Open Access: What You Need to Know Now

by Walt Crawford

Overview

Academic libraries routinely struggle to afford access to expensive journals, and patrons may not be able to obtain every scholarly paper they need. Is Open Access (OA) the answer?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780838992715
Publisher:	American Library Association
Publication date:	03/08/2011
Series:	ALA Special Report
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	80
File size:	981 KB

About the Author

Walt Crawford is an internationally recognized writer and speaker on libraries, technology, policy and media. Author of numerous books, articles, and columns, Crawford is also the creator, writer and publisher of Cites&Insights: Crawford at Large, an ejournal on the intersections of libraries, policy, technology and media published monthly since 2001. He maintains a blog on these and other issues, Walt at Random. He received the LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for Outstanding Communication for Continuing Education in Library and Information Science in 1995, the ALCTS/Blackwell Scholarship Award in 1997, and the Gale Group Online Excellence in Information Authorship Award in 1998. A senior analyst at RLG for four decades, he previously wrote Library Technology Reports vol. 41, no. 2, “Policy and Library Technology.”

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 1 Who Cares? 2 Understanding the Basics 3 Issues for Open Access 4 Open Access Controversies 5 Taking Action 6 Exploring Open Access Index