Charles W. Bailey, Jr. is the publisher of Digital Scholarship.

He has over 30 years of information and instructional technology experience, including 24 years of managerial experience in academic libraries. From 1987 to 2007, he served as either the Assistant Dean for Digital Library Planning and Development or the Assistant Dean/Director for Systems at the University of Houston Libraries. (See "Brief Resume of Charles W. Bailey, Jr." for details.)

From 1976 to 1986, he served as the Media Library Manager at the Learning Resources Center, SUNY College at Oswego; User Documentation Specialist at the OCLC Online Computer Library Center; Systems Librarian at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library, The Johns Hopkins University; and Head, Systems and Research Services at the Health Sciences Library, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Bailey has been an Internet publisher for over 20 years, starting in 1989 with The Public-Access Computer Systems Review (Editor-in-Chief, 1989-2006), one of the first open access journals. In 2006, he began publishing the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography (SEPB), an open access XHTML e-book that is currently updated on a quarterly basis. Over 75 versions of SEPB have been published since 1996. In 2009, he published the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition as a print-on-demand paperback book and as a Kindle e-book.

In 2005, he established a digital publishing site, now called Digital Scholarship. On it, he has published the following works in addition to the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography:

• Author's Rights; Tout de Suite
• DigitalKoans (weblog that provides news and commentary on digital copyright, digital curation, digital repositories, open access, scholarly communication, and other digital information issues)
• Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography
• Google Book Search Bibliography
• Institutional Repository Bibliography
• Institutional Repositories, Tout de Suite
• Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals (XHML edition of print/PDF book)

For details, see "A Look Back at Twenty Years as an Internet Digital Publisher."

From April 2005 through November 2009, Digital Scholarship had over 4.9 million visitors from 224 counties and over 24.8 million file requests.

Bailey has published a number of articles and other scholarly works. He was the co-editor of Institutional Repositories, SPEC Kit 292; Advances in Library Automation and Networking, vol. 5; and Expert Systems in ARL Libraries, SPEC Kit 174. He has published papers in Collection Management, Information Technology and Libraries, The Journal of Electronic Publishing, ONLINE, Reference Services Review, Serials Review, and other journals. He has also published nine book chapters. (See "Selected Publications of Charles W. Bailey, Jr." for details.)

He serves on the editorial board of Information Technology and Libraries, and he previously served on the boards of Library Software Review and Reference Services Review.

He also serves on the editorial boards of the Digital Library of Information Science and Technology (dLIST) repository and the Open Access Directory. He is a member of the Current Cites team.

In 2003, he was named as one of Library Journal's "Movers & Shakers", and, in 1993, he was awarded the first LITA/Library Hi Tech Award For Outstanding Communication for Continuing Education in Library and Information Science.

He holds master's degrees in information and library science and instructional media and technology as well as a bachelor's degree in communication.