[GOAL] Discussion on Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes required by Librarians for Open Access]

[Heather Morrison]

greetings Barnali Roy Choudhury,

It is very good to see this initiative. I am a professor of information
studies who has developed and taught courses on scholarly communication
and open access, and if desired I would be happy to contribute towards
this project.

Your list of key areas to study is a good one. May I suggest that you add
a little bit about the basics of the economics of scholarly communication
and the potential for transition to open access. My recent article on this
topic in First Monday may be useful in this respect - not wishing to
promote my own work so much as this is a macro level view of the economics
and I'm not aware of anything that explains the situation as clearly as
this:
http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4370

Wishing you all the best in this initiative,

Dr. Heather Morrison

> {Apologies for Cross Posting}
> I am currently assisting the Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia
> (CEMCA) in developing Curriculum and Self-Directed Learning (SDL) Tool
for
> Open Access for researchers and library and information professionals as
a
> project of UNESCO. The UNESCO adopted Open Access strategy in 2011, and
with effect from 1 July 2013 it has become fully Open Access. Capacity
building to promote Open Access is one of the important strands of the
UNESCO strategy.  The UNESCO Open Access Forum 2011 also recommended
training of young researchers and library professionals on Open Access.
As a first step, we would like to seek help of experts though a
discussion
> on this platform to identify Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes needed for
Open Access by Library and Information Professionals and Researchers.
So,
> we will have two strands of discussion: One for Librarians and the other
for Researchers. This week we start with training needs for
Librarians…
> Librarians play a significant role in providing access to peer reviewed
information published in journals and help manage local repositories.
Sometime back we did a Delphi study with select experts, which revealed
the
> following as key areas for the librarians to study:
> * *
> *Module 1: Foundations*
> 1. Introduction to Open Access: Definition, types (green, gold,
delayed),
> OA journals (gold and hybrid), OA books, OA repositories, benefits,
barriers (publisher resistance), philosophy of access to knowledge,
disciplinary trends; Open Access Policy development, including funder
policies
> 2. Copyrights and licensing mechanisms for Open Access, such as the
creative commons licenses, copyleft and publishers’ embargo in
self-archiving
> * *
> *Module 2: Practical Options and Systems*
> 3. Repositories and issues involved in creating and maintaining
> repositories, author self-archiving
> 4. Open Access Journal publishing systems and processes
> * *
> *Module 3: Initiatives, Implications and Issues*
> 5. Searching of Open Access information (Vehicles for Open Access:
OAIster
> and other Open Access Search Engines, PubMed), Metadata related issues,
SHERPA RoMEO, DOAJ, DOAB, GOAP, OA Map, etc.
> 6. Impact of Open Access on dissemination of knowledge, citation
advantages, estimating impact; Changing practices in scholarly
> communication, including open peer review, emerging approaches to
recognition of scholarly works
> 7. Implications of online-only format for long-term preservation of OA
content (Google Books, Internet Archive, Hathi Trust, other non-U.S.
large
> initiatives)
> While this is useful, we need to identify the Knowledge, Skills and
Attitudes to develop the curriculum and content learning materials. You
may
> also like to comment on the suitability of the above topics. If you want to
> share more on the topic privately, kindly do so in the emails:
> smishra.col at gmail.com and barna.chakrabarti at gmail.com
> --
> With Regards,
> Barnali Roy Choudhury
> Project Associate (Open Access)
> Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia
> 13/14 Sarv Priya Bihar
> New Delhi 110016
> ​www.cemca.org​
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-- 
Dr. Heather Morrison
Assistant Professor
École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies
University of Ottawa
http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/
Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca


-- 
Dr. Heather Morrison
Assistant Professor
École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies
University of Ottawa
http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/
Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca
ALA Accreditation site visit scheduled for 30 Sept-1 Oct 2013 /
Visite du comité externe pour l'accréditation par l'ALA est prévu le 30
sept-1 oct 2013
http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/accreditation.html
http://www.esi.uottawa.ca/accreditation.html