The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published a special issue of Research Library Issues (RLI) on strategies for opening up content. The special issue (no. 269, April 2010) focuses on approaches now being deployed to increase the amount of content that is open and available to the research library community and by extension the larger world.
In an introductory essay, guest editor Julia C. Blixrud, ARL Assistant Executive Director, Scholarly Communication, highlights the array of institutional, library, and author strategies now in use. She encourages the community to learn from the experiences of others as a way of identifying those strategies that have the best prospects for success in their own circumstances.
Other articles in the special issue are:
* Achieving Consensus on the University of Kansas Open-Access Policy
Ada Emmett, Associate Librarian for Scholarly Communications, University of Kansas; and Town Peterson, Distinguished Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Senior Curator, Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas
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