Last week, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill held a two day convocation on the changing shape of scholarly communications in the digital world. I was fortunate enough to be able to attend part of the meeting. As background for the convocation, a number of members of the campus community developed white papers to help inform the discussion.

These include a number of superb and rather unusual papers written by faculty and taking a very valuable disciplinary perspective on the evolution of scholarly communication. These papers are available at

http://www.unc.edu/scholcomdig/

I learned a great deal from reading these papers, and I believe that they may be valuable not just to readers interested in scholarly communications developments, but perhaps specifically as resources and sources of ideas for other  institutions planning similar campus-wide discussions.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI