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

Informationen zum Autor Kevin L. Smith is the Dean of Libraries at the University of Kansas, and was previously the Director of Copyright & Scholarly Communications at Duke University. A lawyer as well as a librarian, Kevin has spent a decade advising university students, faculty, and staff about copyright, licensing and scholarly publishing. He is a prolific writer on these topics, and his book Owning and Using Scholarship: An IP Handbook for Teachers and Researchers was published by the Association of College and Research Libraries in 2014.Katherine A. Dickson is a recent graduate of the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While in library school, she worked at Duke University's Office of Copyright & Scholarly Communications, where she negotiated issues of fair use and sought permissions in order to facilitate online education classes. Prior to attending library school, she was a practicing attorney for seven years, first in Washington, D.C. and then in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. In addition to her M.L.S. and J.D., Kate holds a Master's degree in American legal history from the University of Virginia. Klappentext 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.

Product details

• Authors: Katherine A. Dickson, Dickson Katherine A., Smith, Kevin L. Smith, Kevin L. Dickson Smith, Kevin L./ Dickson Smith, Smith Kevin L.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2016
• EAN: 9781442273023
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-7302-3
• No. of pages: 318
• Series: Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system; Library and information services, Library, archive and information management, Library, Archive & Information Management, Academic & specialist libraries