Scholarship by members of the Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) advances the field of library and information science, influences the practices of professions aligned with this field, and informs effective advocacy.
In support of transparency and increased access to library and information science scholarship globally, ELD encourages its members to: 1) publish in open access venues whenever possible; 2) submit their published research to institutional repositories or subject repositories, and 3) make openly accessible all products across the lifecycle of their scholarly and research activity, including articles, research data, monographs, presentations, digital scholarship, grant documentation, and grey literature. Authors should seek to retain rights to these products of scholarship and make them available for reuse under an appropriate license or guidelines such as FAIR principles.
When depositing scholarly products in a repository, ELD recommends using best practices for protecting sensitive data, determining the date on which deposited products become openly accessible and taking into account applicable institutional or funder policies and any other relevant considerations. ELD members should follow accepted citation principles for attribution, unique identification, and persistence for all scholarly products. ELD members who are editors, reviewers, authors, grantees, or digital scholars are encouraged to advocate for open models of creation and dissemination with publishers, funding agencies, and project or program managers.
*This ELD Open Access Statement is adapted from ACRL Policy Statement on Open Access to Scholarship by Academic Libraries and informed by the FAIR Principles.
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