Editorial


 


Evidence Summary Theme: Open Access


 


Heather MacDonald


Associate Editor (Evidence Summaries)


Health and Biosciences Librarian 


Carleton University 


Ottawa, Ontario, Canada


Email: heather.macdonald@carleton.ca


 


 


 2024 MacDonald. This
is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons‐Attribution‐Noncommercial‐Share Alike License 4.0 International (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/),
which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium,
provided the original work is properly attributed, not used for commercial
purposes, and, if transformed, the resulting work is redistributed under the
same or similar license to this one.




 


 


DOI: 10.18438/eblip30665


 





 


Open
access is the focus of the evidence summaries in this issue. The benefits of
open access are familiar to many librarians. Making publicly funded research
openly accessible serves a common good by advancing discovery and innovation,
enhancing public welfare, providing an evidence base for sound policy, as well
as many other societal benefits (Canadian Association of Research Libraries,
2013).


 


We
have a short list of summaries this issue. The first article summarized
investigates librarians’ perspectives on their role in promoting open access
and the barriers and requirements for successful promotion. Next is a summary
of an article that explores faculty perspectives on and experiences with open
access and sharing of unpublished open content. The final evidence summary
looks at an article that showcases techniques for archiving open access
articles in an institutional repository. We hope these summaries provide useful
to librarians involved in, or simply interested in, open access endeavors. 


 


References


 


Canadian Association of Research
Libraries. (2013). CARL Position Statement on Open Access. https://www.carl-abrc.ca/doc/2013-07-18_CARL_Position_Statement_on_Open_Access.pdf