This volume, the second of two in the series Creating the 21st-century academic library that deals with the topic of open access in academic libraries, focuses on the implementation of open access in academic libraries. Chapters on the legalities and practicalities of open access in academic libraries address the issues associated with copyright, licensing, and intellectual property and include support for courses that require open access distribution of student work. The topic of library services in support of open access is explored, including the library's role in providing open educational resources, and as an ally and driver of their adoption, for example, by helping defray author fees that are required for open access articles. A detailed look at open access in the context of undergraduate research is provided and considers how librarians can engage undergraduates in conversations about open access. Chapters consider ways to engage undergraduate students in the use, understanding, evaluation, and creation of open access resources. Issues that are of concern to graduate students are also given some attention and central to these are the development of Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) programs. A chapter examines the library's role in balancing greater access to graduate student work with the consequences of openness, such as concerns about book contracts and sales, plagiarism, and changes in scholarly research and production. The book concludes with issues surrounding open data and library services in critical data librarianship, including advocacy, preservation, and instruction

This SPEC Kit explores how library roles are evolving as multimodal and collaborative scholarship become more visible in the research landscape and how the emergence of these newly identified roles influence the work of library staff. This study covers the types of support libraries offer researchers, how the individuals involved in digital scholarship activities are positioned within the library organization, their range of responsibilities, collaboration with partners inside and outside the library, how support for digital scholarship activities is funded, and how it is assessed, among other questions.

Survey results. Executive summary -- Survey questions and responses -- Responding institutions -- Representative documents. Library ACC/OER Webpages -- Institution ACC/OER Webpages -- ACC/OER educational events -- Incentive programs -- Adopted/adapted/created resources -- Job descriptions -- Selected resources.

Idealism and opportunism -- Grades, subject groups, and article volume -- Money matters -- Starting dates and the gold rush -- A closer look at subjects -- Sideshows and leftovers -- Dealing with OA journals -- Libraries and OA journals

By actively participating in the research and writing process, librarians can use their subject expertise to develop new roles for themselves and devise new modes of contributing to the scholarly communication cycle. This SPEC Kit explores ARL member libraries' activities related to support of faculty and researcher publishing of scholarly works. It investigates the level and variety of services ARL libraries are providing to support, facilitate, and participate in the publishing activities of the faculty and researchers they serve, whether through the re-framing of existing traditional library services or the development of new services. This SPEC Kit includes examples of publishing services offered by libraries, events that showcase faculty research and promote authors, author's rights information, library support for repository deposits and public access policy compliance, author addenda, open access policies, and job descriptions

Open access and development = El acceso abierto y el desarrollo / Lynne M. Rudasill -- Open access digital repositories from Latin America and the Caribbean as resources for social science libraries = Repositorios digitales de acceso abierto en América Latina y el Caribe como recursos para las bibliotecas de ciencias sociales / María E. Dorta-Duque and Dominique Babini -- The societal use of technology in the knowledge society : the Cuban experience = El uso social de la tecnología en la sociedad del conocimiento : la experiencia cubana / Iroel Sánchez -- The landscape of open access journals in Cuba : the strategy and model for its development = El panorama de las revistas de acceso abierto en Cuba : estrategia y modelo para su desarrollo / Ricardo Casate Fernández and José Antonio Senso Ruiz -- Repository for doctoral thesis from the national health system of Cuba = Repositorio de tesis doctorales para el sistema nacional de salud de Cuba / Dinorah Sánchez Remón and Nancy Sánchez Tarragó -- The repository of the Cuban press : a feasibility study for a new project = El repositorio de la prensa cubana : un proyecto en ciernes estudio de factibilidad / Lenay Barceló Soto and Liudmila Báez Sánchez -- The Interbanking Portal Web service of the Banking and Economics Information Center (CIBE) = El Portal Interbancario como servicio Web del Centro de Información Bancaria y Económica (CIBE) / Ascanio Alvarez Alvarez -- Socialization of knowledge : open access and proprietary = Socialización del conocimiento : acceso abierto y privativo / Raul G. Torricella Morales, Francisco Lee Tenorio and Jorge Luis Lopez Presmanes -- Information needs and research practices of graduate students in the master's in development practice program = Necesidades de información y prácticas de investigación de estudiantes graduados en el programa de master en practica del desarrollo / Liz Cooper and JoAnn Jacoby -- Using social media for open access : best practices for dissemination of digital information = Uso de medios de comunicación social para el acceso abierto : mejores prácticas para la difusión de la información digital / Tiffini A. Travis.

Libraries driving access to knowledge (A2K) / Ellen R. Tise -- Iceland goes digital : countrywide access to electronic resources / Ingibjörg Steinunn Sverrisdóttir and Þórdís T. Þórarinsdóttir -- "Access for all" and "politics of difference" : comparative case study of two European libraries / Rumyana Koycheva -- Using Web 2.0 to make libraries more user-oriented : outcomes from a case study at Loughborough University Library (UK) / Jenny Narborough, Ruth Stubbings, and Graham Walton -- OA to knowledge : perceptions of UWI researchers on the St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago / Marsha Winter and Stella Sandy -- Native language university digital textbook collection / Martin Hallik and Liisi Lembinen -- Balancing access to knowledge and respect for cultural knowledge : librarian advocacy with indigenous peoples' self-determination in access to knowledge / Loriene Roy, Kristen Hogan, and Spencer Lilley -- Access to knowledge as a social practice : information literacy education for MA students / Maria-Carme Torras i Calvo -- The discursive construction of the academic library as learning place in A2K / Catherine Closet-Crane -- A tale of two libraries : space and reading in Porto public libraries / Paula Sequeiros and Silvia Grünig -- University library premises : the evaluation of customer satisfaction and usage / Anne Lehto, Leena Toivonen, and Mirja Iivonen -- ILS vs. DBMS in Latin American Web OPACs : discriminant analysis applied to user interface / Elsa Barber, Silvia Pisano, Sandra Romagnoli, Verónica Parsiale, Gabriela de Pedro, Carolina Gregui, Nancy Blanco -- Open access and A2K : collaborative experiences in Latin America / Nancy Gómez and Paola C. Bongiovani -- The success story of a locally developed online video site : HKBUtube / Shun-han Rebekah Wong.

Web sites -- Addenda -- FAQs -- Flowcharts -- Handouts -- Letters to publishers -- Newsletter/blog -- Presentations -- Publisher policies -- Submission services

Scholarship and scholarly communication -- Scholarly journals -- Publishing : the scholarly mission, and the multi-billion-dollar industry -- Libraries and librarians -- Authors' rights and intellectual property -- Open access -- The economics of scholarly communications in transition -- Emerging trends and formats -- Summary and conclusions.

Why all academic research and scholarship should be made available in online open access archives, now! -- Judgment and responsibility in the wikipedia era -- IT, again, or, How to build an ethical institution -- Antipolitics and the Internet -- Hypercyberdemocracy.