{"id":10686,"date":"2020-11-25T15:24:13","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T19:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=10686"},"modified":"2020-11-25T15:24:13","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T19:24:13","slug":"from-momentum-libraries-reaffirms-commitment-to-resource-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/2020\/11\/25\/from-momentum-libraries-reaffirms-commitment-to-resource-access\/","title":{"rendered":"From Momentum: Libraries Reaffirms Commitment to Resource Access"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article originally appeared<\/a> in Provost Akridge’s November 2020 edition of Momentum: A Web Letter from the Office of the Provost.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Having recently announced<\/a> that Purdue University and its regional campuses have entered negotiations with major for-profit academic publisher Elsevier, Libraries will prioritize broadening campus understanding of alternative means of accessing scholarly information, focusing on access over ownership. For the uninitiated, access over ownership means that, in the face of the rising cost of subscription resources, the necessity of stringent University budgets, and the growing demand for electronic resources over print, library systems like ours must redirect funds away from physically owning a wide breadth of scholarly information and focus instead on opportunities that expand timely access to articles, journals, and other materials, regardless of whether or not they are housed in Purdue University\u2019s collections.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur commitment to access over ownership is not directly tied to our relationship with Elsevier or any other publisher,\u201d said Beth McNeil, Dean of Libraries and Esther Ellis Norton Professor of Library Science. \u201cBut rather, an acknowledgement of a cultural, philosophical, and financial shift towards sustainable scholarship, which, in turn, does impact our priorities in terms of negotiating with publishers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Libraries is encouraging faculty, students, staff and researchers to begin exploring means of alternative access for the scholarly resources they need now. \u201cIn most instances, there is more than one way to find information,\u201d Dean McNeil said, \u201cbut most of us stop at whatever method is most familiar or convenient. Our goal is to assist campus so that everyone understands that sustainable methods of accessing information are not inherently more difficult, and that any extra effort is worth the payoff.\u201d<\/p>\n

New or rapidly expanding methods of attaining sustainable scholarly information include the use of free browser plug-ins like Unpaywall<\/a> to locate open access copies of articles. Faculty, staff, and student researchers can also search for open access copies using indexes\/repositories like Google Scholar<\/a>, PubMed Central<\/a>, SHARE<\/a>, arXiv<\/a>, and SSRN<\/a> to locate resources beyond Purdue\u2019s collections. They can request a copy directly from the author via social networking sites like Academia.edu<\/a> or by messaging the author on twitter. If full text is not available, article requests can be submitted through Interlibrary Loan (ILL)<\/a> where requests will be fulfilled as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbove all, we want campus to understand that this is a positive way forward,\u201d Dean McNeil said. \u201cYou will be able to access the information resources you need and Libraries will help you locate them. The path may change, but the destination remains the same.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This article originally appeared in Provost Akridge’s November 2020 edition of Momentum: A Web Letter from the Office of the Provost.\u00a0 Having recently announced that Purdue University and its regional campuses have entered negotiations with major for-profit academic publisher Elsevier, Libraries will prioritize broadening campus understanding of alternative means of accessing scholarly information, focusing on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[118,4828,13,4867,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collections","category-faculty_staff","category-general","category-open_access","category-press_release"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pT6ms-2Mm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10688,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10686\/revisions\/10688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}