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Sunt bibliotecile sustenabile în noua lume a științei deschise?
Are libraries sustainable in the new open science world

Author(s): Ivona Olariu
Subject(s): Museology & Heritage Studies, Library and Information Science, Library operations and management, Electronic information storage and retrieval, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara
Keywords: open science; open access; electronic scientific literature; info-documentary resources; university library;

Summary/Abstract: The study regarding the behavior of researchers with respect to scientific literature analyses topics such as: the preference in obtaining electronic information, compared to the traditional way (printed), the preferred location when accessing electronic information (from within the university campus or from the outside), the type of preferred documents (book, scientific articles, conference proceedings etc), language preferences based on the user’s scientific profile. The respondents were invited to formulate requests of new services, for maximizing the effectiveness and efficiency of the digital documentation process, for increasing efficacy of access, search and refining of the information. We also investigated the knowledge stock regarding open science, Creative Commons licenses, article processing charge (APC), Plan S, the European regulations regarding open data, and continued with researching the acceptance level of switching from the pay-and-read model to the pay-and-publish model. Due to the fact that libraries are info-documentary entities directly involved in sustaining and promoting the new informational environment and the new publishing methods, the ways through which these objectives can be met were also analyzed, together with the roles of library and information science specialists in a world where terms such as online, electronic, digital define scientific documentation. The results of the study showed significant differences in the level of knowledge regarding the investigated concepts, as well as the need for involving university libraries in providing a suitable education for the acceptance of the new publishing methods.

  • Issue Year: IX/2022
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 208-242
  • Page Count: 35
  • Language: Romanian