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The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA)<\/a>\u00a0announces that its\u00a0Reference and User Services Quarterly<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(RUSQ<\/em>)<\/a>\u00a0journal will move to open access beginning with the Fall, 2017, issue.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>RUSQ\u00a0<\/em>disseminates information of interest to reference librarians, information specialists and other professionals involved in user-oriented library services. The decision to move\u00a0RUSQ\u00a0<\/em>from subscription based to open access was based on many factors, most notably the open access movement strongly supported by librarians. Other factors include ensuring a continued pool of strong authors and articles, ease of access for readers as well as broader worldwide access as the cost for professional journal subscriptions is extremely prohibitive.<\/span><\/p>\n RUSA represents librarians and library staff in the fields of reference, specialized reference, collection development, readers’ advisory and resource sharing. RUSA is the foremost organization of reference and information professionals who make the connections between people and the information sources, services and collection materials they need.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (via Melissa Tracy, American Library Association) The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA)\u00a0announces that its\u00a0Reference and User Services Quarterly\u00a0(RUSQ)\u00a0journal will move to open access beginning with the Fall, 2017, issue.\u00a0\u00a0RUSQ\u00a0disseminates information of interest to reference librarians, information specialists and other professionals involved in user-oriented library services. The decision to move\u00a0RUSQ\u00a0from subscription based to open access…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,18,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-association-of-college-and-research-libraries","category-library-associations-non-hsli","category-scholarly-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}