Library Publishing Toolkit e-book available as free download! <http://wp.me/p20y83-MW> I want to make sure to pass along items of interest that surfaced during my summer hiatus. For example, on August 1, 2013, the Press of the Information Delivery Services (IDS) Project, a resource-sharing cooperative of New York public and academic libraries, published an open access e-book entitled Library Publishing Toolkit, edited by Allison P. Brown, et al. (with a Forward by Walt Crawford). The 401 page book is available as a free download here (PDF). This book is a positive resource for those seriously inclined not to follow Dorothea Salo’s (satirical) advice in “How to Scuttle a Scholarly Communication Initiative” (that I referenced in my last post), and it falls in the same vein of several of my previous posts (such as here and here) covering the “library as publisher” movement. …
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