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University Library

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The University Library provides and promotes discovery tools, trusted informational resources, and information literacy skills as a vital campus partner in ensuring that the university will lead the world in advancing the land-grant ideals of putting science, technology and human creativity to work. In doing so, the Library equips faculty, staff and students to create, share and apply knowledge in addressing the challenges of the 21st century. The University Library features a collection of over 2.6 million volumes, with strengths in biological and physical sciences and technology.

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https://dr.lib.iastate.edu/handle/20.500.12876/99040

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Subscribe to Progress: Advancing Equity Through Openness

2021-08-16 , Brundy, Curtis , Steel, Ginny , University Library , Library Administration

A blog post about the Open Access business model Subscribe to Open (S2O).

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Trimming the Sails: What Libraries Need to Know about Transformative Agreements

2020 , Campbell, Colleen , Brundy, Curtis , University Library , Collections and Technical Services

In response to increasing demand for scholarly journals to transition from the subscription business model to open access, libraries and consortia are driving the next evolution in licensing by integrating open-access publishing into their agreements with scholarly publishers. These new license models, or Transformative Agreements, are, by nature, iterative, temporary, and transitional, but can all be characterized by their overarching objectives, underlying cost mechanisms that shift payments from subscriptions to publishing, and new workflow and metadata standards that are rapidly becoming standard business practice in scholarly publishing and library processes, ushering in operational readiness for a scholarly publishing system in which “open” is the default.

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The Open Transition Takes Center Stage

2021-11-16 , Lair, Sharla , Brundy, Curtis , University Library , Library Administration

A blog post about efforts to advance Open Science.

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Open Access to University Press Frontlists: A Call to Action

2023-09-20 , Brundy, Curtis , Hanscom, Laura , Kern, Barbara , Weinsteiger, Brigitte , University Library , Library Administration , Collections and Open Strategies

A blog post about Open Access publishing of scholarly monographs.

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Open Access Workflows for Academic Libraries

2024 , Goddard, Matthew W. , Brundy, Curtis , University Library , Collections and Technical Services

There is a growing acceptance of open access funding models among academic publishers, and a growing adoption of open access publishing agreements among academic libraries. In this context, libraries are taking on new roles and new processes to ensure the successful implementation of open access funding initiatives. This article will examine some of the key issues and considerations in the area of open access workflows, and discuss how one research-intensive library in the United States has approached these new functions.

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Implementing DORA – A Librarian’s Perspective

2019-08-21 , Brundy, Curtis , University Library , Library Administration , Collections and Technical Services

The Iowa State University Library is active in national and international efforts to transform scholarly communications and, in the process, to advance our own land-grant mission to share the knowledge Iowa State creates with Iowa and the rest of the world. Our library is recognized for its work around transformative open access agreements that enable our researchers’ articles to be published openly. We have invested heavily in green open access as well as in staffing and infrastructure to support the sharing of research data. And we work closely with our campus partners to ensure Iowa State faculty have access to the tools and support services they need to produce and disseminate research of the highest quality and with the highest impact...

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Building Community: Supporting Minoritized Scholars through Library Publishing and Open and Equitable Revenue Models

2024-01 , Inefuku, Harrison , Brundy, Curtis , Lair, Sharla , University Library , Collections and Technical Services

With the growth of open access (OA) journal publishing, a myriad of funding models has emerged to serve as an alternative to the traditional subscription model. Models that impose author facing charges are inequitable, favoring well-resourced authors and institutions, and continue the dominance of publications from the Global North. This exploratory study critically examines the current state of funding OA journal publishing and the disruptive role of library publishing programs. We conclude with a discussion of the potential of the LYRASIS Open Access Community Investment Program as a tool to support library publishing programs to sustainably fund inclusive OA journal publishing.

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