In response to the Open Access (OA) as Solving Problems chapter in Peter Subers book, it is interesting to note that although Ivy League libraries may not support current models for publishing scholarly information (including OA), they nonetheless continue to perpetuate them and lack creative ideas to improve them. Here’s something interesting that one of my professor’s (Jill Cirasella, Associate Librarian for Scholarly Communication) raised with regards to going beyond Open Access with Public Access. The statement from the IvyPlus libraries can be found here. Prof. Cirasella states that the IvyPlus response is a reaction to a federal memo about increasing public access to federally funded research. But she is critical of the fact that that there’s no plan in the memo for how public access will be achieved.