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 open access 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 book that is currently updated on a biannual basis. Over 75 versions of SEPB have been published since 1996.

In 2005, he established Digital Scholarship. In addition to the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, Digital Scholarship has published:

• DigitalKoans (2005-present), 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 (2005-present)
• Google Books Bibliography (2005-present)
• Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals (2005), a paperback, open access PDF file, and XHML edition
• Author's Rights; Tout de Suite (2008)
• Institutional Repositories, Tout de Suite (2008)
• Institutional Repository Bibliography (2009-present)
• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition (2009), a paperback, a Kindle edition, and an open access PDF file
• Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography (2010)
• Digital Scholarship 2009 (2010), a paperback and open access PDF file, which included four bibliographies: the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2009 Annual Edition, the Institutional Repository Bibliography, the Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, and the Google Book Search Bibliography
• Open Access Journals Bibliography (2010)

From April 2005 through July 2010, Digital Scholarship had over 6.1 million visitors from 227 counties and over 30.4 million file requests.

For further information, see the "Digital Scholarship Chronology," and "A Look Back at 21 Years as an Open Access Publisher."

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 has served on the editorial boards of Information Technology and Libraries, Library Software Review, and Reference Services Review.

He 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.