Session 2 (June 5)

Scholarship, Scholarly Publishing, and  Scholarly Communication
(Part 2)

Graphic showing Elsevier's launch and acquisition of products that span the entire research production process, including ScienceDirect, Mendeley, SSRN, PlumX, Pure, bepress, and others.

Elsevier Presence Throughout the Research Lifecycle. From Chen, G., Posada, A., & Chan, L. (2019). Vertical Integration in Academic Publishing: Implications for Knowledge Inequality. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

Topics will include:

  • Scholarship as truth
  • Scholarship as a “good”
  • Profit motive in scholarly publishing
  • Finding articles via GC’s Mina Rees Library

Assignments for June 7:

  • No assignments other than readings below.

Readings/viewings for June 7:

Deakin Library. (2020, July 9). What is peer review? [Brief video].

Fyfe, A. Peer review: Not as old as you might think. (2015, June 25). Times Higher Education (THE). Available via Internet Archive.

Lovejoy, T. I., Revenson, T. A., & France, C. R. (2011). Reviewing Manuscripts for Peer-Review Journals: A Primer for Novice and Seasoned Reviewers. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 42(1), 1–13.

Anti-Racist Scholarly Reviewing Practices: A Heuristic for Editors, Reviewers, and Authors. (2021).

Kenyon, C. (2022). Peer review in peril: Is it time to review the review? Cosmos.

Optional (good to skim to get a sense of alternatives to double-anonymous peer review): Ross-Hellauer, T. (2017). What is open peer review? A systematic review. F1000Research, 6(588).