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If yes, please briefly explain the difference.
Selected Comments from Respondents
“For OA documents in our institutional repository, our Digital Initiatives staff notify the library of new
electronic theses and dissertations, new collections of other documents, or updates in the number of items
available.”
“Generally, we would not, but as this is something new to researchers, we have a larger awareness campaign
to undertake. Researchers have questions about author fees, etc. which we need to explain. Promotion then
focuses on some of the unique issues with OA resources and why the library supports these resources.”
“Highlight in newsletters.”
“In larger context of scholarly communication issues.”
“In sense that we promote in communications with faculty and grad students about scholarly communication
issues we don’t promote differently in terms of resource usage.”
“Locally digitized collections (state docs and cultural heritage materials) promoted through conference
presentations, press releases, posters, etc.”
“OA resources get much less attention when it comes to marketing. We are having a hard time reaching our
patrons with the promotion of paid resources. We just have not put much effort into promoting OA resources.”
“Resources that are paid for tend to get higher level of ‘press.’”
“There tends to be less emphasis on OA resources than on purchased e-resources. OA is of lower priority to
promote as a whole. However, if a valuable resource in a field of study happened to be OA, there would be no
hesitancy in promoting and providing access.”
“These are targeted for examples of changes in Scholarly Communication model.”
“We have a robust Scholarly Communications outreach program. The promotion of OA resources and
publishing alternatives is key to our Scholarly Communication education plan.”
“We do promote our institutional repository more aggressively than other OA resources.”
“We have a Web page that indicates discounts available to faculty to support publication in author pays type
open access resources. As part of our promotion of UC eScholarship, we discuss opportunities for establishing
new open-access journals with faculty who are interested.”
“We have promoted DOAJ and PLos as scholarly publishing models for the common good of the academic
community and models with high potential for sustainability.”
“We promote our online journal application—a modification of the open source OJS system—as a service
provided by the libraries’ repository.”
“We tend to more heavily promote resources for which the library has paid.”
“Yes, they are featured in campus-wide newsletters.”
If yes, please briefly explain the difference.
Selected Comments from Respondents
“For OA documents in our institutional repository, our Digital Initiatives staff notify the library of new
electronic theses and dissertations, new collections of other documents, or updates in the number of items
available.”
“Generally, we would not, but as this is something new to researchers, we have a larger awareness campaign
to undertake. Researchers have questions about author fees, etc. which we need to explain. Promotion then
focuses on some of the unique issues with OA resources and why the library supports these resources.”
“Highlight in newsletters.”
“In larger context of scholarly communication issues.”
“In sense that we promote in communications with faculty and grad students about scholarly communication
issues we don’t promote differently in terms of resource usage.”
“Locally digitized collections (state docs and cultural heritage materials) promoted through conference
presentations, press releases, posters, etc.”
“OA resources get much less attention when it comes to marketing. We are having a hard time reaching our
patrons with the promotion of paid resources. We just have not put much effort into promoting OA resources.”
“Resources that are paid for tend to get higher level of ‘press.’”
“There tends to be less emphasis on OA resources than on purchased e-resources. OA is of lower priority to
promote as a whole. However, if a valuable resource in a field of study happened to be OA, there would be no
hesitancy in promoting and providing access.”
“These are targeted for examples of changes in Scholarly Communication model.”
“We have a robust Scholarly Communications outreach program. The promotion of OA resources and
publishing alternatives is key to our Scholarly Communication education plan.”
“We do promote our institutional repository more aggressively than other OA resources.”
“We have a Web page that indicates discounts available to faculty to support publication in author pays type
open access resources. As part of our promotion of UC eScholarship, we discuss opportunities for establishing
new open-access journals with faculty who are interested.”
“We have promoted DOAJ and PLos as scholarly publishing models for the common good of the academic
community and models with high potential for sustainability.”
“We promote our online journal application—a modification of the open source OJS system—as a service
provided by the libraries’ repository.”
“We tend to more heavily promote resources for which the library has paid.”
“Yes, they are featured in campus-wide newsletters.”
