In an increasingly complex and global open access publishing landscape, collaboration among stakeholder groups is more urgent than ever. Through storytelling and network visualizations, this poster will reveal how the transformation of scholarly communication requires bringing together individuals with expertise in publishing, licensing, information technology, metadata, digital preservation, and marketing as well as research, teaching, and learning. All libraries and library workers have meaningful opportunities to engage in various ways with open access. From our vantage point at a nonprofit membership organization, we contend that radical interdependence lies at the heart of the strategic collaborations needed to advance open access. Our partnerships with libraries of all types and sizes, publishers of all sorts, and library consortia around the world have surfaced many inspiring examples of radical interdependence in action. All too often, those examples are invisible to stakeholders beyond those directly involved. By visualizing interconnections and sharing stories in this poster, we seek to facilitate discussion on how all library workers and other stakeholders can work together more effectively to fulfill the promises of the open access movement.
