Introduction to OAWAL: Open Access Workflows for Academic Librarians

While librarians, researchers, and the general public have embraced the concept of Open Access (OA), librarians still have a difficult time managing OA resources. To find out why, Bulock and Hosburgh surveyed librarians about their experiences managing OA resources and the strengths and weaknesses of management systems. At this session, they shared survey results, reflected on OA workflows at their own libraries, and updated audience members on relevant standards and initiatives. Survey respondents reported challenges related to hybrid OA, inaccurate metadata, and inconsistent communication along the serials supply chain. Recommended solutions included the creation of consistent, centralized article-level metadata and the development of OA collection development principles for libraries.KEYWORDS Open Access, metadata, knowledgebases, link resolvers, discovery services, electronic resources Managing Open Access (OA) resources remains challenging for libraries, even though librarians, researchers, and the general public have embraced the concept of OA. To find out why, Chris Bulock of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and Nathan Hosburgh of Rollins College surveyed librarians about the systems and procedures they used to manage OA resources and how they could be improved. At their session, Bulock and Hosburgh reviewed key standards and initiatives related to OA management, reflected on the OA management practices used by survey respondents and at their own libraries, and considered how information professionals could collaborate to solve persistent problems identified in their survey. Hosburgh opened the session with a review of the Open Access environment, listing the types of OA resources and systems covered in the study. He also covered several initiatives undertaken by publishers, researchers, vendors, and librarians, demonstrating that OA drives much innovation in scholarly communication. Next he reviewed the various systems Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and Rollins College use to manage electronic resources, including OA content. Discovery services, catalogs, knowledgebases, library web pages, and research guides each come with their

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“…Bulock suggested that Jill Emery and Graham Stone's Open Access Workflows for Academic Libraries (OAWAL) wiki could help fill this need. 4 …”

Section: Libraries Need To Clarify the Role Of Oa In Collectionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

OA in the Library Collection: The Challenges of Identifying and Maintaining Open Access Resources

Bulock

Hosburgh

Mann

2015

The Serials Librarian

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“…This view was also supported by Emery and Stone (2014) outputs. Whilst this is a moot point recently disputed by Wray (2016) and Ottaviani (2016), the majority of research supports the view that OA does increase citation advantage (Niyazov, 2016;McCabe, 2014;Sullo, 2016;Wang et al, 2015).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 52%

Establishing the Role and Impact of Academic Librarians in Supporting Open Research: A Case Study at Leeds Beckett University, UK

Bower

Sheppard

Bayjoo

et al. 2017

New Review of Academic Librarianship

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This practical paper presents findings of a small scale study undertaken at a large UK University.The purpose of the study was to encourage academic engagement with Open Access (OA) and the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) mandate with the measurable impact being increased engagement with the Repository and dissemination of research whilst circulating information to the wider community. In order to promote research, a series of 'Focus on' webpages were created aligned to a particular theme, and were then disseminated via social media. It was anticipated that by potentially increasing access to research outputs, academic staff would be motivated to make their work available following OA models and use the institutional repository (IR) as a means to achieve this. The main drivers for the study were the Finch Report

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“…Some of these opportunities include the formation of a Scholarly Communications Core Competencies Task Force by NASIG (Kelley, 2014) and the introduction of OAWAL: Open Access Workflows for Academic Librarians (Emery & Stone, 2014). Additionally, there has been a wide variety of conference presentations and workshops, a welcome opportunity for fledgling presses to learn from more-seasoned library publishers.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%