Collection development and open access

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“…Thus, an earlier survey in Sweetland and Christensen (1997) in Dinkins (n.d) stated that the two most important reasons for selecting a title are relevance to curriculum, and requests by faculty. Mullen, (2010) in Mullen, (2011) asserted that collection development in academic libraries has undergone a major transformation in the digital age. Along with the increasing inclusion of toll based electronic resources in collections comes the need to evaluate and integrate all manner of open access electronic scholarly content.…”

“…However, the library must retain its relevance as collections move to digital formats. Mullen, (2011) expressed that librarians must continue to build meaningful and useful digital library collections in an ever more complex situation, keeping in mind that many library users are overwhelmed by the deluge of information choices available to them. The library must still be the place where scholarly materials may be discovered, accessed, read and used.…”

“…Today's scholarly collections comprise both purchased/licensed material and a variety of quality open access content. Librarians will continue to build the collection of the future, exposing all relevant scholarly content, building discovery tools around that content, and working on organizing all materials in meaningful ways for library patrons and the reference librarians that serve as a bridge between the user and the material (Mullen, 2011). Mullen (2011) stated that librarians involved in collection development roles must now reach as far as possible into the larger world of web scholarly content in this 21 st century to add, organize, promote and make quality material discoverable and accessible.…”

“…Librarians will continue to build the collection of the future, exposing all relevant scholarly content, building discovery tools around that content, and working on organizing all materials in meaningful ways for library patrons and the reference librarians that serve as a bridge between the user and the material (Mullen, 2011). Mullen (2011) stated that librarians involved in collection development roles must now reach as far as possible into the larger world of web scholarly content in this 21 st century to add, organize, promote and make quality material discoverable and accessible. Librarians need to expose the research materials housed in repositories and on the open web, even as these materials are often hidden from scholars due to lack of indexing, inadequate crawling by major search engines, existence of poor quality metadata, or a lack of librarian effort at marketing of material that might maximize usage and accessibility.…”

“…According to Mullen (2011) Giri, Sen and Mahesh, (2015) asserted that collection development in academic libraries has many challenges and one of them concerns determining the number of copies of some books that are required in multiple copies in the library. The researchers added that five major academic libraries in New Delhi were surveyed to understand the prevalent policies and practices on determining the number of copies of books that are required in multiple copies.…”