Linda L. Phillips is Alumni Distinguished Service Professor and head of Scholarly Communication at the University of Tennessee Libraries. She chairs the Editorial Board of Newfound Press (www.newfoundpress.utk.edu), the library's digital imprint and peer-reviewed scholarly publishing demonstration for monographs, journals, and multimedia. Other responsibilities include developing Trace, UT's institutional repository, and leading the campus Scholarly Communication and Virtual Library Steering Committees. She has taught collection development for the university's School of Information Sciences, advocating for collections that encompass commercially published, locally digitized, and open access content. Her research interests focus on increasing access to scholarly information. Recent publications include Collaborative Collection Development: A Practical Guide for Your Library (ALA, 2004); "Collection Development" in New Librarian, New Job (Scarecrow, 2006); "Newfound Press: The Digital Imprint of the University of Tennessee Libraries" in First Monday (October 1, 2007); and “Metadata Plus: How Libraries Assure Discovery of Locally Created Content” (with Melanie Feltner-Reichert and Marie Garrett) in Pushing the Edge: Explore, Engage, Extend: Proceedings of the Fourteenth National Conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries, March 12-15, 2009, Seattle, Washington. Phillips chaired the ALCTS Collection Management & Development Section in 2006-2007. She holds the MLS degree from Rutgers University.
Articles
Newfound Press: The digital imprint of the University of Tennessee Libraries, First Monday (2007)
The University of Tennessee Libraries launched its digital imprint, Newfound Press, in 2005 to develop...
Presentations
The University of Tennessee Libraries Newfound Press Scholarly Publishing Demonstration, The Library As Publisher: Increasing Library Relevance through Institutional Repository Services, a program sponsored by the Berkeley Electronic Press at the Midwinter Meeting of the American Library Association, Boston, MA, January 17, 2010. (2010)
Launched in 2005, the University of Tennessee Newfound Press demonstrates open access; ensures quality through...
Selector as Entrepreneur (Panel presentation for New Selectors and Selecting in New Subjects: Meeting the Challenges), ALCTS CMDS RUSA CODES Program at the 2009 Annual Conference of the American Library Association (2009)
Collection building in the digital age aims to create a collection of "freely accessible, integrated,...
Metadata Plus: How Libraries Assure Discovery of Locally Created Content (with Melanie Feltner-Reichert and Marie Garrett), Association of College and Research Libraries, March 12-15, 2009 (2009)
This presentation offers a simple illustration of the ways html code, metadata tagging and other...
Other
Walking the Walk: A Path to Support Open Access Publishing [Poster] (with Donna Braquet) (2009)
Scholarly communication is the lifeblood of universities. Threats to the free flow of research and...