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    Preaching to the Choir?: How Academic Librarians Really Feel About Open Access
    (Electronic Resources & Libraries 2nd Annual Conference (Atlanta, Ga.), 2007-02) Palmer, Kristi L.; Dill, Emily
    This presentation will report on the results of a national survey of academic librarians opinions about open access. The authors will discuss what the findings tell us about librarians acceptance of the open access movement and how these attitudes might shape the future of scholarly communication initiatives in libraries.
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    Survey of Librarian Attitudes About Open Access
    (2007-07-17T19:04:41Z) Dill, Emily; Palmer, Kristi L.
    Presentation given at the Public Knowledge Project First Annual Conference, July 11-13, 2007, Vancouver, Canada. Revision of presentation entitled, "Preaching to the Choir?: How Academic Librarians Really Feel About Open Access"
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    Where There's a Will, There's a Way?: Survey of Academic Librarian Attitudes about Open Access
    (2008-11-17T16:06:48Z) Palmer, Kristi L.; Dill, Emily; Christie, Charlene
    Academic libraries are becoming increasingly involved in scholarly communication through work with institutional repositories and other open access models. While academic librarians are being encouraged to promote these new models, their opinions about open access have not been documented. This article reports on the results of a national survey conducted in the summer of 2006 of academic librarians’ attitudes toward open access principles and related behaviors. While attitude responses were largely positive, there were differences in levels of support related to respondents’ job descriptions and funding of open access activities. Surveyed librarians appear to be more comfortable with tasks that translate traditionally held responsibilities, such as educating others, to the open access environment. Most significant is the discrepancy between stated support of library involvement in open access initiatives and significantly lacking action toward this end. The results offer insight into how open access proponents may better focus their advocacy efforts. IS PREPRINT OF: Palmer, Kristi L., Emily Dill, and Charlene Christie. "Where There's a Will There's a Way," in College & Research Libraries. 70(4): 315‐330. DATASET AVAILABLE AT: http://hdl.handle.net/11243/7