Shrinking Budgets and Expanding OA: A Case Study of One Library’s Strategic Approach to Overhauling its Collections
Shrinking Budgets and Expanding OA: A Case Study of One Library’s Strategic Approach to Overhauling its Collections
Academic libraries have found themselves at the nexus of the OA paradigm shift during a time when they are facing increasing staffing and budgeting challenges. An R1 institution decided to take matters into their own hands to strategically analyze their collection and determine whether the research needs of their faculty and students could be served with an OA forward solution.