Charles W. Bailey Jr

Charles W. Bailey, Jr. is the publisher of Digital Scholarship. He has over 30 years of information and instructional technology experience, including 24 years of managerial experience in academic libraries. He has been an open access publisher since 1989, when he established and began to edit the first open access journal in the field of library and information science, The Public-Access Computer Systems Review. In 2005, Bailey established Digital Scholarship, which publishes works about digital copyright, digital curation, digital repositories, open access, scholarly communication, and other digital information issues. In 2010, Bailey was given a Best Content by an Individual Award by The Charleston Advisor. In 2003, he was named as one of Library Journal's "Movers & Shakers." In 1993, he was awarded the first LITA/Library Hi Tech Award For Outstanding Communication for Continuing Education in Library and Information Science.