Joe Williams UNC Greensboro, in collaboration with more than 50 other academic libraries and the Educopia Institute, has joined a two-year project (2013-2014) to create the Library Publishing Coalition (LPC). The project emerged from conversations between Purdue University, the University of North Texas, and Virginia Tech regarding the need for a community dedicated to advancing the field of library publishing. UNC Greensboro will play an integral role in the design and implementation of the LPC as a Founding institution. Joe Williams, Head of Access Services and the Digital Media Commons, is the representative of the UNCG University Libraries to the coalition. Academic libraries and the researchers and organizations they support are facing a new paradigm in scholarly publishing. The web, information and social media technologies, and the Open Source and Open Access movements are changing the framework in which scholarship is created, collected, organized, and disseminated....
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