Adjunct No More: Promoting Scholarly Publishing as a Core Service of Academic Libraries

"The founding of the Library Publishing Coalition (LPC) in 2013 appears to substantiate earlier claims from the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) that '[t]here is an emerging consensus that some sort of basic publishing services will become a core service for research libraries.'1 However, even with a growing LPC membership — and calls for digital publishing to be considered a new 'core competency' for librarians2 — complete consensus among library leaders about publishing has not yet been reached.3 The lack of agreement is hardly surprising: if publishing services do become part of the core identity of academic libraries, it will represent a fundamental shift in the role of libraries within the scholarly community ..."