Scholarship, Scholarly Publishing, and Scholarly Communication
(Part 1)

Title page of first volume (1665) of the Philosophical Transactions, one of the earliest scholarly journals. Image by Stefan Janusz, shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (CC BY 4.0).
Topics will include:
- Introductions and overview
- Research vs. scholarship vs. scholarly publishing vs. scholarly communication
- What counts as a scholarly contribution?
- Common types of scholarly journal articles
- What is the scholarly record? How do works “enter” the scholarly record? (In-class reading: What is the ‘the scholarly record’?)
- Persistent identifiers in scholarly communication
Assignments for June 5:
- Review course site and syllabus.
- If you don’t already have one, create a CUNY Academic Commons account.
- Join course group. (Note: The course site is public, but the course group is private, only visible to those enrolled in the course.)
- Respond to all Session 1 prompts in group forum.
Readings for June 5:
Buranyi, S. (2017, June 27). Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science? The Guardian.
Fyfe, A., Coate, K., Curry, S., Lawson, S., Moxham, N., & Rostvik, C. M. (2017). Untangling academic publishing: A history of the relationship between commercial interests, academic prestige and the circulation of research [Report].
Chen, G., Posada, A., & Chan, L. (2019). Vertical Integration in Academic Publishing: Implications for Knowledge Inequality. In L. Chan & P. Mounier (Eds.), Connecting the Knowledge Commons—From Projects to Sustainable Infrastructure: The 22nd International Conference on Electronic Publishing – Revised Selected Papers (pp. 15-40). OpenEdition Press. (PDF of full book available on Academia.edu)