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Research; and SPARC. Broader participation/input should also garner wider attention on the OA Engagement Strategy. Measuring success of the OA Engagement Strategy: The success of the CARL 2010 Open Access Engagement Strategy might be measured by: an article and ad appearing in a widely read publication for researchers such as University Affairs or CAUT Bulletin (perhaps editorial letters in response to said article?); the number and variety of meetings that result from the letter writing facet of the strategy; the number of events –national, regional, and local – where someone makes an OA themed presentation on behalf of CARL; and the degree to which OA programs and mandates are implemented or considered, and any further steps granting councils might take towards enforcing policies requiring OA to the research they fund. 2010-01-28 Document 10
CARL Brief for Open Access Engagement Strategy May 2010 Document 11 The Rationale for Open Access Open Access (OA) is a means of disseminating scholarly and scientific literature over the internet free of charge to researchers and to anyone else who might benefit from accessing the results of publicly funded research. Research libraries have lent their support to the open access movement as a way of extending their mandates to preserve and provide access to the world’s knowledge, but have also seen in it a viable solution to the problem of escalating journal subscription prices. From 1989 onwards the average scientific journal price had steadily risen by 315 % by 2003. Prices have increased at a slower rate in recent years, however, they continue to rise by about 9 % yearly 1 . Libraries have been able to defray the costs of providing access to the corpus of scholarly journal literature by transitioning more and more to an electronic access and archiving environment by way of regional consortial journal content licensing arrangements or by purchasing much of the same electronic content for perpetual institutional ownership. However, even the most financially endowed university libraries cannot subscribe to all 24, 000 scholarly, scientific, technical, and medical journals that are currently published. Faced with this problem, libraries must periodically cancel journal subscriptions in order to allocate their limited acquisitions budgets to the journal content faculty and students at their host institutions use most heavily. This is something which places students and researchers at a disadvantage. Research is increasingly a multi‐disciplinary endeavor and it is not always easy to for libraries to determine what content they can dispense with in the collections they manage. This is problem for large institutions, but especially for libraries that support medium and smaller‐sized higher learning institutions. The current global economic crisis that began in the fall of 2008 has added impetus for libraries and Academia to consider bringing OA practices into the way they conduct their business – especially in light of budgetary cutbacks or freezes. But OA is not only about devising sustainable publishing and access models to research journal literature. Researchers and librarians also see it as a means to repair a scholarly publishing system that, although it has worked in the world of print‐based dissemination, drastically limits the possibilities offered by the emerging networked research environment and the internet. If researchers cannot always access parts of the current research literature in their fields they are missing information that is potentially vital to their research, and the result is that the progress of scientific discovery is stalled. Open Access levels the field for researchers everywhere, in terms of accessibility, giving scientific literature the broadest possible dissemination so researchers can find it, interpret it, and build on it to help solve problems and challenges society faces. Recommendation: The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) recommends that all stakeholders in Higher Education in Canada seriously explore how they can support Open Access by way of new publishing initiatives, OA policies and institutional mandates. 1 Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook (OASIS) , Why librarians should be concerned with Open Access http://www.openoasis.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=254&Itemid=256 , and Association of Research Libraries, Monograph and Serial Expenditures in ARL Libraries, 1986 – 2003 http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/monser04.pdf 1
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