Scholarly Communication
A guide to issues in scholarly communication, including publishing, open access, copyright, author rights, and digital archiving.
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What is Scholarly Communication?
Scholarly Communication encompasses the complete scholarship lifecycle: research, data collection and analysis, authoring, peer review and certification; publication and discovery. Each stage is affected by decisions dictating how the research is disseminated and used. These decisions have implications for scholars, the research, and society. As a scholar, you need to possess basic knowledge of the related issues, including copyright, author rights, open access, publishing, digital archiving, and data management, in order to make informed decisions. This library guide is designed to help you understand the scholarship lifecycle and its underlying issues, empowering you take action and make the best choices to further the reach of your work.
Navigating the Scholarly Communication Library Guide
- Scholarly PublishingDiscusses models of publishing, strategies for establishing an online presence, getting published, obtaining research funding, journal impact, and citation metrics.
- Open AccessOffers a brief introduction to the topic and links to the open access library guide.
- Author RightsDiscusses author rights and publishing agreements, offers strategies for retaining your rights, and explains creative commons licensing.
- Repositories and Self-ArchivingInstructions for how to archive your work, how to contribute to the ASU Digital Repository, links to funding agency archiving requirements, and developing data management plans.
- Campus EngagementAddresses how ASU is engaged with scholarly communication issues, including: digital repositories, research services, memberships that provide assistance with APCs, open access journals published at ASU, and edXchange.
- Other ResourcesAdditional resources for learning more about scholarly communication and keeping up to date with current trends and news.
Resources for Understanding Scholarly Communications
- 10 Things You Should Know About Scholarly Communication (pdf)From the Association of College and Research Libraries 2013 conference
- The Vienna Principles: A Vision for Scholarly Communication in the 21st Century (pdf)The document outlines the current state of scholarly communication and proposes twelve idealized principles for its future design.
- Force11FORCE11 is a community of scholars, librarians, archivists, publishers and research funders that has arisen to help facilitate the change toward improved knowledge creation and sharing.They aim to bring about a change in modern scholarly communications through the effective use of information technology.
- ACRL Scholarly CommunicationIncludes information about the Association of College and Research Libraries' (ACRL) activities in scholarly communication education, outreach, and coalition building, and related resources.
- ACRL Scholarly Communication ToolkitThe Toolkit provides you with a basic understanding of scholarly communication issues in the context of their impact upon libraries. You will also find various tools, presentations, handouts and other takeaways that can be used while developing your own local resources.
- 101 Innovations in Scholarly Communication - The Changing Research WorkflowThis overview of 101 innovative tools and sites facilitates discussion on different processes of innovation, disruption, diffusion, consolidation, competition and success, but also of failure and stagnation, over the last three decades of scholarly communication efforts.
- 400+ Tools and innovations in scholarly communicationThis is a shared database that grew out of the "101 innovations in scholarly communication" project
- Ultra Slavonic: Staying current in scholcommThis regularly updated list identifies helpful resources for staying current on trends in scholarly communication.
- Digital ScholarshipDigital Scholarship provides information and commentary about digital copyright, digital curation, digital repository, open access, research data management, scholarly communication, and other digital information issues.
- FOSTER Open Science toolkit10 self-paced learning modules to help you become an open science expert! Includes topics such as managing and sharing research data, open licensing, open access publishing, open peer review, and more.
Scholarly Communication Podcasts
- Library Channel Podcast on Scholarly Communication (mp3)In this ASU Library production, librarian Tammy Wolf discusses the ongoing crisis in scholarly communication with the Collections and Scholarly Communication Office at ASU.
- Library Channel Podcast on Open Access @ ASUScholarly Communication Librarian Anali Perry hosts a discussion with three ASU professors about open access issues and their own activities.