Academic Libraries as Scholarly Publishers
Abstract
Academic librarians have historically been the scholarly literature's collectors and preservers, its major purchasers and ultimate disseminators. What happens between author manuscript and ink (or, increasingly, pixels) on journal pages has rarely been our concern. The world is changing, however; to maintain acceptable levels of access in the face of unendurable serials price increases and shifts in how researchers communicate results to each other, we are moving (willingly or not) toward more and earlier intervention in the scholarly-publishing process.
Subject
open access
scholarly communication
libraries
scholarly publishing
Permanent Link
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/64386Description
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Citation
Salo, Dorothea. "Academic Libraries as Scholarly Publishers." In Rachel Singer Gordon ed. Information Tomorrow: Reflections on Technology and the Future of Public and Academic Libraries. Information Today, Inc. 2007.