Abstract
This is the second in a series of commentaries from members of the Open Access Interest Group of Canadian Health Libraries Association / Association des bibliothe`ques (CHLA / ABSC). Devon Greyson’s inaugural contribution ‘‘Open access and health librarians in 2011’’ concluded with a timely discussion of open access (OA) opportunities for health librarians. Where Greyson concluded is exactly where this article begins by exploring the liaison role that the international OA movement presents. Also to be discussed are the quintessential resources for the Canadian health librarian’s OA knowledgebase or toolbox.
Highlights
This is the second in a series of commentaries from members of the Open Access Interest Group of Canadian Health Libraries Association / Association des bibliotheques (CHLA / ABSC)
The 1990s were an influential time for open access (OA) and witnessed The British Medical Journal (BMJ) take on pioneer status in biomedical OA publishing [1]
It was in 1998 that The BMJ established itself as ‘‘the first major general medical journal to provide free full text online access to its research articles, to deposit the full text in PubMed Central, and to allow authors to retain the copyright of their articles’’ [2]
Summary
In JCHLA’s last issue, Devon Greyson contributed a timely OA piece and the commentary concluded by acknowledging OA generated opportunities [6]. Ho and Lee’s 2010 article ‘‘Recognizing opportunities: Conversational openings to promote positive scholarly communication change’’ is incredibly practical and should be required reading for all librarians in a liaison position. One of their recommendations is to ‘‘Begin by asking your faculty and graduate students where they publish, how they raise the profile of their works, and what problems they are having in this realm. Opportunities already exist to promote OA, and it is up to us to take advantage of them This makes me think of my own work at Memorial University’s Health Sciences Library, where I recently took on a formal role promoting our OA initiatives to teaching faculty, graduate students, and other researchers.
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