Redirecting Library Funds to Support OA
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UCL has produced a toolkit used to guide decision-making in redirtecting library funds to support OA.
"In order to make informed and data-driven decisions about which endeavors to pursue at scale, the UC Libraries analyzed the various approaches to or models for achieving open access, and the actionable strategies that exist to implement each approach.
This analysis, compiled in the Pathways to OA documents linked below, was endorsed by the UC Council of University Librarians (CoUL) on 27 February 2018. Pathways to OA will now assist campus libraries and the California Digital Library with individual and, where appropriate, collective decision-making about which OA strategies, possible next steps, or experiments to pursue in order to achieve large-scale transition to OA.
We also hope that other institutions considering ways to repurpose subscription spends may find the Pathways toolkit beneficial for their own decision-making.
- Pathways to OA: Executive Summary https://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/groups/files/about/docs/UC-Libraries-Pathways%20to%20OA-Executive%20Summary.pdf
- Pathways to OA: Full Report https://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/groups/files/about/docs/UC-Libraries-Pathways%20to%20OA-Report.pdf
- Pathways to OA: Chart https://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/groups/files/about/docs/UC-Libraries-Pathways%20to%20OA-Chart.pdf
UC Berkeley Library has also issued a release about the toolkit here: http://news.lib.berkeley.edu/pathways-to-open-access"