Open Access and the Future of Scholarly Communication: Policy and Infrastructure

by Kevin L. Smith and Katherine A. Dickson

Book Overview

This volume of Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library looks closely at issues of policy and infrastructure for libraries that wish to provide leadership on their campus in the transition to more open forms of scholarship. The authors discuss how to make the case for open access on campus, as well as the political and policy implications of libraries that themselves want to become publishing entities.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442273011
• ISBN13: 9781442273016
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"