The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition (SEPB) presents over 3,350 English-language articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet (see the table of contents for details). Most sources have been published from 1990 through 2008; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 1990 are also included. Where possible, links are provided to works that are freely available on the Internet, including e-prints in disciplinary archives and institutional repositories. Note that e-prints and published articles may not be identical.
The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition is available as a paperback (372 pages, $15.95, ISBN-10: 1448624908 and ISBN-13: 978-1448624904), a Kindle e-book, and an open access PDF file. All versions of the bibliography are available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
In 2003, Péter Jacsó said of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography in Online:
SEP [Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography] is compiled with utter professionalism. It reminds me of the work of the best artisans who know not only every item that leaves their workshops, but each component used to create them—providing the ideal quality control. . . . The selection of items is impeccable. I have yet to find journal articles irrelevant to the scope of the bibliography. SEP could be used as a benchmark in evaluating abstracting/indexing databases that proudly claim to have coverage of electronic publishing, but do not come close to SEP. Jacsó, Péter. (Full review)
In 1997, J. A. Buczynski said of SEPB in Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries:
This bibliography portal [Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography] demonstrates that citation lists continue to play a role in research, in spite of the availability of powerful Web and digital library search engines and the near-extinction of print bibliography publishing. Summing Up: Recommended.
Charles W. Bailey, Jr. is the publisher of Digital Scholarship, a website that deals with digital copyright, digital curation, digital repositories, open access, scholarly communication, and other digital information issues. He has over 30 years of information technology experience, including 24 years of managerial experience in academic libraries. Bailey has been an open access publisher for over 20 years, starting in 1989 with The Public-Access Computer Systems Review (founding Editor-in-Chief, 1989-2006), one of the first open access journals. In 1996, he began publishing the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, an open access book that has been updated over 75 times. He is the author of a number of digital and print bibliographies, including the Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals and Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography. He has written over 30 papers about digital copyright, expert systems, institutional repositories, open access, scholarly communication, and other topics. In 2010, Bailey was given a Best Content by an Individual Award by The Charleston Advisor. In 2003, he was named as one of Library Journal's "Movers & Shakers." 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. (See the "Selected Publications of Charles W. Bailey, Jr." for a more complete description of his publications.)
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