Chapter Nine
The Library as Publisher
So far this book has looked at copyright from the perspective of the consumer of copyrighted works. Most of the time, patrons want to use resources in some way—read a book, copy an article, listen to music, or watch a movie. Libraries also need to reproduce resources to preserve them or to fulfill interlibrary loan requests. But what if a library wants to publish original works or republish existing works in new formats?
Digital technologies have increased libraries’ publishing capabilities. Many academic libraries have established digital collections of faculty research called institutional repositories.[1] Some academic libraries have gone further and published original scholarly books. For example, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s repository has published a major reference work, along with undergraduate projects and doctoral dissertations.[2] The University of Michigan Press and Utah State University Press are actually divisions of their library systems. Online publishing systems, such as Open Journal Systems and Digital Commons, enable libraries to publish digital journals and post copies of faculty scholarship. HathiTrust Digital Library, a collaboration of academic libraries, produces collections of digitized books from library collections and is working to establish a division for publishing original works.[3]
- ↑ The vast literature on institutional repositories is organized in Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Institutional Repository and ETD Bibliography 2011, available at http://www.digital-scholarship.org/iretd/iretd.pdf.
- ↑ Paul Royster, Publishing Original Content in an Institutional Repository, 34 Serials Review 27 (2008).
- ↑ http://www.hathitrust.org.
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