This presentation is part of library science course "Scholarly communication"

1. Unit 2
channels of scholarly
communication
By
A.V.K. Sandhya Rani
"Channels of Scholarly Communication" by V. K. Sandhya Rani Aakundi is
licensed under CC BY 4.0

2. Learning
outcomes
INTRODUCTION
2.1
Channels of Scholarly
communication. 2.2
Communicating through
Scholarly Journals 2.3
Conclusion
2.4
Thanks to all

3. Introduction
Scholarly communication is an important cyclic process where we
generate, review, disseminate, acquire, preserve, discover, assess, and
assimilate content. This leads to advances in scholarship by generating more
content, thus perpetuating the cycle.
Academics, scholars, and researchers share their research work with
others or publish the same for the benefit of others in the academic community.
This exchange of academic writing is called scholarly communication. It is
possible through formal and informal channels. books, peer-reviewed journals,
indexes, conference proceedings, reports, patents, standards, institutional
repositories, and databases are examples of formal channels of scholarly
communication as well as like preprints, websites, blogs, emails, conversations,
or invisible colleges are examples of informal/Unpublished channels. The arts
and humanities fields include multimedia file formats as well.
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Channels of Scholarly
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6. Formal Channels
of Scholarly
communication

7. Formal channels of Scholarly communication
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• Peer-reviewed journals: Peer-reviewed journals have an editorial board of subject Experts
who review and evaluate submitted articles before accepting them for publication. Editorial
board members are listed in beginning of each journal. You can find it in databases and it can
protect, maintain the quality, and publish it in journal.
• Indexes: Indexing is a collection of items gathered for a certain reason. Journal
indexing are collection of journal titles categorized by discipline, subject, or publishing
type. It is also called as bibliographic indexes or bibliographic databases.
• Conference Proceedings: A conference Proceeding is a published record of
Conference, Symposium, Workshop or any other meeting. Sometimes it includes
reports or abstracts of papers presented by the participants.
• Reports: In many ways, a research report can be considered as a summary of the
research process that clearly highlights findings, recommendations, and other
important details.

8. Formal channels of Scholarly communication
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• Theses & Dissertations: Theses and dissertations can be a useful resource for research information.
They provide original research, just as journal articles, conference papers, and other literary works.
They could be the sole published works by authors who don't usually write for wide audiences or deal
with for-profit publishers. They are valuable for historical and biographical purposes since they provide
information about a person's early creative endeavours.
• Patents & Standards: A patent is a legal document that gives the creator the exclusive right to create
and market an invention for a predetermined amount of time. Standards are written agreements that
specify technical requirements or other exact criteria that must be followed consistently as rules,
guidelines, or definitions of qualities to guarantee that materials, products, processes, and services
are appropriate for their intended use.
• Institutional Repositories: A digital archive that is owned and managed at the departmental or
institutional level is known as the institutional repository. It is a tool for knowledge gathering, archiving,
and dissemination that promotes Scholarly communication.
• Databases: A database is a searchable collection of information. We can find different types of
databases in library like books database, journal database, pre print article database. Ex: DOAJ, DOAB,
arXive, IEEE, JSTORE

9. Informal/Unpublished channels of
Scholarly communication
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• Preprints: “Preprint” is a Preliminary version of a scholarly article that
researchers publish on an online platform known as a preprint. It will
post/publish on preprint servers before peer-review and publication in an
academic journal. Ex: arXiv.
• Websites: A website is a collection of web pages. We have lot of webpages for
scholarly communication. The goal is to provide scholarly information and
answers to your questions related to scholarly publications. Ex: blogs, forums,
linkedin, lisquiz.com.
• Blogs: A blog is a regularly updated website that provides insight on a specific
topic. The word blog is a combination of the words “web” and “log”. Originally, a
blog was just an online diary that people could use to keep track of their daily
lives online.
• E-Mails: Now a days, e-mail is one of the most popular method of digital
communication.
• Conversations:
• Invisible Colleges:

10. Conclusion
In this topic we talk about channels of
Scholarly communication i.e. formal
channels of scholarly communication as
well as informal channels scholarly
communication. Our next topic is scholarly
communication through scholarly journals,
journals vs scholarly journals and peer
review process in this unit 2.
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11. Thanks to all