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The traditional process of scholarly communication librarians had been accompanied by librarians: they were present at the birth of articles, at providing the publications for users and even prepared relevant impact analyses. In the last 10 to 15 years scholarly publishing has undergone major transformation, and, as a consequence, librarians had to redefine their roles. As open-access (OA) information is available on the Internet, researchers nowadays apply alternative strategies in research and information seeking, and their new generation with rich IT experience has different needs. Researchers provide open access to their findings by publishing their articles in OA-journals, or depositing them with digital repositories. In addition to subject repositories institutional ones have recently appeared, and large providers (as Elsevier Scopus, and Scientific Commons) joined in too. Simultaneously new forms of peer review have gained ground. In case of OA-publishers the period of publishing has become shorter, and when assessing one's scholarly output OA literature is now increasingly included in citation analyses and impact studies. Libraries can contribute to co-ordinating the research work in their institutions by establishing databases of publications and/or institutional repositories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]