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Untying knots and joining dots: the role of librarians in the scholarly communication environment

Author(s) -

Martin Wolf

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

insights the uksg journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.41

H-Index - 14

ISSN - 2048-7754

DOI - 10.1629/uksg.158

Subject(s) - plea , order (exchange) , scholarly communication , middleware (distributed applications) , world wide web , computer science , digital library , sociology , political science , business , art , law , distributed computing , literature , poetry , finance , publishing

This opinion piece on the role of libraries in the scholarly communication environment covers the following issues: the notion of librarians as the proxies and ‘middleware’ of the scholarly communications landscape; the need for librarians to be willing to adapt their practices in order to ease some of the complexities inherent in research communications; a plea for publishers to provide simpler, more straightforward and transparent subscription and open access (OA) offers to libraries; and some thoughts on where rapid developments in digital technologies might lead the information professions

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