2014 Charleston Library Conference

Graham Stone, University of Huddersfield & Jill Emery, Portland State University will co-present on ways librarians involved in collection development can build upon their skills to evolve their operational processes to handle scholarly content in a mostly OA scholarly world. based on the best practices crowdsourced with the OAWAL: open access workflows for academic librarians project, Graham and Jill will Librarians will present tips on how to identify and select appropriate OA material, manage budgets that may be based on article processing charges & memberships, workflows others have developed for collection processes, and have relevant and meaningful conversations with faculty and researchers in multiple disciplines on the support and development of open access content.