Introduction

Digital Scholarship provides information and commentary about digital copyright, digital curation, digital repository, open access, scholarly communication, and other digital information issues.

Major digital publishing projects that preceded Digital Scholarship included:

• The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, an open access journal established in 1989.
• The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography (SEPB), an updated open access book established in 1996.
• The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (SEPW), a weblog established in 2001. SEPW is currently published monthly.
• The Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals, a paperback (published by the Association of Research Libraries), an open access PDF file, and an open access XHTML website.

SEPB and SEPW continue to be published. (See "A Look Back at 22 Years as an Open Access Publisher" for details about earlier digital publishing projects.)

Chronology

Digital Scholarship publications are under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License.

2005

• April 20, 2005. Established DigitalKoans on the escholarlypub.com domain using WordPress for the weblog and FeedBurner for the (RSS feed). DigitalKoans is a weblog that provides news and commentary on digital copyright, digital curation, digital repositories, open access, scholarly communication, and other digital information issues. DigitalKoans is currently published daily, Sunday through Thursday.
• June 10, 2005. Published version 58 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography.
• July 8, 2005. Published the first version of the Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography.
• August 10, 2005. Made a preprint of the "Open Access Webliography" available (coauthored with Adrian K. Ho).
• September 9, 2005. Published version 59 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography.
• October 25, 2005. Published the first version of the Google Book Search Bibliography.
• December 9, 2005. Published version 60 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography.
• December 31, 2005. There were over 80 DigitalKoans posts in 2005.
• December 31, 2005. There were over 352,000 escholarlypub.com Web file requests from April 20, 2005 though December 31, 2005 by over 146,000 visitors from 162 countries.

2006

• January 8, 2006. Established the digital-scholarship.com domain to replace the escholarlypub.com domain.
• February 6, 2006. Published the Open Access Bibliography Author Index and the Open Access Bibliography Title Index.
• February 21, 2006. Published version 61 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography.
• March 22, 2006. Published an HTML version of the OAB.
• April 28, 2006. With Version 62 of SEPB, ceased publishing a corresponding Acrobat version.
• August 1, 2006. Published version 63 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography.
• October 17, 2006. Published version 64 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. This was the 10th anniversary version.
• November 1, 2006. Resigned my position as Assistant Dean for Digital Library Planning and Development at the University of Houston Libraries, where I had worked since November 1987 (previously as either Assistant Dean for Systems or Assistant Director for Systems).
• November 2, 2006. Published version 65 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography.
• November 3, 2006. Migrated SEPB, SEPR, and SEPW from the University of Houston Libraries' servers to escholarlypub.com. Discontinued the SEPW LISTSERV mailing list, and replaced it with a FeedBurner mailing list.
• December 14, 2006. Established the digital-scholarship.org domain on a second hosting service in order to mirror DigitalKoans and other files for increased reliability.
• December 18, 2006. Announced the digital-scholarship.org domain, branding it and digital-scholarship.com under the name "Digital Scholarship."
• December 18, 2006. Published version 66 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography.
• December 31, 2006. There were over 100 DigitalKoans posts in 2006.
• December 31, 2006. There were over 2 million Digital Scholarship Web file requests in 2006 by over 519,000 visitors from 190 countries.

2007

• March 14, 2007. Published the first annual PDF version of SEPB.
• April 11, 2007. Published version 67 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography.
• June 19, 2007. Published version 68 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography.
• September 25, 2007. Published version 69 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography.
• December 18, 2007. Published version 70 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography.
• December 31, 2007. There were over 400 DigitalKoans posts in 2007.
• December 31, 2007. There were over 4.9 million Digital Scholarship Web file requests in 2007 by over 1.1 million visitors from 204 countries.

