Comments on: Odds & Ends & Useful Bits http://acrlog.org/2009/06/05/odds-ends-useful-bits/ Blogging by and for academic and research librarians Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:32:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jodi Schneider http://acrlog.org/2009/06/05/odds-ends-useful-bits/comment-page-1/#comment-127431 Jodi Schneider Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:57:22 +0000 http://acrlog.org/?p=1645#comment-127431 I really appreciate C&RL preprints. Even though I'm an ALA member, I rarely want to dig up my password. Still, I want more! What would it take to make C&RL Gold open access this year? Let's have open access not just for preprints and postprints-but for the final version of the journal as well. I've just read the ACRL strategic priorities for 2009-13 (great priorities by the way). Opening up C&RL would support these priorities! Specifically #4: (Increasing recognition of the value of libraries and librarians by leaders in higher education, information technology, funding agencies and campus decision making.) And to a lesser extent, the first 3 strategic goals as well. Sharing our content, and going gold OA, would benefit ACRL. What benefits, if any, do we derive from locking up our content? Geoffrey Bilder recently pointed out (at SSP09) that "librarians and publishers are conspiring to annoy users". Let's be part of the solution! Let's stop conspiring to annoy ourselves (with those darned password walls). What would it take to make C&RL OA Gold this year? I really appreciate C&RL preprints. Even though I’m an ALA member, I rarely want to dig up my password. Still, I want more! What would it take to make C&RL Gold open access this year? Let’s have open access not just for preprints and postprints-but for the final version of the journal as well.

I’ve just read the ACRL strategic priorities for 2009-13 (great priorities by the way). Opening up C&RL would support these priorities! Specifically #4: (Increasing recognition of the value of libraries and librarians by leaders in higher education, information technology, funding agencies and campus decision making.) And to a lesser extent, the first 3 strategic goals as well. Sharing our content, and going gold OA, would benefit ACRL. What benefits, if any, do we derive from locking up our content?

Geoffrey Bilder recently pointed out (at SSP09) that “librarians and publishers are conspiring to annoy users”.

Let’s be part of the solution! Let’s stop conspiring to annoy ourselves (with those darned password walls). What would it take to make C&RL OA Gold this year?

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