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"Librarians have embraced the open access movement. They work to raise awareness of issuessurrounding scholarly communication, to educate faculty about authors’ rights, and to helpimplement and maintain institutional repositories (IRs). But for all of the research andcommentary from librarians about the importance of IRs and of making research freelyavailable, there still exists the glaring contradiction that few librarians and Library andInformation Science (LIS) authors provide free access to their own research publications."http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphilprac/1245Ergebnis:"While investigating a total of 1048 journal articles from the top 20 journals published in 2013,292 articles were found to be available openly from various sources. In other words, 27.86%articles from 20 closed access journals were open access articles."Eine berechtigte Frage:"We identified a good number of articles from the http://Academia.edu and Researchgate websiteswhich are platforms for faculty researchers to share their research with their peers. This againindicates that faculty researchers are willing to share their articles to collaborate and connectwith their colleagues, peers, and co-authors within their field. It also raised the question whyfaculty researchers are more comfortable sharing their research output within a social mediaplatform than within their own instutional repositories."Schlussfolgerung:"While providing access to information is librarians’ most critical duty and responsibility, thisarticle points to the discouraging fact that we as LIS authors have failed, whether through SRs,IRs, or personal websites, to make our own articles open access. Librarians and other types ofLIS authors have similar priorities to faculty authors in other disciplines. They are concernedwith publishing in journals acceptable for promotion and tenure and not with making theirarticles freely available. Even though according to SHERPA/RoMEo data that more than 76% ofpublishers allow some form of self-archiving, results from this study show that LIS authors donot see the importance of self-archiving their work."Die abschließendende Forderung nach universitätsweiten Mandaten ist völlig unbelegt!Mein klassischer Beitrag zum Thema (2006):http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/573860379