New brochure on OA focuses on faculty and researchers

SPARC, ARL, and ACRL have published a brochure on open access. From today's press release: "While the Create Change brochure is a general look at scholarly publishing challenges and options for faculty action, the new brochure presents the benefits of open access to authors, readers, teachers, scholars, and scientists. Facts and figures demonstrate how open access to scholarly research capitalizes on Internet connectivity to increase a research article's use and impact. The brochure also suggests steps authors of journal articles can take to provide open access to their work. For example, retaining rights to post their pre- or post-prints in institutional repositories can help ensure broad exposure for a scholar's research. Broader scale faculty actions include working towards their academic society's adoption of open access or helping to publish an open-access journal themselves....Both Open Access and Create Change can be purchased in bulk for US $12.50 per bundle of 50 brochures plus shipping and handling charges." There will soon be a printable PDF of the text online.

Correction. There is a printable PDF at the site.