The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has teamed up with publisher Taylor & Francis to produce the first open access (OA) issue of the New Review of Academic Librarianship, edited by Graham Walton from Loughborough University. The special issue on 'dissemination models in scholarly communication' is guest edited by Hazel Woodward, university librarian and director of Cranfield University Press.
The journal contains a longitudinal study on how different disciplines view OA and highlights major differences between disciplines in terms of motivation and how they understand OA. There are seemingly different perspectives on OA textbooks - a publisher is looking at a different business model while a contribution from the Netherlands examines the attitude of librarians towards OA publishing for text books. The role of the library is changing to support scholarly communications and a paper from Griffiths University in Australia describes how the entire library structure has been changed to reflect the research lifecycle.
The launch coincides with the Open Access Week being held from October 18-24.
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