%0 Journal Article %A Toro Sánchez-Blanco, Pilar %A Juan-Quilis, Veronica %T The encouragement of the open access movement: an essential realm for health information professionals in the 21st century %D 2014 %@ 1841-0715 %U http://hdl.handle.net/10668/1780 %X According to the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Policy for libraries and the recommendations of the BOAI10,libraries and librarians have an important role to fulfil in the encouragement of open access. Taking into account theCompetencies for Information Professionals of the 21st Century, elaborated by the Special Libraries Association, andthe Librarians’ Competencies Profile for Scholarly Publishing and Open Access, we shall identify the competencies andnew areas of knowledge and expertise that have been involved in the process of the development and upkeep of ourinstitutional repository (Repositorio SSPA). %K Librarians %K Professional competence %K Access to information %K Library technical services %K Libraries, digital %~