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November 25, 2007
Students and Scholarly Communications
Gavin Baker, scholarly communications consultant with Baker Open Strategies, LLC, outlines several ways that students make use of the scholarly communications system, primarily through journal use. He also discusses the growing involvement of students in the serials crisis and how librarians can more effectively involve this group in open access and scholarly communications issues.
Since 2003, students have been taking a more active role in the scholarly communications issues. There has been a growing involvement of student government organizations in the serials crisis. At least one group has made an official statement supporting open access.
Although student organizations have less influence than faculty members in this area, it is important for librarians to recognize this group when seeking out allies for open access support. It is also important that librarians present open access to students when introducing library services and not solely focus on library-purchased materials such as electronic journal articles.
SPARC as an organization is also enhancing its outreach to this group. They are promoting open access through campaigns and video contests intended to target students.
For more information, please see the full article, Baker, Gavin. "Student Activism: How Students Use the Scholarly Communications System." C&RL News, Vol. 68, No. 10, November 2007.
-posted by Annie Powell
Posted by colldev at November 25, 2007 12:08 PM