Digital scholarship and libraries

"One of the more rewarding things I have done as a librarian was having the opportunity to found the open access journal imprint New Prairie Press here at Kansas State. Part of this work has been honing the message of open access and digital scholarship that we present to potential scholarly journal editors. Many are initially skeptical, but without fail I can report that all of the editors who have come on board are now enthusiastic supporters of this new publishing paradigm. One of the advantages I often mention is that with digital scholarship, many of the limitations of print publication cease to exist, first and foremost page counts and limitations...."