What is Scholarly Communication?
In 2003, ACRL defined scholarly communication as "the system through which research and other scholarly writings are created, evaluated for quality, disseminated to the scholarly community, and preserved for future use. The system includes both formal means of communication, such as publication in peer-reviewed journals, and informal channels, such as electronic listservs." Scholarly communication is frequently defined or depicted as a lifecycle documenting the steps involved in the creation, publication, dissemination and discovery of a piece of scholarly research.
- Source: Scholarly Communication ToolkitFind more information about Scholarly Communications at the Association of College and Research Libraries' (ACRL) Scholarly Communications Toolkit.
- WHY UNIVERSITIES NEED SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS EXPERTSThis article originally appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education on December 11, 2016, but is available to subscribers only. The full text is reprinted below.