Abstract The current mechanisms by which scholars and their work are evaluated across higher education unsustainable and, we argue, increasingly corrosive. Relying on a limited set of proxy measures, systems evaluation fail to recognize reward the many dependencies upon healthy scholarly ecosystem relies. Drawing HuMetricsHSS Initiative, this essay argues that aligning values with practices, recognizing vital processes enrich produced, grounding our indicators quality in degree academy live...

Increasing library involvement in journal hosting and publishing is an important topic for serialists. This installment of “The Balance Point” column presents articles that offer descriptions analyses the current state ideas activities related to libraries as publishers. Featured authors discuss tasks can perform, programs hosting, titles hosted, challenges, next steps benefits or drawbacks foreseen paths they represent.

Institutional repositories (IRs) have a conflicted history in terms of purpose. Although always closely associated with the open access movement, particular to published research through self-archiving (“Green” OA), an approach long championed by Stevan Harnad (e.g., Harnad, 1999) and others, some most influential visionary early essays on IRs speak them as providing infrastructure for stewardship wide range institutional output (Lynch, 2003) new way libraries support publishing functions...

Key points Scholarly communication – with the exception of traditional (e.g. blind and double‐blind) peer review prizes open exchange ideas. The aim should be engagement, not judgement. Reviews that improve quality a work thus advance field are merely service to community, but contributions existing scholarship, need rewarded accordingly; an transparent process is first step in enabling such reviews properly recognized.

Increasing library involvement in journal hosting and publishing is an important topic for serialists. This installment of "The Balance Point" column presents articles that offer descriptions analyses the current state ideas activities related to libraries as publishers. Featured authors discuss tasks can perform, programs hosting, titles hosted, challenges, next steps benefits or drawbacks foreseen paths they represent.

ABSTRACT The proposal we offer here (and in the more extensive ‘white paper’ on which this article is based) tackles head‐on open access (OA) business models that have proven particularly problematic for implementation of OA humanities and social sciences (HSS). Our suggests all tertiary institutions contribute to systemic support research process itself, including its entire scholarly output. A bold rethinking economics by way partnerships among societies academic libraries funded an...

This essay traces how Neni Panourgiá, Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University, Fordham University Press and the Center for Digital Research Scholarship worked together to produce an online book that strives not replace but augment printed it accompanies. The 'synaesthetic' reading experience provided by enables readers more fully author's rich fieldwork materials customize their own various texts make up book, thereby gaining a better sense multiple levels anthropological analysis....

White paper describing proposal for collective institutional funding of open access content in humanities and social sciences

SUMMARY Dietrich, like Madonna, has been called gender-bendingand androgynous, but Dietrich's on- and offscreen fluidity of gender identity, as reflected in her adoption the "double drag," upsets traditional dichotomy encoded more generally that male or female particularly butch femme.

This paper reports findings from a study commissioned by the Association of College & Research Libraries to identify new research agenda for scholarly communications and environment. The final report provides an overview trends practices identifies describes important questions where deeper inquiry is needed accelerate transition more open, inclusive, equitable systems scholarship. informed literature, as well advances in practice voices historically underrepresented communities. involved...

The National Forum described here was proposed as a first step in surfacing community requirements and principles toward collective open access (OA) collection development system. asked participants to envision funding environment for libraries contribute provisioning or sustaining funds OA content providers. A critical component of this project bring together groups interested invested individuals with different priorities perspectives begin build engagement dialogue. By analyzing focus...

How fast is open access growing? Is this enough? Why or why not? What are the impacts of currently evolving systems? For instance, overall costs being reduced for scholarly libraries? global to information increasing? about in Global South? impact region increasing adoption author-pays system?