Librarians' Role in Moving Articles from File Cabinets and Computers Into Harvard's Open-Access Repository

In an interview published in Harvard Library Notes, Stuart Shieber, the newly appointed Director of Harvard's Office for Scholarly Communication, discusses what’s next for Harvard's open-access repository and how librarians will play a significant role in the process. “[Librarians] can play a key role in getting individual faculty members to understand the importance of placing articles in the repository," says Shieber, because "they tend to be much more knowledgeable about these issues of the repositories and open access and the importance not only for mass distribution but for the faculty member him- or herself of making articles available with open access. So that connection with faculty provides a perfect venue to facilitate the process of moving articles from filing cabinets and computers in the faculty member’s office into the repository."  [RJ]