[Oa-italia] Studio di ARL sul ruolo delle biblioteche nella pubblicazione riviste e monografie OA

[Paola Gargiulo]

ARL ha appena pubblicato uno studio sul ruolo delle biblioteche nella 
pubblicazione da parte di universita' di riviste e monografie, in gran parte 
con un modello Open access. Lo studio si basa su un'indagine effettuata tra 
le biblioteche associate ad ARL nella seconda' meta del 2007. 

Paola 

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Carla Hahn, Research Library Publishing Services:  New Options for 
University Publishing, ARL, March 2008.  Hahn is the Director of the ARL 
Office of Scholarly Communication.
http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/research-library-publishing-services.pdf 

Ecco qualche estratto dallo studio: 

    ...[I]n late 2007 the Association of Research Libraries surveyed its 
membership to gather data on the publishing services they were providing.... 

    The survey verified that research libraries are rapidly developing 
publishing services. By late 2007, 44% of the 80 responding ARL member 
libraries reported they were delivering publishing services and another 21% 
were in the process of planning publishing service development. Only 36% of 
responding institutions were not active in this arena. 

    These libraries are publishing many kinds of works, but the main focus 
is journals; 88% of publishing libraries reported publishing journals 
compared to 79% who publish conference papers and proceedings, and 71% who 
publish monographs.... 

    Libraries are making large contributions of organizational resources to 
support publishing service programs, so it is not surprising that a 
substantial portion of library publishing uses business models that enable 
open access or work toward such a model to best leverage those institutional 
investments. Subsidizing locally managed open access publishing is an 
alternative to subsidizing subscription models with inherent access 
restrictions. Libraries are avoiding the substantial overhead involved in 
subscription-based business models and traditional print runs....
fonti:
Blog di Peter Suber 4/03/2008
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html 

Blog DigitalKoans
http://www.escholarlypub.com/digitalkoans/2008/04/02/arl-publishes-research- 
library-publishing-services-new-options-for-university-publishing/