2023 Electronic Resources & Libraries Annual Conference

The number of Open Access articles available in hybrid journals is increasing.  Yet limitations of link-resolvers makes discovering and linking to this content difficult.  This presentation will discuss how article level-intelligence helps libraries expand collections, improve discovery, and enable better access to Open Access articles in hybrid journals and more.

You’ve worked hard on your library’s special, distinctive, and primary source collections: you’ve cataloged them, digitized them, and shared them on your website. Are they being found by the scholars who need them for teaching and research?
Hear how libraries worldwide are partnering with JSTOR, a part of the non-profit ITHAKA, to make their collections openly accessible, bring greater visibility to their institution, and offer long-term preservation through Portico.
During this short talk, Bruce Heterick, Senior Vice President of Open Collections and Infrastructure, will highlight how scholars are accessing thousands of primary resources thanks to hundreds of charter libraries opening access to their special collections. Bruce will delve into qualitative and quantitative data on how partners are amplifying impact – and how you can, too. 

In this session, we’ll provide a brief history of the development and launch of the Subscribe to Open (S2O) open access funding model. We’ll highlight the impact that the program has had thus far. We’ll then provide an update on the progress of the expansion of the model to all review journals in 2023. We’ll also touch on the general reception and support the model has received thus far. Finally, we’ll provide a brief introduction and details about The Charleston Advisor, a well-known publication that we recently acquired, which provides product reviews of web-based resources for the library market.

This session will be available on-demand at the start of the conference. 
During this timeslot, the authors will be on the Online Conference Platform to answer text-based Q&A.

Western Libraries' Open Access Standing Committee recently revised our OA membership selection criteria with the aim of establishing a values based framework for OA assessment. This session describes how we retrospectively applied these criteria to existing OA investments, and how reflecting on the outcomes have helped us to reframe our approach to future decisions.

This session will be available on-demand at the start of the conference. 
During this timeslot, the authors will be on the Online Conference Platform to answer text-based Q&A.

OA book mandates are coming. COPIM will demonstrate how meeting these with Book Processing Charges will worsen inequality by favouring the most wealthy institutions and authors. We'll highlight an alternative: collective library funding models that spread the funding of OA books so that no single institution bears a disproportionate cost.