Impact of Open Access on Library Collections and Collection Development Services: With a Case Study of OA From the University of Namibia

Impact of Open Access on Library Collections and Collection Development Services: With a Case Study of OA From the University of Namibia

Karen Renae Harker, Katharina Shitoka Ngandu, Anna Leonard
ISBN13: 9781799898054|ISBN10: 1799898059|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799898061|EISBN13: 9781799898078
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-9805-4.ch012
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Harker, Karen Renae, et al. "Impact of Open Access on Library Collections and Collection Development Services: With a Case Study of OA From the University of Namibia." Handbook of Research on the Global View of Open Access and Scholarly Communications, edited by Daniel Gelaw Alemneh, IGI Global, 2022, pp. 237-265. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-9805-4.ch012

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Harker, K. R., Ngandu, K. S., & Leonard, A. (2022). Impact of Open Access on Library Collections and Collection Development Services: With a Case Study of OA From the University of Namibia. In D. Alemneh (Ed.), Handbook of Research on the Global View of Open Access and Scholarly Communications (pp. 237-265). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-9805-4.ch012

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Harker, Karen Renae, Katharina Shitoka Ngandu, and Anna Leonard. "Impact of Open Access on Library Collections and Collection Development Services: With a Case Study of OA From the University of Namibia." In Handbook of Research on the Global View of Open Access and Scholarly Communications, edited by Daniel Gelaw Alemneh, 237-265. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-9805-4.ch012

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Abstract

The growth of open access (OA) journals has been rapid and substantial. While still not the predominant form of journal publishing, OA journals of varying types have impacted the scholarly communication ecosystem in a profound way. Libraries and librarians have been at the front lines of this effort from the beginning, working with researchers, funders, and institutional administrators to bring out substantive change to the unsustainable models of costly dissemination of research. After over 20 years of progress in both the transition from print to online, as well as opening access to read, how have OA resources fit in with academic libraries' collections? Are OA resources currently considered part of a library's collection? If not, will they ever be? More broadly, what has been the impact of the open access movement and OA resources on library collections, the concept of library collections, and the practice of collection development? How has the impact of OA on collections differed between libraries in the Global North vs. the Global South?