The Atlanta University Center (AUC) Woodruff Library is committed to providing our faculty, staff and students the access to the "highest level of information resources" required to support their teaching, learning, and research needs. In order to meet the needs of our AUC community, the library must balance ownership and access. Both strategies are affected by the changing landscape of scholarly communication.
Open access is the ability to distribute and access scholarly research without restriction. Scholarly communication or, the ability to produce, distribute, provide access and preserve scholarly output within the academic community has been impacted by factors which include:
For the Atlanta University Center community the library must assist in fostering an environment in which its primary users are familiar, engaged and enjoined in efforts to create a sustainable research marketplace. A sustainable research marketplace ensures that the scholarly output of Atlanta University Center faculty and researchers remains accessible without limitation of cost to create, disseminate and/or access.
The AUC Woodruff Library would like to recognize our AUC faculty who have published open access journal articles and/or developed open access resources. During the academic year, the Library's Academic Alert will often feature a profile of each open access scholar.
Items which have been archived in institutional repositories such as AUC Woodruff Library’s RADAR (Repository of AUC Digital collections, Archives, and Research) enhance exposure to the research efforts of AUC faculty and students. For example, the full-text download statistics for open access journals currently on the repository are as follows:
1. Communication & Social Change
2. Communications Arts Forum
3. Endarch
To support and promote the Scholarly Communications/Open Access agenda as facilitated by the library on behalf of the Library Advisory Council (LAC). This working group will develop an agenda for action, evaluate such action and serve as a liaison to the LAC and other groups that may be identified within the Atlanta University Center. The members of the working group are:
Members of the working group can respond to your questions regarding scholarly communication, open access, and copyright. You may email a member directly or send your question to scholcomm@auctr.edu .
