Common Ground at the Nexus of Information Literacy and Scholarly Communication - Tapa blanda

Common Ground at the Nexus of Information Literacy and Scholarly Communication presents concepts, experiments, collaborations, and strategies at the crossroads of the fields of scholarly communication and information literacy. The seventeen essays and interviews in this volume engage ideas and describe vital partnerships that enrich both information literacy and scholarly communication programs within institutions of higher education.Contributions address core scholarly communication topics such as open access, copyright, authors' rights, the social and economic factors of publishing, and scholarly publishing through the lens of information literacy. This volume is appropriate for all university and college libraries and for library and information school collections.

Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Co-Editor is the Scholarly Communications Librarian at Illinois Wesleyan University, USA. She provides leadership for scholarly communication programs and services, including Digital Commons @ IWU. She works with students, faculty and staff to provide guidance on authors' rights, copyright, and open access. As Managing Faculty Co-Editor of the Undergraduate Economic Review, she works closely with students on the publishing process.Merinda Kaye Hensley, Co-Editor, is the Instructional Services Librarian and Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. She is also the Co-coordinator of the Scholarly Commons, a library unit that serves the emerging research and technology needs of scholars in data services, digital humanities, digitization, and scholarly communication.