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Navigating murky waters between closed- and open-access content: The role of libraries and their institutional repositories
Álvarez, Jaquelina E. Rodríguez, Grisell Valentín, Anidza
Álvarez, Jaquelina E.
Rodríguez, Grisell
Valentín, Anidza
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Abstract
While scholars were early pioneers to take on the cause of the open access (OA) movement,
librarians have embraced it due to its closely knitted relation to their philosophical belief in
access to information as a fundamental right for the public good. Coming into the scene,
publishers with their particular take on OA begin generating their own hybrid and OA business
models. Furthermore, in the last decade, funding and governmental agencies have also entered
the arena by adding mandates that respond to the need for easily accessible research results.
Traditional versus new models of scholarly publishing have created a very complex
environment. Libraries continue to create innovative services encompassing dissemination and preservation of
scholarly communication. Emerging technologies, such as an Institutional Repository (IR), have
provided a trajectory to fulfilling OA expectations. IRs can provide a sustainable transition to
open access in addition to long-term discoverability of institutional “memories” (such as theses,
dissertations, data sets, and other scholarly outputs) thus narrowing the accessibility gap. Hence,
the transformative role of libraries from custodians of knowledge to content providers. Librarians understand researchers’ current conflicting paradigms while trying to promote the
benefits of IRs and their long-term archiving function and navigate the murky waters between
copyright, levels of openness, and bridging the inequality of access. This presentation aims to
expose some issues related to the balance between the need and right of the public to what is
being produced with public funding, making it easily discoverable and accessible and, on the
other hand, the protection of the intellectual property of content producers.
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2019-08-05
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Open access, Journal costs, Open access movement, Academic librarians, Information access equality