Open access provides free online access to scholarly literature through self-archiving in repositories or publishing in open access journals. It is important for librarians to understand open access as it becomes more prevalent, as it promotes global sharing of research. Librarians can help by educating others about open access, submitting their own work to open access publications and repositories, and advocating for open access options.

1. Open Access for Librarians:
What, Why, and How?
Karin Dalziel
karin@dalziel.org
www.nirak.net

2. Librarians need to be
informed of open access
publishing methods and
ideology because it is
becoming an increasing
force in scholarly literature.

3. What is Open Access?

4. Open access (OA) means
immediate, free and unrestricted
online access to digital scholarly
material, primarily peer-reviewed
research articles in scholarly
journals. OA was made possible by
the advent of the Internet.
(Wikipedia)

5. There are two types of open access:
Self-archiving, and open access journals.

6. Why Open Access?

7. Not everyone has access.
This may be because of money or location.

8. Open access enables global
communication and collaboration.

9. Open access might keep
prices and permissions reasonable

10. How can librarians help?

11. Talk about it.

12. Submit to open access journals and
repositories.

13. Publish

14. Publish

15. Publish

16. Open Access for Librarians:
What, Why, and How?
Karin Dalziel
karin@dalziel.org
www.nirak.net