Open Access: What You Need to Know Now (ALA Editions: Special Reports)
Walt Crawford has done something difficult and useful. He's written a short, accurate, independent introduction to open access. I recommend it to researchers and libraries everywhere, and hope it corrects misunderstandings that have held back this good idea for years. --Peter Suber, Faculty Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University and Senior Researcher, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)"A first-rate introduction to OA. It should be required reading for all librarians so that they become familiar with the OA movement and can provide to anyone not just scholars widespread and unrestricted access to OA scholarly literature. With his insightful summary of this widening and complex field, Crawford offers a resource that will help readers gain a better understanding of what OA is and provide details regarding the issues and controversies surrounding the OA movement." --Internet Reference Services Quarterly