Top Five (5) Ways for Librarians to Contribute to Open Access (OA) Movement

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From the UBC Academic Search – Google Scholar Blog:

Top Five (5) Ways for Librarians to Contribute to Open Access (OA) Movement

1) Increase your own knowledge of OA issues; visit Open Access News daily;
2) Support OA by developing ‘information kits’ in your library organization to raise general awareness of open access principles and practices;
3) Develop ‘self-archiving‘ process to increase records in local repositories;
4) Show your solidarity by featuring open access journals on your library website (thanks to John Willinsky for that idea); do displays; handouts; presentations etc.
5) Deposit papers and presentations into E-LIS – the open archive for librarians and information specialists, or other digital archive – PubMedCentral, for example.

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About Erika Wayne

Erika V. Wayne is deputy library director and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School. Along with George Wilson, Kate Wilko and Paul Lomio, Erika Wayne has co-taught Advanced Legal Research for 3 years. Erika's interest in Open Access dates back to the 1996 when she helped in the development of the Securities Class Action Clearinghouse -- the first court designated internet site for public posting of securities litigation filings. And, she hates to pay for *anything* that should be free. She has a law degree from Penn and a library degree from Illinois.

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