1. Open access, the academic library and collection management : new problems, new responsibilities, new challenges
Dorette Snyman
Unisa Library

2. Open access: Three scenarios: Scenario 1:
“We resign and create an open access journal in competition”

5. Scenario 2:
“Let’s put everything we’ve written in our institutional repository”

7. Scenario 3:
“I want to publish my own journal and I see open access as the answer”
“I believe in the principles of open access and contribute to an open access journal”

9. If open access is the answer?
If the academic library’s core purpose is to organize, preserve and make knowledge accessible
And to make information accessible, findable, and searchable for students and researchers
Future of the academic library is tied to the health of the scholarly communication environment
What are the problems & challenges?

10. New challenges: Finding & searching
Listing OA journals in Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), J-Gate, PubMedCentral, Google Directory, Directory of Open Access Repositories (openDOAR)
South African journals & IR’s?
Do you list these indexes on your library’s web site?
Searching:
Indexed & searchable in bibliographic & other databases
Do your information librarians use OA directories for searching?
How about volunteering to index our OA journals?
Where are our SA open access (free) journals?
And institutional repositories?
Your library’s web site: A-Z lists, research gateways?
Bad day if Google indexing is the best

12. How findable is this article?
Where is this article indexed? Not in ISAP.
No information on the journal web site
Thank you to SA E-Publications for making an effort

13. Problem 2: Searchability of SA OA journals
South African journal of animal science – ISAP up to 2002
Included in SA E-Publications – good publications page

14. Seachability in A&I databases
Open access journals
Limited coverage of OA journals

15. Listing is free

16. Linking & citing information

17. More new challenges: IR’s
Commercial publishers:
OA & self-archiving policies of publishers
Negotiating licence agreements to include IR’s
Inform researchers of policies eg. Sherpa
What about publishers that refuse to change?
What about SA publishers?
New pricing models for “author payment” model
Institutional Repositories on campus:
Be involved and drive the debate
Participate in establishing technical infrastructure & metadata
Researchers form discourse communities, libraries can easily be excluded if they do continually proof their value

22. Even more challenges: Advocacy
Support OA initiatives
DOAJ, SPARC membership
Add your voice to put pressure on commercial publishers
Information Access Alliance
Drive the debate in your environment
Provide resources
ALA Scholarly Communication Toolkit
Support and actively participate on OA in South Africa
Offer your expertise – indexing, metadata, examples of other successful initiatives

23. How many libraries are contributing?

27. Is it then worth the effort?
Conclusion
Open access is not only about free
If the information (or article) is not findable, searchable, retrievable & preserved
Your work is not “open”,
It is not be part of the scholarly discourse
It will not be used to build new knowledge
Is it then worth the effort?

28. URL’s Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/
J-Gate
Directory of Open Access Repositories
SPARC
SHERPA
Information Access Alliance
ALA Scholarly Communication Toolkit
Creative Commons
International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication ICAAP