Special Issue of Research Library Issues on Strategies for Opening Up Content

ARL has published a special issue of Research Library Issues on strategies for opening up content.

Here's an excerpt from the press release :

The special issue 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

• Improving Access with Open-Access Publishing Funds
  Greg Tananbaum, ScholarNext

• Model Language for Author Rights in Library Content Licenses
  Ivy Anderson, Director of Collections, California Digital Library, on behalf of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Author-Rights Language in Library Content Licenses

• Opening Up Content in HathiTrust: Using HathiTrust Permissions Agreements to Make Authors' Work Available
  Melissa Levine, Lead Copyright Officer, University of Michigan Library