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In the near future, national libraries could adopt new roles within the national research infrastructure, such as policy co-ordination, development of national and international interoperability standards, and improving the discovery of academic books, in addition to their traditional roles in ensuring long-term access and preservation. Equally, the complexity and resource-intensive nature of these changes, combined with the rising budgetary pressures faced by libraries, will mean that the future role of national libraries in scholarly ecosystems will depend on their capability to innovate and to transform their relationships with researchers, universities and research funders. This chapter considers some generic trends that might influence how national libraries engage with a growing debate about the future of academic books.
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Prominent UK examples include G. Crossick (2014) Monographs and Open Access: A Report to HEFCE, http://www.hefce.ac.uk/media/hefce/content/pubs/indirreports/2015/Monographs,and,open,access/2014_monographs.pdf, accessed 20 August 2015, and a collection of essays edited by Nigel Vincent and Chris Wickham (2013) Debating Open Access (London: British Academy).
M. Ware and M. Mabe (2015) The STM Report –- An Overview of Scientific and Scholarly Journal Publishing, 4th edn (STM, International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers).
J. Hagerlid (2011) ‘The Role of the National Library as a Catalyst for an Open Access Agenda: The Experience of Sweden’, Interlending and Document Supply, 39 (2): 115–18
B. Showers (2014) A National Monograph Strategy, http://monographs.jiscinvolve.org/wp/, accessed 10 September 2015.
E. Collins and G. Stone (2014) ‘Open Access Monographs and the Role of the Library’, Insights –- OA Monograph Supplement, 11–16.
RCUK (2015) ‘Unlocking the Future: Open Access Communication in a Global Research Environment’, RCUK website, http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/media/announcements/150527/, accessed 10 September 2015.
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Maricevic, M. (2016). National Libraries and Academic Books of the Future. In: Lyons, R.E., Rayner, S.J. (eds) The Academic Book of the Future. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137595775_8
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