<div dir="ltr">"A Quarter-Century as an Open Access Publisher"<br><br>The first open access journals were published in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and academic libraries were part of the movement from the beginning. In 1989, I established The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, an open access journal published by the University of Houston Libraries. In 1996, I established the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, an OA digital book also published by the UH Libraries through 1996. It was updated 80 times through 2011. In 2005, I established Digital Scholarship, which has published OA digital books, weblogs, other types of OA documents, and low-cost paperbacks.<br>
<br>"A Quarter-Century as an Open Access Publisher" briefly recounts this personal history of open access publishing.<br><br><a href="http://bit.ly/1meLwIK">bit.ly/1meLwIK</a><br><br>For a look at other early OA journals, see the volume 2, number 1 (1991) issue of the The Public-Access Computer Systems Review:<br>
<br><a href="http://bit.ly/1peVlJR">bit.ly/1peVlJR</a><br><br>Best Regards,<br>Charles<br><br>Charles W. Bailey, Jr.<br>Publisher, Digital Scholarship<br><a href="http://digital-scholarship.org/cwbprofile.htm">http://digital-scholarship.org/cwbprofile.htm</a><br>
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