New From Educopia: “A Bibliographic Scan of Digital Scholarly Communication Infrastructure” by David Lewis
From Educopia:
This Bibliographic Scan by David W. Lewis provides an extensive literature review and overview of today’s digital scholarly communications ecosystem, including information about 206 tools, services, and systems that are instrumental to the publishing and distribution of the scholarly record. The Bibliographic Scan includes 67 commercial and 139 non-profit scholarly communication organizations, programs, and projects that support researchers, repositories, publishing, discovery, preservation, and assessment.
The review includes three sections:
- Scholarly citations of works that discuss various functional areas of digital scholarly communication ecosystem (e.g., Repositories, Research Data, Discovery, Evaluation and Assessment, and Preservation);
- Charts that record the major players active in each functional area;
- Descriptions of each organization/program/project included in the Bibliographic Scan.
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See Also: Mellon Grant Will Support Revamping Infrastructure for Digital Scholarship (2018)
Filed under: Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Funding, News, Open Access, Preservation, Publishing, Reports, Scholarly Communications

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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.