Proposals accepted for a monograph on Open Access Collection Management through the Technical Services Lens

Editors: Michelle Leonard and Susan Thomas

Contact: Michelle Leonard: mleonard@uflib.ufl.edu

Abstract: Open Access materials are important resources for scholarly research, and relevant to every discipline. These types of scholarly resources are becoming more prevalent when conducting research, and provide a richness of unique content, and offer different levels of content access. Open access materials are also tied to the open educational resources initiatives and are promoted for their accessibility and affordability for students. This book will describe a holistic approach on how to implement open access resources in library collections from the levels of open access, types of materials, access vs ownership, Fair Use and copyright.

Target Audience: librarians, collection managers, preservation librarians, catalogers, library managers, acquisitions librarians

Organization:

Chapters will have a linear progression within the technical services workflow that includes collections, acquisitions, cataloging, and preservation. All chapters will include how decisions are made, policies, tools for assessing quality of OAs, staff responsibilities, checklist(s) for workflow, case study or library example, opportunities and challenges, and further reading.

Chapter 1: History, description, types, and relevance of Open Access materials in library collections, including importance to researchers, scholars, and students.
Chapter 2: Collections: policies for selection/deselection, workflow for inclusion,

Chapter 3: Collections: OA and OER
Chapter 4: Acquisitions: vendors, OA, collection categories in the public facing catalog
promoting grey literature in the library collections, including institutional repositories

Chapter 5: Cataloging

Chapter 6: Preservation

Chapter 7: Marketing, branding and outreach: best communication practices to support OA materials in the collections. Communication techniques for colleagues, administrators, patrons. Examples to be provided.

Timeline:

March 25, 2020: call for proposals via listservs; invitations to authors at mid-winter; promotion of call at mid-winter.
April 30, 2020: proposals due; selection of authors; Zoom with authors for expectations, deadlines
May-September: write chapters
October-December: revisions
End of December: revisions due
January 31, 2021: finalize and send to ALCTS

Each chapter will be ~8-10 pages 4,000 to 5,000), covering the necessary components on the identified topic. Chapter topics may include:

Contributor requirements & timeline:

March: call for proposals via listservs; invitations to authors at mid-winter; promotion of call at mid-winter.
late-April: proposals due; selection of authors; Zoom with authors for expectations, deadlines
May-September: write chapters
October-December: revisions
End of December: revisions due
January 31, 2021: finalize and send to ALCTS

Each chapter will be 8-10 pages, 4,000 to 5,000 words), covering the necessary components on the identified topic.
The chapter title should reflect the content within the chapter. Titles should be short and not contain a subtitle. See www.ala.org/tools/author-guidelines for chapter preparation, including font size and formatting.
Tone: Avoid using the passive voice, past tense. Use the third person, and gender neutral pronouns. Authors must adhere to the Author Guide: www.ala.org/tools/author-guidelines
All chapters should use the Chicago Manual of Style (CMS), 17^th edition

Chapter topics may include:

Overview of OA materials: types of OA literature, examples, uses and relevance to the academic community

Policies for OA literature in library collections
Inclusion of OA literature in the collections – identifying, selecting/deselecting, case study/examples, tools for quality assessment
Acquisitions: vendors, challenges to acquire OA literature, case studies/examples
Cataloging: best practices, case studies/examples
Preservation/IR: of institutional materials, case studies/examples
Marketing/branding the OA literature in library collections: trends and future initiatives, case studies/examples

For chapter author(s), please provide:

A brief abstract and outline of contents identified above
Brief biographical statement including your experience relevant to the proposed chapter. Please limit biographical information to one paragraph (500-1,000 word count) and include your current position, one previous position, and any relevant experience related to the subject of the book.

Diversity and Inclusion: www.ala.org/tools/author-guidelines
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