Purpose: This paper will describe outreach efforts to faculty to promote open access models of publishing
Brief Description: The current crisis in journal publishing--wildly escalating prices, combined with economic downturn and strapped budgets--has left libraries searching for ways to survive and continue to provide comprehensive scholarly resources to their campus communities. Over the past several years, alternatives to traditional publishing have emerged. This paper will focus on several avenues used by our library to promote and provide alternative publishing models to the campus. It will discuss institutional licensing of BioMed Central and Faculty of 1000, the eScholarship initiative, and the Public Library of Science. A series of scientific publishing symposiums have been organized that focus on new models for scholarly communication. These provide a forum for faculty who are on open access editorial boards or who have published in open access journals to discuss their viewpoints and experiences with other faculty. The library is also developing Web pages that outline many of these issues and provide information and links to a variety of alternative publishing models. Marketing strategies and publicity streams will also be discussed.
Evaluation Method: Library staff will monitor use of open access journals and track faculty who publish in these journals.