Open access advocacy is high, despite pressures on librarians

Librarians are overwhelmingly recommending that their institution’s researchers should publish open access – despite the resultant extra costs and an increased workload. That is a key finding of a survey carried out by AIP Publishing, the not-for-profit publishing arm of the American Institute of Physics. 

This white paper is published against a background in which the scholarly communication industry is rapidly embracing open access; commercial and society publishers have in recent months and years completed many deals with library consortia, national research bodies and indeed groups of nations to provide more equitable agreements for institutions. There is strong evidence that transformative/read-and-publish agreements are driving strong growth in open access research content being published.

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