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Up From Under The “Open Access” Bus, Paul Royster

UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications

For most of the past seven years I had thought I was working to promote open access to academic scholarship and creative works. I helped place more than 40,000 articles and documents in a freely accessible repository, from which they could be (and were) browsed, downloaded, saved, printed, and linked to.

But I find now that these efforts failed to meet the standards of the open access advocates as represented by (among others) SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, a library membership organization formed and sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries. As was made excruciatingly clear at …

Scholarly Publishing In The U.S., Then And Now: A Brief History And Implications For The Future, Sue Ann Gardner

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Conference Presentations and Speeches

Slides for a presentation on the history of scholarly publishing in the United States and implications for the future of academic publishing. Covers book and journal publishing, publishing economics, and the opportunities and threats associated with publishing in the digital age.