2025 "CNI as an Idea Factory: An Appreciation of Clifford Lynch." portal: Libraries and the Academy 25, no. 3, July 2025, Supplement: 13-21.  https://muse.jhu.edu/article/964196.

2025 “Reflections on the Mellon Foundation’s Digital Publication Program.” Presented at the Symposium on Foundations and Futures of Digital Scholarship, May 1-2, 2025, in the panel on Born-Digital Publications: New Scholarly Forms, New Models of Collaboration, Brown University.

2025 Meeting the Climate Emergency: University Information Infrastructure for Researching Wicked Problems. Washington, D.C.: Coalition for Networked Information, 2025. https://doi.org/10.56561/LCOA2799.  Also published by Ithaka S+R with a Foreword by Catherine Bond Hill and Dylan Ruediger. https://doi.org/10.18665/sr.322357.

2023 “The Emerging Digital Infrastructure for Research in the Humanities.” International Journal on Digital Libraries 24, no. 2: 87–102. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-022-00332-3.

2020 Hill Manuscript & Museum Library and the Arcadia Fund, Partnership Review, Confidential Final Report, April 5.  Commissioned by the Arcadia Fund.

2019 “Three Questions with Don Waters.”  CLIR Issues 131 (September/October 2019).  Available at https://www.clir.org/2019/10/clir-issues-131/

2018 “Urgent Issues in Scholarly Communications (學術溝通): A View from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.” Paper presented at the Fall Symposium on Digital Scholarship, Hong Kong Baptist University.

2017 “What is a Text in the Digital Age?”  Paper presented at a symposium co-sponsored by the Institute of English Studies and the School of English at Newcastle University, London, England.

2017 With Patricia Hswe. “No Time for Radio Silence on Audio Visual Media Preservation.”  Available at https://web.archive.org/web/20170624152148/https://mellon.org/resources/shared-experiences-blog/no-time-radio-silence-audio-visual-media-preservation/

2016 “Monograph Publishing in the Digital Age: A View from the Mellon Foundation.” Against the Grain 28(3).  Available at https://www.charleston-hub.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/ATG_fea_waters_v28-3.pdf.

2015 “Restrictions in the Age of Open.”  Available at https://web.archive.org/web/20170324155738/https://mellon.org/resources/shared-experiences-blog/restrictions-age-open/

2015 “Why do Libraries Matter?” Paper presented at the Preconference for the Designing Libraries for the 21st Century conference, Raleigh, North Carolina.

2014 “Priorities in Scholarly Communications: A Foundation Perspective.” Paper presented at the Fiesole Collection Development Retreat, Cambridge, England.

2014 “New Challenges and Possibilities in Digital Humanities.” Paper presented as part of the speaker series on Digitized Approaches to Sources, Interpretive Methodologies, and Potential Collaborations, Hill Library, North Carolina State University, North Carolina.

2013 “An Overview of the Digital Humanities.” Research Libraries Issues 284: 3-11.  Available at https://publications.arl.org/rli284/3

2013 “Digital Humanities and the Changing Ecology of Scholarly Communications.” International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 7 (March): 13-28.

2011 “Data Intensive Research: A Perspective from the Humanities.”  Paper presented at a workshop on Developing a Community Capability Model for Data-Intensive Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

2009 “The Changing Role of Special Collections in Scholarly Communications.” Research Libraries Issues 267: 30-42.  Available at https://publications.arl.org/rli267/31

2009 “Archives, Edition-Making, and the Future of Scholarly Communication.”  Versions of this essay were presented at the Forum on Academic Publishing in the Humanities, Cornell University, November 7–8, 2008; the Annual Conference of the Professional & Scholarly Publishing Division, Association of American Publishers, Washington, D.C., February 4, 2009; and the Symposium on the Changing Landscape of Scholarly Communication in the Digital Age, Texas A&M University, February 12, 2009.  Available at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rUFce-OHjVaQwVw7zdC0SnYQWt1LHhDO/view?usp=sharing

2009 With Helen Cullyer.  “Priorities for the Scholarly Communications Program,” The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Report from January 1, 2008 through December 31, 2008, pp. 34-50.  Available at https://mellon.org/about/annual-reports/2008-priorities-scholarly-communications-program/

2008 “Updating the Copyright Law: Issues Arising from the Section 108 Study Group.” Paper presented as part of the speaker series on The Emerging Configurations of the Virtual and the Real, Art Law Committee, New York City Bar Association.

2008 With Joseph S. Meisel. “Scholarly Publishing Initiatives,” The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Report from January 1, 2007 through December 31, 2007, pp. 31-45.  Available at https://mellon.org/about/annual-reports/2007-scholarly-publishing-initiatives/

2008 “Open Access Publishing and the Emerging Infrastructure for 21st Century Scholarship.” Journal of Electronic Publishing 11(1).  Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0011.106

2007 “Doing Much More Than We Have So Far Attempted.” EDUCAUSE Review  42 (5), pp. 8-9.  Available at https://er.educause.edu/articles/2007/8/doing-much-more-than-we-have-so-far-attempted

2006 “Preserving the Knowledge Commons.”  In Elinor Ostrom and Charlotte Hess, eds.  Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice.  Cambridge: MIT Press, pp. 145-167.

