What is Scholarly Communication?
Scholarly communication is the life-blood of the university’s teaching and research mission. With the advent of new technologies, the nature of scholarship and scholarly communication has expanded beyond traditional print formats to include other means of dissemination: email, pre-print servers, e-journals, e-books, e-reserves, distance learning, etc. In an online environment, issues of copyright, intellectual property rights, and the long-term preservation of digital assets are posing new challenges to faculty, administrators, and librarians.
Additional Resources:
• Principles and Strategies for the Reform of Scholarly Communication
, by ACRL, 2003
• ACRL Scholarly Communications Toolkit
• Association of Research Libraries (ARL) – Scholarly Communications
• ARL Create Change
Abbreviated Timeline of Scholarly Communication from 1665-2008
(revised, courtesy of Elizabeth Brown, 2006)
1665 First scholarly journal published
1675 Introduction of peer review
1969 ARPAnet created (Birth of the internet)
1991 Creation of arXiv.org at Los Alamos
Early 1990s - Science “serials pricing crisis”
1995 First scholarly electronic journal online
1999-2000 Electronic journal archives available online
2002 Open Access movement begins
2006 Open Peer Review
2008 NIH Mandate
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