creators_name: Bosc, Helene creators_name: Harnad, Stevan creators_id: creators_id: 63 type: journalp datestamp: 2005-04-07 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:55 metadata_visibility: show title: In a paperless world a new role for academic libraries: Providing Open Access ispublished: pub subjects: archives full_text_status: public keywords: self-archiving, open access, digital libraries abstract: Academic libraries should be considered research tools, co-evolving with technology. The Internet has changed the way science is communicated and hence also the role of libraries. It has made it possible for researchers to provide Open Access (OA) (i.e., toll-free, full-text, on-line access, web-wide) to their peer reviewed journal articles in two different ways: (1) by publishing in them in OA journals and (2) by publishing them in non-OA journals but also self-archiving them in their institutional OA Archives. Librarians are researchers’ best allies in both of these OA provision strategies. Some of the best examples of these pioneering libraries are described in this article. From them we conclude that an official mandate for OA provision is necessary to accelerate the growth of OA – and thereby the growth of research usage and impact -- worldwide. date: 2005 date_type: published publication: Learned Publishing volume: 18 pagerange: 95-99 refereed: TRUE referencetext: Van de Sompel, H., Lagoze C., The Santa Fe Convention of the Open Archives Initiative, D-Lib Magazine 2000: 6 (2), Feb, BOAI. Harnad, S., Brody T, Comparing the Impact of Open Access (OA) vs. Non-OA Articles in the Same Journals, D-Lib Magazine 2004, 10 (6), Jun, CERN Workshop (OAI3) LOCKSS Lund University OA Archive Lund Virtual Medical Journal DOAJ FAIR DARE ECS EPrints Service ANU ROMEO SHERPA PADI Sample Research Self-Archiving Policy Berlin Declaration WSIS Swan, A., Brown, S.N. (2004) JISC/OSI Journal Authors Survey Report, Declaration of institutional commitment citation: Bosc, Helene and Harnad, Stevan (2005) In a paperless world a new role for academic libraries: Providing Open Access. [Journal (Paginated)] document_url: http://cogprints.org/4200/1/boscharnadLP.htm document_url: http://cogprints.org/4200/2/boscharnadLP.doc