2006 “Managing Digital Assets in Higher Education: An Overview of Strategic Issues.” ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC 244, pp. 1-10. Available at https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED491754.pdf

2004 Building on success, forging new ground: The question of sustainability.  First Monday, 9(5). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v9i5.1148

2003 “Doing Nothing is Not an Option: Evolving Roles and Opportunities in the Digital Era.”  Paper presented at the Archiving Forum Co-sponsored by The National Library of Medicine and The American Medical Publishers' Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

2003 “Energizing Digital Libraries for the Next Decade: Reflections on the 10th Anniversary of the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities.” Charlottesville, Virginia.

2002 “Good Archives Make Good Scholars: Reflections on Recent Steps Toward the Archiving of Digital Information.” In The State of Digital Preservation: An International Perspective, Conference Proceedings of the Documentation Abstracts, Inc. Institutes for Information Science, Washington, D.C., April 24-25, 2002.  Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resources.  Available at http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub107/waters.html

2001 “The Uses of Digital Libraries: Some Technological, Political, and Economic Considerations.” In Deanna Marcum, ed., Development of Digital Libraries: An American Perspective, pp. 127-147. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press.

1998 "Choices in Digital Archiving: The American Experience." In Ian Butterworth, eds., The Impact of Electronic Publishing on the Academic Community.  An International Workshop organized by the Academia Europaea and the Wenner-Gren Foundation, pp. 133-140.  London: Portland Press

1998 "Digital Archiving: The Report of the CPA/RLG Task Force." In Preservation and Digitisation: Principles, Practices, and Policies.  Papers given at the National Preservation Office 1996 Annual Conference, University of York, 3-5 September, pp. 37-48. London: British Library, National Preservation Office.

1998 "Steps Toward A System of Digital Preservation: Some Technological, Political and Economic Considerations."  In Brian L. Hawkins and Patricia Battin, eds, The Mirage of Continuity: Reconfiguring Academic Information Resources for the 21st Century, pp. 193-206.  Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resources and Association of American Universities.

1998 "Transforming Libraries through Digital Preservation." In Donald L. DeWitt, ed., Going Digital: Strategies for Access, Preservation, and Conversion of Collections to a Digital Format, pp. 99-111. New York: The Haworth Press, Inc.

1998 “What are digital libraries.” CLIR Issues, No. 4, July/August. Available at https://www.clir.org/1998/07/clir-issues-number-4/#dlf

1996 "Archiving Digital Information." In Tomorrow's Access--Today's Decisions: Ensuring Access to Today's Electronic Resources Tomorrow.  Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Conference of Research Library Directors.  Dublin, Ohio: OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.

1996 Preserving Digital Information. Final Report of the Task Force on the Archiving of Digital Information, Donald J. Waters and John Garrett, eds. Washington, D.C.: Commission on Preservation and Access and Mountain View, CA: The Research Libraries Group, May 1, 1996.  Available at https://www.clir.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/pub63watersgarrett.pdf

1995 “Realizing the Benefits from Inter-Institutional Agreements: The Implications of the Draft Report of the Task Force on Digital Archiving.”  In Building Partnerships that Shape the Future.  Proceedings of the 127th Annual Meeting, October 18-20, 1995.  Washington, D.C.: Association of Research Libraries.  Available at https://web.archive.org/web/20041228001529/http://arl.cni.org/arl/proceedings/127/index.html.

1994 “Transforming Libraries through Digital Preservation.” In Nancy Elkington, ed., Digital Imaging Technology for Preservation, pp. 115-127, Mountain View, CA: The Research Libraries Group.

1992 Electronic Technologies and Preservation. Washington, D.C.: The Commission on Preservation and Access.

1992 With Shari Weaver.  The Organizational Phase of Project Open Book: A Report to the Commission on Preservation and Access.  Washington, D.C.: The Commission on Preservation and Access.  Available at https://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/openbook/

1991 From Microfilm to Digital Imagery. On the feasibility of a project to study the means costs and benefits of converting large quantities of preserved library materials from microfilm to digital images. Washington, D.C.: The Commission on Preservation and Access. Reprinted in ERLC 1(3): 239‑280. ERLC is the Quarterly of the Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherché (LIBER).

1990 “'We have a Computer:’ Administrative Issues in the Relations between Libraries and Campus

Computing Organizations.” Journal of Library Administration 13 (1/2):117-138.

1989-1990 “Orbis Behind the Screens” in Omnibus, a supplement of the Yale Weekly Bulletin and Calendar. (A series of articles including: “The Library’s Automated Catalog,” “The Telecommunications  Network,” “The Software Package,” “The Powers of Integration,” “Database Components,” and “Converting Catalog Cards to Orbis”).

1988 “Review of Jeannine Uppgard, ed., Developing Microcomputer Work Areas in Academic

Libraries.” Information Technology and Libraries 7: 448-449.

1984 “Review of Marilyn Silverman, Rich People and Rice: Factional Politics in Rural Guyana.”

Nieue West-Indische Gids 58: 119-121.

1983 Strange Ways and Sweet Dreams: Afro‑American Folklore from the Hampton Institute. Edited with an Introduction. Boston: G.K. Hall and Company.

1982 An “Empire of Necessity:” Capital Accumulation on West Indian Plantations and the Problem of Artisan Manufacturing, 1640‑ 1880. Dissertation presented to the Department of Anthropology, Yale University.

1982 “Review of Walter Rodney, A History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881— 1905.” Nieue

West-Indische Gids 56: 94-95.

1980 “Jungle Politics: Guyana, the People's Temple, and the Affairs of State.” Caribbean Review, 9

(Spring): 8-13.