Purpose: To review the trend in academic libraries toward including scholarly communication, and by extension, electronic publishing, as part of their core mission, using the Cornell University Library as an

Throughout the years scholars have developed and used a variety of means for disseminating their work. This article examines journals as a means of disseminating scholarly work. Initially, it examines the history and nature of paper journals. Also it discusses electronic journals and their promise for a substantial increase in the effectiveness of scholarly communication. Finally, it describes ...

This contribution presents the concept and analyses the path of diffusion of an innovative publishing idea that originated in one speciality in physics and is now about to spread into other fields, including the social sciences. We discuss the conditions of success and fostering as well as hampering factors on the road for what we consider to be a truly revolutionary concept of presenting the s...

Bibliometric methods for the analysis of highly specialized subjects are increasingly investigated and debated. Information and assessments well-focused at the specialty level can help make important decisions in research and innovation policy. This paper presents a novel method to approximate the specialty to which a given publication record belongs. The method partially combines sets of key v...

With this paper, we hope to foster debate about the place of open access (OA) in scholarly publishing. After providing a background to OA’s development and current state, we examine some of the accusations leveled against it: that OA publishers are predatory, that OA is too expensive, and that self-depositing papers in OA repositories will bring about the end of scholarly publishing. After cont...

Preparing the books to read every day is enjoyable for many people. However, there are still many people who also don't like reading. This is a problem. But, when you can support others to start reading, it will be better. One of the books that can be recommended for new readers is scholarly communications in china hong kong japan korea and taiwan. This book is not kind of difficult book to rea...

This paper presents major findings from a research project that attempts to systematically compare Web-based and print-journal-based scholarly communication, highlighting some considerable differences between the two formats of communication, which provide evidence for the rise of a “two-tier” scholarly communication system. Implications for Open Access are also discussed.

BACKGROUND One of the key priorities of a scholarly teacher is to demonstrate the ability to contribute to the advancement of knowledge, and transformation of new knowledge into applications that can be of value to the profession and the teaching/learning community. However, successful contribution to a scholarly activity such as publication is challenging particularly when academics lack confi...

Journals and scholars build their reputation on citations. An array of citation measures has been developed, including citation counts for the individual scholar. Yet, over 50 activities that contribute to reputation building can be identified across five areas of scholarly activity: research, integration, application, teaching, and co-creation. In the past ten years new platforms have merged t...

Case write and experience are very popular in the course teach, this paper presents the history of the CGU (Chang Gung University)-FPG (Formosa Plastics Group) multiple-case development project and benefits of the C2C (College-to-Conglomerate) case development approach. The approach provided benefits that were seldom available to individual case development. First, strong supports in data avail...