Toro Sánchez-Blanco, PilarJuan-Quilis, Veronica2014-12-182014-12-182014-12-13Toro-Sanchez-Blanco P, Juan-Quilis V. The encouragement of the open access movement: an essential realm for health information professionals in the 21st century. Journal of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries, 2014;10(4):6-91841-0715http://hdl.handle.net/10668/1780According 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 the Competencies for Information Professionals of the 21st Century, elaborated by the Special Libraries Association, and the Librarians’ Competencies Profile for Scholarly Publishing and Open Access, we shall identify the competencies and new areas of knowledge and expertise that have been involved in the process of the development and upkeep of our institutional repository (Repositorio SSPA).esLibrariansProfessional competenceAccess to informationLibrary technical servicesLibraries, digitalMedical Subject Headings::Named Groups::Persons::Occupational Groups::LibrariansMedical Subject Headings::Disciplines and Occupations::Education::Educational Measurement::Professional CompetenceMedical Subject Headings::Information Science::Information Science::Communication::Access to InformationMedical Subject Headings::Information Science::Information Science::Information Services::Library Technical ServicesMedical Subject Headings::Information Science::Information Science::Information Centers::Libraries::Libraries, Digitalresearch articleopen access