VOLUME 70 NUMBER 5 Celebrating APLA and Open Access By Jennifer Richard As an APLA member you are probably aware that the by creating ERIC and PubMed. The National Agricul- CLA/APLA/NLLA APLA Bulletin will be going online in the fall, but you ture Library followed four years later with the creation Annual Conference ...............1-3, 5 may not realize that the Bulletin is also going open ac- of Agricola. In the late nineties, with shrinking library From the President’s Desk ...........4 cess (OA). During the APLA OGM in May 2007 the fol- budgets and rising journal costs, associations such Norman Horrocks Award ..............5 lowing motions were passed (unanimously): as the Association of Research Libraries launched the SPARC initiative to begin experimenting with differ- Tech To Try Today, Zotero .............6 Motion: It is moved that APLA support open access ent models of publishing. This time period gave rise Off the Shelf ...............................6 publishing, and begin with Volume 71 of the APLA bul- to online repositories and pre-print archives. Since Hackmatack ............................7-8 letin, to be open access. News from the 2000, the open access movement has exploded, with Motion: It is moved that APLA adopt a creative com- Provinces ........................9-14, 17 even for-profit publishers responding in various ways mons copyright statement with the first online issue, to St. Jerome’s Den ......................15 (such as granting permission to authors to self archive) replace the current copyright statement. Annual Reports ....................16-20 to the need and interest by researchers, faculty, stu- Interest Groups ....................20-21 Though the British Columbia Library Association (BCLA) dents and the library community. For a very detailed Notices of Motion ......................22 in 2004 was an early adopter of open access, APLA is timeline of the open access movement, please see New Members ..........................22 the second library association in the country to support Peter Suber’s Timeline of the Open Access Movement true open access publishing. This is a very important www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/timeline.htm. milestone, not only for our membership, but for the So what exactly is open access? Open-access library community in Canada. APLA has received con- (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, gratulatory notes from Deb Thomas, President of BCLA, and free of most copyright and licensing restric- Jennifer Knowlan, President of the Northwest Territories tions. (from Peter Suber’s Open Access Overview, at Library Association, Heather Morrison and even Peter www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm. Suber from the Open Access Forum. The main focus of the open access movement is on A Brief History and Description of Open Access peer-reviewed scholarly research, although it seems to The origins of the open access movement go back be broadening with the inclusion of association publica- over 40 years. Institutes such as the National Library tions and other types of repositories. of Education and the National Library of Health in the Open access is not black and white however; there United States began providing access to government can be varying levels of access an author or institution/ funded research in the areas of education and health continued on page 3 > THE ATLANTIC PROVINCES LIBRARY ASSOCIATION APLA BULLETIN SUMMER 2007 Publication Information The APLA Bulletin (ISSN 0001- APLA Executive 2006 – 2007 2203) is the official organ of the Atlantic Provinces Library PRESIDENT VICE PRESIDENT (NEW BRUNSWICK) Association. 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According to statements for the association. CLA has now ac- format which hopefully can become a revenue Heather Morrison from Simon Fraser University cepted many of the recommendations made by line to generate new opportunities and services there are two main approaches to open access: the taskforce, though it will still embargo the most for our membership. The cost savings in using our publishing (gold) and self-archiving (green). True current issue of Feliciter. CLA was also supportive own expertise to set up the Open Journal System open access gives full access to the entire pub- of the Evidence based Librarianship and Practice on APLA server is tremendous. A big thank you to lication immediately without cost to either the Journal through the Evidence based Librarianship Donald Moses, Stan Orlov, Ruth Cordes and the reader or the author. Delayed access involves Interest Group. The Partnership as a whole sup- Provincial Vice Presidents for all their work in the withholding certain materials – usually the most ports OA through its new broad appeal journal: development of our new and improved Bulletin! current issue in a journal type publication. There Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library and is also limited access, often provided through Information Practice and Research. Selected Open Access publisher’s websites. The Canadian Association of Research Libraries Resources Other issues that arise regarding the nature of (CARL) is heavily involved in the creation of insti- Open Access News open access publishing are the sustainability of tutional repositories and has developed the CARL open access publications without traditional sub- Harvester and the newly formed Alouette Canada www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html scription or user fees as well as the pros and cons will be a strong advocate for OA. Most recently, This comprehensive news source by Peter Suber of OA. These points were addressed by Heather the Synergies Project, received an eleven million highlights information from various websites and Morrison in the presentation