ScholarlyPublishing
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What is Scholarly Publishing?
The Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library of The George Washington University Medical Center provides a very good, succinct definition:
Scholarly publishing is the result of research from which scholarly writings are created to: 1) describe the research; 2) evaluate its reliability and reproducibility; 3) disseminate it through multiple channels; 4) preserve what has been done for future use. From this system, further inquiry and subsequent knowledge and understanding are created, which in turn result in additional communication among scholars.
Scholarly publishing generally takes the form of either articles appearing serialized, peer-reviewed journals, the format of scientific communications examined within the PALE modules; stand alone or serialized monographs, conference proceedings, and disciplinary or institutional repositories. Research journals have historically been, and to this day still are, published in print. Although nowadays almost all journals are accessed by their electronic versions.
Scholarly/Research Publishing Concepts
Archival literature ("minutes" of science)
