Open access to STM information : trends, models and strategies for libraries

Preface . . 7
Foreword . . 9
Committees . .  11
Creativity and Copyright: Introductory Thoughts . . 15

Best Practices and Management

How to Build an Institutional Repository? Practical Guide from a Special Library . . 19
Open Access and Academic Library Public Services: Roles for Reference and Instruction . . 29
Marketing Strategies for Increasing the Visibility of Scientific Research in the View of Open Access Principles . . 39
Managing Virtual Environments in Libraries: Second Life and Information Literacy . . 51

Open your Society

Academic Authors, Scientific Information and Open Access Publishing . . 63
Towards a New Technology for Science Online. Open Access Portals and Social Networking as a Source of Scientific Information . . 75
Open Access and Weh "? n Tonvergence: Information Foundation of the Future . . 83

Repository

An Institutional Repository Project as an Organizational Change Vision in IRTA . . 97
Enhancing Institutional Repositories (IR) in Ghana . . 105
Surabaya Memory: Opportunities and Challenges of Open Access e-Heritage Repositories . . 113
Developing a Repository: A Library's Journey . . 121

Journals

Open Access and Academic Libraries Journal Subscriptions . . 129
Copyright and Open Access Journals in Greece . . 137

Publications and Publishing

Open Access Collaborative Disciplinary Repositories - An Alternative Publishing Model . . 147

Services and Technology

ZS Project: Zoological Science Meets Institutional Repositories . . 157
Technology Trends, Requirements and Models for Providing Sustainable Technological Support for Libraries in an Evolving Environment . . 167
Mapping the Intellectual Structure of Open Access Field through Co-citations . . 177

Quality and Evaluation

Open Access Books Collection's Improvement According to Cost, User's Satisfaction and User's Demands . . 189