Are We Ready to Pop the Champagne?

Presentation at the Open Access Symposium 2016: Open Access at the Tipping Point Conference in Denton, Texas on May 20, 2016UT Librarie

What is Your Clarion Call?

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Reimagining the Academic Library: Are We There Yet?

Presentation at TXLA, Texas Council of Academic Libraries 2016 in Austin, Texas on September 13, 2016.UT Librarie

I Hear the Train a Comin’

In each issue of Against the Grain, Greg Tananbaum\u27s Train column explores what is around the bend on the scholarly communications track. Lorraine Haricombe, Dean of Libraries at the University of Kansas and Chair of the Steering Committee for SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), and William Gunn, Head of Academic Outreach at Mendeley, engage in a lively discussion about the transformative issues information providers, publishers, and libraries will soon be contemplating. The session is conversational in nature. No PowerPoints, no canned speeches—just two insightful industry experts talking about access, the role of the library, the state of innovation in the scholarly communication space, and other important topics

The Nelson Memorandum: How two HELIOS members are responding

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Open Access 101: Access to Your Work and the Works You Need to Build on

This event is an RSVP pizza lunch for graduate student to learn more about the benefits of open access for them and for academe in general. Presenters: Lorraine Haricombe, Dean of KU Libraries; A. Townsend Peterson, Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Marc L. Greenberg, chair of KU's Slavic Languages & Literatures department; Marko Snoj, director of the Fran Ramovš Institute for Slovene Language of the Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Ljubljana, Slovenia; and Ada Emmett, Scholarly Communications program head, KU Libraries

Toward Open Access: it takes a village

This is the author final draft (post peer review), as permitted by publisher agreement. Published, closed- access version is available on the Taylor & Francis website for Library Administration journal.Academics and librarians have worked in tandem for many years to broaden access to the scholarship they create, scrutinize, collect, and consume. Recent developments have focused on campus faculty advocating for change by developing self-imposed open access policies. Such policy developments have occurred in an evolutionary process, the beginnings of which might be identified as the “serials crisis” peaking in the 1990’s, followed by the focus on efforts to examine and reform broken aspects of the system of scholarly communication, and most recently the feasibility of faculty-initiated open access policies on university campuses. This paper provides an analysis of one university’s ten year evolution to an open access policy focusing primarily on its advocates’ lessons learned and the library’s role in order to add the perspective of a public institution’s experience