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The transformation underway in scholarly communication touches everyone in the academy, including librarians. The burgeoning open access movement is opening alternative channels for the dissemination of scholarly work and feeding the growth of institutional repositories (IRs). While academics still prefer to publish their research in books and journals, they are disseminating their unpublished work more frequently through open-access, digital outlets. This work, often called "grey literature," includes conference presentations, technical reports, and preprints as well as datasets, supplements to published work, and electronic theses and dissertations. In this article, we examine how librarians are taking on different and expanded roles to bring new services and new forms of support to faculty members in this era of open access, making academic libraries more important and useful than ever before.

This panel reports on methodological innovation now underway as information behavior scholars begin to experiment with visual methods. The session launches with a succinct introduction to visual methods by Jenna Hartel

Ithaka S+R is a strategic consulting and research service provided by ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways. Ithaka S+R focuses on the transformation of scholarship and teaching in an online environment, with the goal of identifying the critical issues facing our community and acting as a catalyst for change. JSTOR, a research and learning platform, and Portico, a digital preservation service, are also part of ITHAKA.

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