The Idealis

"The Idealis is a new kind of open access portal, powered by PressForward and curated by librarian-experts working in the arena of scholarly communication. Each week, editors will recruit the very best [new and old] LIS/scholarly communication literature from across the Web, working with authors to make their research available, ensuring that you are connected to excellent research that’s relevant to your work....The Idealis will use the greatest information resource known to humankind–librarians–to create a carefully curated portal of research relevant first and foremost to the needs of library practitioners. We will work to liberate formerly toll access or otherwise difficult to access research in all forms–articles, books, code, data sets, presentations, white papers, and more–with all the tools at our disposal....The Idealis editors curate the best content for addition to our site, selecting high-quality LIS scholarship from among journals’ table of contents, open access repositories, and self-publishing and social media sites like Slideshare, YouTube, and the library blogosphere. Authors/creators may also submit their own work to be considered for inclusion in The Idealis...."