The document discusses the role of Brazilian academic libraries in supporting research dissemination through open access. It presents a model of the scholarly communication process and how open access affects it. Academic librarians play a major role in the process through activities like metadata harvesting, dissemination, preservation, and providing information services and digital repositories. The University of Brasilia library system serves as an essential element of the scholarly communication system through its central library and campus libraries, supporting functions like archiving, conferences, and publishing of e-books and e-journals. The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) also supports this process through institutional repositories and e-learning object repositories.

1. Brazilian academic libraries and the PKP
support to research dissemination
A major project at the University of Brasilia, Brazil
Sely M S Costa
2nd PKP Conference
Vancouver, July 2009

2. Model of the Scholarly Communication Process
and Open Access effects

3. Open access, open archives and
librarians’ new roles
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• METADATA HARVESTING
Journal articles
Books
Conference proceedings
Learning objects
EDITORS LIBRARIANS

4. Disseminatio Preservation
n & Access &
Restauration
Selection &
Visibility Interchanging
& Impact
Information
Policies
Central Open access
Library & Authors
rights
University of
Brasilia’s Library
Information System
Campi 2, 3 & Units
4 Libraries
Other Units’ Information
Libraries Services &
Products
Digital
PRINTt
Data
Bases &
Research &
Collection Portals
Teaching
Development access
Repositories
Archiving
Users
Guidance e-Books &
Conference e-Journals
Organising Publishing

5. Where does PKP comes in
y
Information
Services &
Products
Digital
Data Bases
& Portals
access
Research &
Teaching
Repositories
Archiving
e-Books &
Institutional
Conference e-Journals
Repository Organising & Publishing
Proceedings
E-learning
Objects
Repository

6. Wrapping up
Academic librarians  major actors of
the scholarly communication process
&
University library  essential element of
the scholarly communication system.

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selmar@unb.br