The Open University: The University Library and the Shifting in the Scholarly Communication Paradigm
Abstract
The Central Library of the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU) focuses on watching changes in scholarly communication and brings new tools and services to support information sharing in the interdisciplinary university environment. All services are offered based on very close co-operation with the university management and faculty members.
Centralized processes and services and open access to information are the main aims of the CTU long-term development plan for 2012-2015. It is aimed at increasing efficiency and lowering the costs of information processes at CTU and thus increasing the competitiveness and prestige of its R&D in the national and international environment.
The Open University development has integrated the CTU Central Library into the institutional development plan and has assigned it the role of establishing and administering the institutional repository (IR) and co-ordinating all open access-related activities throughout the University.