Transforming Research Libraries for the Global Knowledge Society

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Coming home: scholarly publishing returns to the university

Linda L. Phillips

Introduction

For more than two decades visionary university administrators and librarians have urged the scholarly community to recognize the value of its intellectual capital beyond promotion, tenure, and academic prominence. Scholarly communication support initiatives such as SPARC, Create Change, the Open Access movement, countless conferences, and university committees have drawn attention to the changing landscape of scholarly publishing in the global knowledge society.¹ Publishing in its broadest sense encompasses the production and dissemination of information for public access; scholarly publishing includes peer-reviewed literature in books and journals, ...