But not as smart!

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If time permits, I'd really appreciate any and all who can complete this brief survey in the next couple of weeks to gather some librarians' thoughts, opinions, experiences, rants, and institutional policies on Open Access and their student-users.

Much library literature focuses on the pros and cons of OA and all its attendant hot-button issues, and while there is a great deal published concerning educating teaching faculty to the benefits of publishing in OA journals and creating institutional repositories, there hasn't been as much attention paid to on how, if at all, the word gets out to students.
Since most studies indicate that faculty familiarity with OA publishing is wide but not deep, one can assume simply by working the reference or serials desk that students' knowledge of what OA is rather scant. My research includes looking at how schools working behind the scenes with tools like their link resolvers, subject selectors, ERM's and Web committees and more in the public space of their Web pages to raise awareness and ease of access for students. Part of gauging where we're at will include the results from this brief survey.

Thanks in advance for taking the few minutes it'll take to do this survey.

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Regards, Ed

Edward Keane
Electronic Resources Librarian
Long Island University
Brooklyn Campus
ekeane@liu.edu