2008

• January 6, 2008. Published Institutional Repositories, Tout de Suite.
• March 3, 2008. Published version 71 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography.
• March 21, 2008. Became a member of the Open Access Directory Editorial Board. Helped build the initial Wiki, and continue to add content to it.
• April 29, 2008. Published the second annual PDF version of SEPB. In this version, links were added for e-prints of published articles from disciplinary archives and institutional repositories, and many additional links were added for freely available versions of articles from publishers.
• May 12, 2008. Published version 2 of the Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography.
• May 27, 2008. Published version 2 of the Google Book Search Bibliography.
• June 9, 2008. Published version 72 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography.
• June 14, 2008. Authorized using the Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals as the basis for a new wiki bibliography on the Open Access Directory, called the Bibliography of Open Access.
• September 8, 2008. Published version 73 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography.
• October 27, 2008. Published Author's Rights, Tout de Suite.
• December 9, 2008. Published version 3 of the Google Book Search Bibliography
• December 31, 2008. Published version 74 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography.
• December 31, 2008. There were over 700 DigitalKoans posts in 2008.
• December 31, 2008. There were over 8.5 million Digital Scholarship Web file requests in 2008 by over 1.6 million visitors from 207 countries.

2009

• January 20, 2009. Published version 3 of the Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography.
• May 5, 2009. Published Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition as a print-on-demand paperback book under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. (XHTML SEPB version that this paperback was based on was freely available.)
• May 12, 2009. Published version 75 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography.
• June 29, 2009. Published version 4 of the Google Book Search Bibliography.
• July 10, 2009. Published the Kindle edition of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition.
• July 14, 2009. Published version 4 of the Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography.
• July 16, 2009. Created a Twitter feed for DigitalKoans.
• August 23, 2009. Created a Facebook page for Digital Scholarship.
• August 31, 2009. Created DigitalKoans Delicious bookmarks with wider coverage than the blog and added them to Twitter feed.
• September 8, 2009. Published version 76 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography.
• September 13, 2009. Published version 5 of the Google Book Search Bibliography.
• October 19, 2009. Published the Institutional Repository Bibliography.
• December 15, 2009. Published version 77 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography.
• December 31, 2009. There were over 1,100 DigitalKoans posts in 2009.
• December 31, 2009. There were over 9.7 million Digital Scholarship Web file requests in 2009 by over 1.6 million visitors from 213 countries.

2010

• January 11, 2010. Published version two of the Institutional Repository Bibliography.
• March 27, 2010. Published Digital Scholarship 2009 as a paperback. It included four bibliographies: the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2009 Annual Edition, the Institutional Repository Bibliography, the Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, and the Google Book Search Bibliography. (HTML versions of the bibliographies that this paperback was based on were freely available.)
• April 12, 2010. Published version 6 of the Google Book Search Bibliography.
• May 17, 2010. Published version 1 of the Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography.
• June 18, 2010. Published Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition as an open access PDF file.
• June 30, 2010. Published version 78 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography.
• August 21, 2010. Published Digital Scholarship 2009 as an open access PDF file.
• August 23, 2010. Published version 1 of the Open Access Journals Bibliography.
• September 7, 2010. Published Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography as a paperback.
• September 9, 2010. Published Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography as an open access PDF file.
• October 12, 2010. Published Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography as an open access HTML file.
• November 11, 2010. Published version three of the Institutional Repository Bibliography.
• November 30, 2010. Published version five of the Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography.
• December 13, 2010. Published version 79 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography.
• December 31, 2010. There were over 800 DigitalKoans posts in 2010.
• December 31, 2010. There were over 9.3 million Digital Scholarship Web file requests in 2010 by over 1.9 million visitors from 210 countries.

2011

• January 17, 2011. Published version 2 of the Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography.
• March 1, 2011. Published the Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography 2010 as a paperback.
• March 2, 2011. Published the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 2010 as a paperback.
• March 4, 2011. Published the Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography 2010 as an open access PDF file.
• March 4, 2011. Published the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 2010 as an open access PDF file.
• July 28, 2011. Published the Institutional Repository and ETD Bibliography 2011 as a paperback.
• August 15, 2011. Published version 7 of the Google Book Search Bibliography.
• August 30, 2011. Published the Institutional Repository and ETD Bibliography 2011 as an open access PDF file.
• October 18, 2011. Published the E-science and Academic Libraries Bibliography.
• October 30, 2011. Published version 80 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. This version marked the fifteenth year of publication of the bibliography, which was established on October 25, 1996.
• November 13, 2011. Established the LinkedIn Digital Curation group
• December 31, 2011. There were over 800 DigitalKoans posts in 2011.
• December 31, 2011. There were over 12.2 million Digital Scholarship Web file requests in 2011 by over 2.6 million visitors from 212 countries.