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This opinion piece addresses ideas and philosophies for libraries to think about when investing collections funds. It discusses the current landscape of open access funded significantly by authors (via article processing charges (APCs)) or via library agreements to offset APCs, the continued dominance of legacy for-profit publishers and suggests some ways forward to influence change in the publishing landscape. Written with a Canadian lens, these recommendations will be relevant in other geographies as well, as the publishing landscape is global.

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Subject
Journals;
Bibliometrics;
Infrastructure;
Academic libraries;
Publishing industry;
Research funding;
Tenure;
Scholarly publishing;
Budgets;
Collection management;
Collection development;
Scholarly communication;
Open access;
Libraries;
Publishing;
Landscape;
Dominance;
Private sector
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Location
Canada
Title
Investing in open: Canadian challenges in bibliodiversity
Author
McLean, Jaclyn 1 ; Gibson, Ian 2 

1  Electronic Resources Librarian University of Saskatchewan Canada 
2  Acting Associate University Librarian, Research University of Guelph Canada 
Publication title
Insights; Newbury
Volume
38
Pages
1-6
Publication year
2025
Publication date
2025
Publisher
United Kingdom Serials Group (UKSG)
Place of publication
Newbury
Country of publication
United Kingdom
Publication subject
Library And Information Sciences
e-ISSN
20487754
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
Document type
Feature
ProQuest document ID
3187237126
Document URL
https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/investing-open-canadian-challenges/docview/3187237126/se-2?accountid=208611
Copyright
© 2025. This work is published under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.
Last updated
2025-11-14
Database
ProQuest One Academic