BC Electronic Library Network

The advent of policies at research-funding organizations requiring grantees to make their funded research openly accessible alters the life cycle of scholarly research. This survey-based study explores the ap-proaches that libraries and research administration offi ces at the major Canadian universities are employing to support the research-produc-tion cycle in an open access era and, in particular, to support research-er adherence to funder open-access requirements. Responses from 21 universities indicated that librarians feel a strong sense of mandate to carry out open access-related activities and provide research sup-ports, while research administrators have a lower sense of mandate and awareness and instead focus largely on assisting researchers with securing grant funding. Canadian research universities already con-tain infrastructure that could be leveraged to support open access, but maximizing these opportunities requires that research administration offi ces and university libraries work together more synergistically than they have done traditionally