From: "Bargheer, Margo Friederike" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 01:36:32 +0100 Is there a role for libraries in an Open Access model funded at the production side, e.g. "author paid"? Indeed there is, it's done already, and this role has several aspects to it. Informing authors about this emerging market, supporting them in their new economic role, delivering bibliometrical data for evaluation systems based on publications (a system however that as a social scientist I see as flawed), managing central publication funds, negotiating agreements between publishers and institutions, running complementary infrastructure and so on. Best Margo Bargheer Electronic Publishing SUB Göttingen Margo Bargheer +49 1515 288 1644