Public access to research is "inevitable," but it will be a slog to get to it. That was the takeaway message of a panel on the role libraries can play in supporting current and future public-access moves. The panel was part of the program at the membership meeting of the Association of Research Libraries, held here yesterday and today.
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Still, many scholars need the hard sell from colleagues and librarians about the benefits of open access. Lorraine J. Haricombe, dean of the University of Kansas Libraries, described the "foot soldiering" and outreach that had to be done before Kansas's faculty passed an open-access resolution earlier this year. It required some "very, very challenging conversations" with scholars worried about peer review and copyright issues, Ms. Haricombe said.
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Sayeed Choudhury, associate dean of the Library Digital Program at the Johns Hopkins University and director of the Digital Data and Curation Center there, gave a tantalizing glimpse into a future where vast swathes of data will be available to researchers anywhere. Johns Hopkins's Data Conservancy project has a grant from the National Science Foundation to help develop part of the NSF's ambitious DataNet project, which aims to build an international, large-scale data-curation network. "We have to think about how we're going to reach across all these data domains," Mr. Choudhury said.
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