Abstract:
Open Access (OA) has been part of the academic publishing landscape since 2002, when the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) was created with the aim of making all academic peerreviewed articles available and accessible. Then, in 2003, the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge ("Berline Declaration") was created to echo this initiative. During the last 20 years, the support and momentum behind OA has been increasing gradually and there is a need for university and tertiary libraries to promote and support the delivery of services for OA. It is time to rethink the role of university libraries to consider what kind of OA services could be offered by university libraries, and how we could make current services more systematic and effective. Dahlia and Evie will lead the discussion about the role of STEM university libraries in OA publishing and toolkits for open access to provide research services for researchers in the university community. As a group, we will discuss topics such as:
• OA policy implementation in universities
• Library collection development – Access Models, transformative agreements such as CAUL read and publish agreement, managing funding allocations for APC, etc
• What resources or systems could the university libraries provide to promote OA? E.g., Figshare, ResearchSpace – University Repository
• Educating and training, e.g., workshops for staff and postgraduates
• What challenges are we facing? What issues are unique to STEM-focused OA publishing?
• What are the main toolkits of OA available to us? • What skills and knowledge of OA do STEM university librarians need to provide OA services?