AUTHOR BIOGRAPHYStephen Craig Finlay is the director of the library at Murray State College in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. Prior to this, he was the scholarly communication librarian at Indiana University South Bend, where he also taught information literacy. Finlay launched IU South Bend’s institutional repository and online journal publishing initiatives, and also started the first funded open educational resources program in the Indiana University system. In 2014 he founded the Michiana (now ALI) Scholarly Communication Librarianship Conference, which, as of 2020, is still going strong as the only annual conference on scholarly communication librarianship. Finlay has published on a wide range of issues including bibliometrics, disciplinarity, scholarly communication education, and doctoral research in library and information science.
REVIEWS"[Finlay] has assembled a respected cadre of authors ... [This book] does a fine job of addressing key IR concepts and providing straightforward, real-world, successful examples of how IR provides a venue for an institution’s scholarly publication both locally and globally.”
— Technicalities
"Written for those new to the field and those seeking to understand institutional repositories better, this book provides the background needed for librarians new to the discipline to begin to understand the complexities of digital scholarship and institutional repositories. It also has enough variety to expand the knowledge of those who already have some experience in this discipline.”
— Technical Services Quarterly