Digital Librarians and the Challenges of Open Access to Knowledge: The Michael Okpara University of Agriculture (MOUAU) Library Experience

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TitleDigital Librarians and the Challenges of Open Access to Knowledge: The Michael Okpara University of Agriculture (MOUAU) Library Experience
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2012
AuthorsUzuegbu, Chimezie, and McAlbert, Faustinus U.
JournalLibrary Philosophy and Practice
Issue2003
AbstractThe development of Internet technology has provided academic and research institutions with a very high level of visibility on the web. As a result, teaching, learning and research is widely improved in the global society today. The intellectual call for knowledge and information dissemination by countless organizations and educational meetings has given birth to a terminology called open access. This initiative is aimed at bringing the knowledge society to a state of free access to all kinds of information and learning material using the Internet and ICT tools. The library plays an important role in sustaining the open access initiative (Das, 2008). Librarians who ensure the organization and dissemination of full-text content of knowledge materials to online communities are the digital librarians. This paper therefore examines the state of open access in MOUAU, discussing the challenges confronting the managers (digital librarians).
NotesThis article discussed challenges digital librirans faced when developing open access through a case study of MOUAU library. Therefore, to further extend library accessibility to the public, it should be important to digital librirans to improve professional knowledge and skills in open access, and convince people in managerial level, even the Internet service provider, to promote free access of resources to people across the society.
URLhttp://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphilprac/740