2020-08-27: A 25 Year Retrospective on D-Lib Magazine
Authors’ note: This document is also available as https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.11680 . In this HTML version, the footnotes were converted to either hyperlinks or endnotes. A 25 Year Retrospective on D-Lib Magazine Michael L. Nelson Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA USA mln@cs.odu.edu Herbert Van de Sompel Data Archiving and Networked Services The Hague, Netherlands herbert.van.de.sompel@dans.knaw.nl Abstract In July, 1995 the first issue of D-Lib Magazine was published as an on-line, HTML-only, open access magazine, serving as the focal point for the then emerging digital library research community. In 2017 it ceased publication, in part due to the maturity of the community it served as well as the increasing availability of and competition from eprints, institutional repositories, conferences, social media, and online journals -- the very ecosystem that D-Lib Magazine nurtured and enabled. As l...