roles that librarians will play in:<o:p></o:p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1;text-autospace:
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Sharing discovery and support services amongst libraries and institutions<o:p></o:p>
</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1;text-autospace:
none">
Managing services such as institutional repositories<o:p></o:p> </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1;text-autospace:
none">
Providing licensing and related advice to researchers<o:p></o:p> </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1;text-autospace:
none">
Supporting preservation and managing metadata and recognising the importance of recommender services<o:p></o:p>
</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1;text-autospace:
none">
Explaining open access to researchers. <o:p></o:p></li></ul>
</li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black">Open access calls for a greater move towards communication and working together. The report concluded that to remain an important part of the research process in institutions and beyond,
the librarian has to be creative and support users in new ways through communication, collaboration and tools.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black"> </span>Stephen Barr, President SAGE International said, “SAGE is committed to supporting the sustainable dissemination of scholarly and educational material. The shift to open access
raises issues for the whole scholarly communication process, and we are committed to working with our stakeholders to navigate these changes together. We were delighted to work with the British Library in hosting this workshop to review the potential challenges
for academic libraries. Events since the workshop, such as the Finch report and restatement of the position of the EU on access to and preservation of scientific information, have increased the importance of engaging with these changes for many stakeholders.
We are part of a changing scholarly landscape and are committed to supporting our publishing partners, including launching new SAGE Open journals and widening the availability of our SAGE Choice programme at a lower rate for the humanities and social sciences.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">Caroline Brazier, Director of Scholarship and Collections, The British Library, said, “The research library community has been awaiting a ‘sea-change’ in the world of scholarly communications [...] and it may
finally be arriving. Open Access is expected to speed up research progress, productivity, and knowledge transfer as well as promoting the democratisation of knowledge. While research librarians have been amongst the strongest advocates of open access models,
the implications of these models for research libraries and their future role in supporting the research process are less well understood. With this in mind, we very much welcomed the opportunity to work with SAGE to host the roundtable at the British Library
and to participate in stimulating discussions. We hope this report conveys the urgency and significance of these issues to the wider research community.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The report, “<b><i>Moving towards an open access future: the role of academic libraries</i></b>”, forms part of a suite of research-led resources commissioned by SAGE for the
librarian community. Others include: “<b><i><a href="http://libraryvalue.wordpress.com/report/">Working Together: evolving value for academic libraries</a></i></b>” and “<b><i><a href="http://www.sagepub.com/repository/binaries/librarian/DiscoverabilityWhitePaper/">Improving
Discoverability of Content in the Twenty-First Century</a> </i></b>”. The full report can be viewed here. For further information about this report and the other white papers for the library community, please visit
<a href="http://www.uk.sagepub.com/librarians">SAGE ‘s Library page</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">“<b><i>Moving towards an open access future: the role of academic libraries</i></b>” was produced by
<b><i>Research Information’s</i></b> editor, Sian Harris as the summary of roundtable discussion convened by
<b>SAGE Publications Ltd</b> in association with the <b>British Library</b>. The final report is a summary of the roundtable held on the 26 April 2012, with a panel of 14 librarians and industry participants. The findings reflect the opinions of the participants.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">SAGE
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">is a leading international publisher of journals, books, and electronic media for academic, educational, and professional markets. Since 1965, SAGE has helped inform and educate a
global community of scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students spanning a wide range of subject areas including business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology, and medicine. An independent company, SAGE has principal offices in Los
Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington DC. www.sagepublications.com
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">The British Library</span></b><span style="color:black"> is the national library of the United Kingdom and one of the world's greatest research libraries. It provides world class information services to the
academic, business, research and scientific communities and offers unparalleled access to the world's largest and most comprehensive research collection. The Library's collection has developed over 250 years and exceeds 150 million separate items representing
every age of written civilisation and includes books, journals, manuscripts, maps, stamps, music, patents, photographs, newspapers and sound recordings in all written and spoken languages. Up to 10 million people visit the British Library website - www.bl.uk
- every year where they can view up to 4 million digitised collection items and over 40 million pages. <a href="http://www.bl.uk">http://www.bl.uk</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">The roundtable was chaired by Simon Inger, publishing<span style="color:black"> consultant and was attended by:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2;text-autospace:none">Carol Tenopir,
<i>University of Tennessee School of Information Sciences<o:p></o:p></i> </li></ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;text-autospace:none">Carolyn Alderson,
<i>JISC Collections<o:p></o:p></i> </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;text-autospace:none">Catriona Cannon,
<i>Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford<o:p></o:p></i> </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;text-autospace:none">Christine Fyfe,
<i>University of Leicester<o:p></o:p></i> </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;text-autospace:none">Elizabeth Chapman,
<i>London School of Economics and Political Science<o:p></o:p></i> </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;text-autospace:none">June Hedges,
<i>University College London<o:p></o:p></i> </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;text-autospace:none">Lars Bjornshauge,
<i>IFLA & SPARC Europe<o:p></o:p></i> </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;text-autospace:none">Liz Jolly,
<i>Teesside University<o:p></o:p></i> </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;text-autospace:none">Michael Jubb,
<i>Research Information Network<o:p></o:p></i> </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;text-autospace:none">Mohammed Mubarek,
<i>Qatar Foundation<o:p></o:p></i> </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;text-autospace:none">Nicky Whitsed,
<i>Open University<o:p></o:p></i> </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;text-autospace:none">Rick Anderson,
<i>University of Utah<o:p></o:p></i> </li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="color:windowtext">Tony Kidd,
<i>SHEDL</i></span><o:p></o:p> </li></ul>
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