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Scholarly Communication

2014

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Open access publishing

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Libraries And Faculty Partnering To Advance Scholarly Communication, Marilyn S. Billings Mar 2014

Libraries And Faculty Partnering To Advance Scholarly Communication, Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

Since the 1990s serials crisis brought a struggle for university libraries to keep up with the escalating cost increases to maintain collections of scholarly materials, libraries have been exploring new models of scholarly communication. This presentation will discuss open access journals as one of these new models and examine trends in open access mandates, data management plans for scholarly research and new alternative metrics.