Welcome to the IU Libraries Scholarly Communication blog! This blog will be a way to keep abreast of scholarly communications news and developments of interest to the IU community. So what exactly is scholarly communication? The Association of College and Research Libraries defines it 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.”
(http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/whitepapers/principlesstrategies.cfm )
As you can see from this definition, we’ll be covering a wide-range of topics covering all stages of the research and dissemination process. Since copyright plays an important role in this area, we’ll be throwing quite a bit of that in as well. If you’re looking for more information about a particular topic, just let us know and we’ll try to cover it. Welcome to the blog!
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