self publishing and the academic library
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Levine-Clark, Michael, "Self Publishing and the Academic Library," invited, Self Pub 2.0 Preconference, Charleston Conference, Charleston, S.C., November 6, 2013. Part of a panel on "Vendor Services and Self Publishing."TRANSCRIPT
Self-Published Books and the Academic Library
Self Pub 2.0Charleston Conference
November 6, 2013
Michael Levine-ClarkAssociate Dean for Scholarly Communication and
Collections ServicesUniversity of Denver [email protected]
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Libraries rely on other experts to vet content for us
• Peer review process• Publishers• Approval vendors • Ebook aggregators
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How radically will the scholarly book publishing landscape change in the next five years?
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Explosion of Self Publishing
2007 2011 20120
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American Self Published (ISBN)North American Scholarly (YBP)American Book Produc-tion (BISAC)
How do libraries provide access to self-published books? Or do we?
Peer Review of Self-Published Books
• Unlikely for most self-published material
• Identify after the fact? – Reviews – Citations– Klout
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How Do Librarians Determine Quality?
• Traditionally publisher determines quality• How do librarians and our vendors identify
quality without the help of publishers?– Institutional affiliation? (but what about writers
outside the academy?)– Author name? (but what about un-established
authors?)– And what about bad books by known authors?• Or authors writing outside area of expertise?
How do we find that archaeology title while eliminating the holocaust denial book?
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