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The aims of the roundtable were to provide an international perspective on the likely impact of an open access future on librarians, to identify support and skills required for librarians in such a future, and to further current discussion on support for the library community from their institutions, publishers, funders and other parties.

"In recent years, publishers, librarians and academics have seized the opportunities offered by the electronic publication of scholarly journals. Despite the popularity of e-journals, however, content continues to be published, acquired and used in physical printed form. In the UK, we are still some way from a wholly electronic journal environment. This study is prompted by a concern from publishers and librarians that the retention of both printed and e-journal formats adds unnecessary costs throughout the supply chain from publisher to library to user. In view of the many advantages of electronic journals, this report sets out to understand the barriers to a move to e-only provision of scholarly journals in the UK, and to investigate what various players within the scholarly communications system could do in order to encourage such a move."

A blog by web librarians, named by LISNews as one of the librarian blogs to read in 2010 (see: http://lisnews.org/10_librarian_blogs_read_2010/)

Survey of science librarians at ARL member institutions

From a study conducted by Purdue University librarians, with respect to repository data collection of faculty output, identifying skill sets needed for the process.

From the abstract:" This article examines the MOOC phenomenon, identifying aspects that academic librarians should consider in the coming years, including how these courses interact with scholarly resources and library services. Methods for integrating library services in these courses are evaluated, with recommendations for the best course of action. "

A thoughful article on OA, its progress and implications, followed by an informative discussion from publishers, authors and librarians.

Experiences at EDUCAUSe, with emphasis on connecting with folks from different filed (e.g. non-librarians)

Describes a survey instrument to demonstrate the importance of knowlege management, information sharing and collaboration for librarians

"Much turmoil in the scholarly-communication ecosystem appears to revolve around simple ownership of intellectual property. Unpacking that notion, however, produces a fascinating tangle of stakeholders, desires, products and struggles. Some products of the research process, especially novel ones, are difficult to fit into legal concepts of ownership. As collaborative research burgeons, traditional ownership and authorship criteria are stretched to their limits and beyond, with many contributors still feeling short of due credit. The desire for access and impact brings institutions and grant funders into the formerly exclusive relationship between authors and publishers. Librarians, stripped of first-sale rights by electronic licensing, wonder about both access and long-term preservation. Emerging solutions to many of these difficulties threaten to cut publishers out of the picture altogether, perhaps a welcome change to those stakeholders who find publishers' behavior to block progress."

The aims of this study are to answer the following questions: * are social media impacting upon researcher workflows? * if so, how should publishers and librarians respond? * how influential are age and other factors in shaping the demand for social media?

"Objective: This paper describes three different institutional experiences in developing research data management programs and services, challenges/opportunities and lessons learned. Overview: This paper is based on the Librarian Panel Discussion during the 4th Annual University of Massachusetts and New England Region e-Science Symposium."