The goal of this series, responding to an article by Annie Johnson, is to show the ways libraries, library consortia, and publishers are responding to this moment of urgency and transition when change in scholarly publishing and open access is not only possible but is actively taking place.
Libraries should partner with organizations when creating and supporting diversity initiatives for open knowledge. By budgeting in for DEIA, library budgets improve the communities of diverse populations.
Efforts to secure financial sustainability for non-profit and community-led initiatives via library membership programs are on the rise, but individual libraries might struggle to join these programs without changes to their budget structure and decision-making processes.
Not all journals have the same values, but by ranking them based on their priorities of access, rights, community, discoverability, and open-ended response libraries and publishers can make better informed decisions and strategies.
What authors need is a comprehensive OA scholarly publishing system, where profit motives are excised, and where OA publishing is centred as meritorious.
We do not need to reinvent the library’s mission for this shift to open, but we do need to update the criteria in our decision-making processes and then adjust our course.
To understand how Open Access is considered in Colombia—and in general in Latin America—we have to distinguish between 1) the Green Open Access initiatives; and 2) the Open Access discussions which are derived from APCs and TAs in the gold and hybrid open access routes.
This article discusses how libraries and authors in Ghana have engaged with EIFL’s open access agreements and what progress has been made toward increasing OA publishing output.
The challenges and successes of transitioning to Transformative Agreements, and opportunities for these agreements to continue benefiting Kenyan researchers.
We need a way for all libraries to participate and benefit from publishing agreements, but when a consortium has many diverse members, these negotiations are challenging.
by Emily Farrell, Emily Poznanski, and Charles Watkinson
To move these models from experimental to sustaining, cooperation between university presses and libraries on frameworks for assessing value and impact on both sides will be crucial.
