Title

Agents of Diversity and Social Justice: Librarians and Scholarly Communication

Authors

Charlotte Roh, University of San FranciscoFollow
Harrison Inefuku, Iowa State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

Fall 2016

Abstract

This chapter considers diversity broadly to mean a variety of perspectives, whether grounded in race, gender, sexual orientation, ability, socioeconomic status, or disciplinary study. It begins with a description of the current environment of scholarly communication, looking at the demographics and state of affairs in academia, publishing, and librarianship, including how biases present in all three fields affect scholarly communication. It then moves to a consideration of how librarians and library publishing programs can transform scholarly communication. By adopting a social justice perspective--actively working against ignorance and indifference to reduce systematic biases and injustice in academia, publishing, and librarianship- academic libraries can make their collections and products more reflective of the breadth of knowledge and experiences found in society and make their processes more welcoming to a diversity of participants.

Comments

From Open Access and the Future of Scholarly Communication: Policy and Infrastructure

Edited by Kevin L. Smith and Katherine A. Dickson

Copyright Kevin Smith

Rowman and Littlefield Publishers

Available at https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442273016/Open-Access-and-the-Future-of-Scholarly-Communication-Policy-and-Infrastructure#

ORCID

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3554-3411

Recommended Citation

Inefuku, Harrison, and Roh, Charlotte. Agents of Diversity and Social Justice: Librarians and Scholarly Communication. Ed. Smith, Kevin and Dickson, Katherine A. Open Access and the Future of Scholarly Communication: Policy and Infrastructure Rowman and Littlefield (2016)