history, art and art history, and Latin American literature and art. The real-world examples presented here focus on three specific humanities disciplines: U.S. These models and initiatives are presented as broadly adaptable and scalable to many higher education libraries throughout the world, even where variations in change-readiness size and fiscal, staff, and technology resources exist. This article presents a brief description of open access digital knowledge creation, the library publishing landscape (particularly in Digital Humanities/DH), as well as several model higher education library approaches and example initiatives in these areas. “Researchers are drowning in a deluge of raw data and published information and face a bewildering array of options for disseminating and sharing their work.” What they often overlook, however, is the potential role academic librarians can play by partnering with them so they can more efficiently and effectively use new modes of research and publication, navigate copyright limitations, increase the impact of their publications, improve teaching and learning, manage their scholarly identity, and preserve their content into the future.Ībstract Since the mid-1990s, many higher education libraries have evolved from the traditional roles of primarily (1) research resource purchasers and providers and (2) research service providers into new, enhanced, and complementary digital age roles related to digital open access knowledge creation and digital publishing, creating digital resources for open education. They now ask a broader range of questions using a wider range of data and methods, as they disseminate results in multiple forms. Can campus libraries heed Whitehead’s call by co-creating the future as central assets in this task to reinvent the future in concert with their campus communities? In the digital age, academic libraries at two-year, four-year, and graduate-level institutions are evolving from the notion of book warehouses, breaking through their “edifice complex.” Librarians are turning outward toward their communities to reimagine their roles from a collection-centered to an engagement-focused model of service-“from publication as product to publication as process.” Scholars are also shifting their research practices and teaching methods as network-level services emerge to facilitate their work. Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician and philosopher, believed universities should marshal all their resources toward the goal of creating a better world.
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