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crln-9148	Walter, Scott	C&RL Spotlight	2014	2	.pdf	application/pdf	1194	35	45	In a recent essay posted to In the Library with a Lead Pipe, Micah Vandegrift and Chealsye Bowley proposed a new metric—the Journal Openness Index (JOI) Factor—designed to evaluate the degree to which a journal is open, “in terms of schol- arly communication practices like copyright assignment, journal policies for open access self-archiving, and open access publishing. The ACRL Plan for Excellence (www.ala.org /acrl/aboutacrl/strategicplan/stratplan) ar- ticulates a strategic commitment to “[acceler- ating] the transition to a more open system of scholarship,” and C&RL has been a concrete example of that commitment since we took our first step toward open access.	cache/crln-9148.pdf	txt/crln-9148.txt