Open Access and the Library

Open Access and the Library Edited by Anja Oberländer and Torsten Reimer Printed Edition of the Special Issue Published in Publications www.mdpi.com/journal/publications Open Access and the Library Open Access and the Library Special Issue Editors Anja Oberländer Torsten Reimer MDPI • Basel • Beijing • Wuhan • Barcelona • Belgrade Special Issue Editors Anja Oberlander¨ Torsten Reimer University of Konstanz British Library Germany UK Editorial Office MDPI St. Alban-Anlage 66 4052 Basel, Switzerland This is a reprint of articles from the Special Issue published online in the open access journal Publications (ISSN 2304-6775) from 2018 to 2019 (available at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ publications/special issues/open access university library) For citation purposes, cite each article independently as indicated on the article page online and as indicated below: LastName, A.A.; LastName, B.B.; LastName, C.C. Article Title. Journal Name Year, Article Number, Page Range. ISBN 978-3-03897-740-7 (Pbk) ISBN 978-3-03897-741-4 (PDF) Cover image courtesy of Torsten Reimer. c 2019 by the authors. Articles in this book are Open Access and distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which allows users to download, copy and build upon published articles, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. The book as a whole is distributed by MDPI under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND. Contents About the Special Issue Editors ..................................... vii Anja Oberländer and Torsten Reimer Open Access and the Library Reprinted from: Publications 2019, 7, 3, doi:10.3390/publications7010003 .............. 1 Megan Taylor and Kathrine S. H. Jensen Engaging and Supporting a University Press Scholarly Community Reprinted from: Publications 2018, 6, 13, doi:10.3390/publications6020013 .............. 3 Christine Antiope Daoutis and Maria de Montserrat Rodriguez-Marquez Library-Mediated Deposit: A Gift to Researchers or a Curse on Open Access? Reflections from the Case of Surrey Reprinted from: Publications 2018, 6, 20, doi:10.3390/publications6020020 .............. 11 David Walters and Christopher Daley Enhancing Institutional Publication Data Using Emergent Open Science Services Reprinted from: Publications 2018, 6, 23, doi:10.3390/publications6020023 .............. 21 Rosalyn Bass and Sarah Slowe Supporting Open Access at Kent—New Staff Roles Reprinted from: Publications 2018, 6, 17, doi:10.3390/publications6020017 .............. 38 Birgit Schmidt, Andrea Bertino, Daniel Beucke, Helene Brinken, Najko Jahn, Lisa Matthias, Julika Mimkes, Katharina Muller, ¨ Astrid Orth and Margo Bargheer Open Science Support as a Portfolio of Services and Projects: From Awareness to Engagement Reprinted from: Publications 2018, 6, 27, doi:10.3390/publications6020027 .............. 48 Irene Barbers, Nadja Kalinna, Bernhard Mittermaier Data-Driven Transition: Joint Reporting of Subscription Expenditure and Publication Costs Reprinted from: Publications 2018, 6, 19, doi:10.3390/publications6020019 .............. 67 Thomas Arndt and Claudia Frick Getting Scientists Ready for Open Access: The Approaches of Forschungszentrum Julich¨ Reprinted from: Publications 2018, 6, 24, doi:10.3390/publications6020024 .............. 82 Alexander Kohls and Salvatore Mele Converting the Literature of a Scientific Field to Open Access through Global Collaboration: The Experience of SCOAP3 in Particle Physics Reprinted from: Publications 2018, 6, 15, doi:10.3390/publications6020015 .............. 97 Karin Langenkamp, Bodo Rödel, Kerstin Taufenbach and Meike Weiland Open Access in Vocational Education and Training Research Reprinted from: Publications 2018, 6, 29, doi:10.3390/publications6030029 ..............107 Jorge Revez Opening the Heart of Science: A Review of the Changing Roles of Research Libraries Reprinted from: Publications 2018, 6, 9, doi:10.3390/publications6010009 ..............119 v About the Special Issue Editors Anja Oberländer, Dr., is Head of Open Science at the Communication, Information, Media Centre at the University of Konstanz in Germany. In this role, she is responsible for all services, activities, and projects regarding Open Access and Research Data at the University of Konstanz. Since 2007, she coordinates open-access.net, the central German-speaking information platform on open access, and is also leading the program committee of the main German-speaking open access conference “Open-Access-Tage”. She is a very active member of the German and European open access community and a member of several working groups at state (OA-Baden-Wurttemberg),¨ national (DINI-AG-Epub) and European levels (YERUN Working group on open science). At the University of Konstanz, she is responsible for several third party-funded projects like OpenAIRE (EU), OJS.de (DFG), OA-FWM, and OLH-DE (BMBF), as well as for the publication fund by the DFG. She is also very active in supporting alternative open access models and initiatives like FAIR OA and the Open Library of Humanities. Anja holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Wuppertal. Torsten Reimer, Dr., is Head of Research Services at the British Library and the lead for ‘Everything Available’, one of the Library’s five strategic change management portfolios. In this role, Torsten is responsible for developing the Library’s contemporary collections and services for research. This includes both online and onsite services, as well as those aimed at other research and knowledge organizations. A key element of Torsten’s work is to formulate the UK’s national library’s response to the ongoing changes in the scholarly communications environment, in particular open access and open research. This remit builds on previous work experience, for example at Imperial College London, where Torsten was responsible for developing open science services and strategy, working with international stakeholders. He is a member of relevant sector groups, such as the Universities UK Open Access Coordination Group, and the founder of the London Open Access Network. Previously, Torsten managed national research infrastructure programs for Jisc, the UK’s digital service provider for higher and further education, and worked at King’s College London, the University of Munich, and the Bavarian State Library in roles relating to digital scholarship and scholarly communications. Torsten holds a PhD in modern history from the University of Munich and is a fellow of SSI, the UK’s Software Sustainability Institute.” vii publications Editorial Open Access and the Library Anja Oberländer 1 and Torsten Reimer 2,* 1 Head of Open Science at the University of Konstanz, Universitaetsstrasse 10, 78457 Konstanz, Germany; [email protected] 2 Head of Research Services at the British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB, UK * Correspondence: [email protected] Received: 24 December 2018; Accepted: 7 January 2019; Published: 9 January 2019 Libraries are places of learning and knowledge creation. While this mission has been the same for centuries, the way it is delivered is constantly evolving. Over the last two decades, digital technology—and the changes that came with it—have accelerated this transformation to a point where evolution starts to become a revolution. The wider Open Science movement, and Open Access in particular, is one of these changes, and it is already having a profound impact. Under the subscription model, the role of libraries was to buy or license content on behalf of their users and then act as gatekeepers to regulate access on behalf of rights holders. In a world where all research is open, the role of the library is shifting from licensing and disseminating to facilitating and supporting the publishing process itself. This requires a fundamental shift in terms of structures, tasks and skills. It also changes the idea of a library’s collection. Under the subscription model, contemporary collections largely equal content bought from publishers. Under an open model, the collection is more likely to be the content created by the users of the library (researchers, staff, students etc.), content that is now curated by the library. Instead of selecting external content, libraries have to understand the content created by their own users and help them to make it publicly available— be it through a local repository, payment of article processing charges or through advice and guidance. Arguably this is an overly simplified model and it leaves aside special collections and other areas. Even so, it highlights the changes that research libraries are undergoing, changes that are likely to accelerate due to initiatives like Plan S. This special issue investigates some of the changes in today’s library services that relate to open access. The shift of focus from procuring scholarly content to becoming a partner in creation and dissemination is shown in an article by Taylor and Jensen. They show how the University of Huddersfield has developed an open University Press to meet the increasing demand for demonstrating research impact [1]. Dealing with the problem that many researchers are in favor of open access but do not deposit in repositories due to various reasons, Daoutis and Montserrat Rodriguez-Marquez discuss the benefits of a mediated deposit approach, such as the one used by the University of Surrey [2]. An article by Walters and Daley shows how data from open science services can be used

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