Scholarly communication: a discipline that should be promoted

Scholarly Communication is the name given to a wide field of activities related to the different ways in which the authors of academic works publish and disseminate their results. It includes tasks whose connections to this publication are not only direct, but mutually influenced. These are the task...

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Autores: Codina, Lluís, Morales-Vargas, Alejandro, Pedraza-Jiménez, Rafael, Cortiñas Rovira, Sergi
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repositorio:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/56297
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/56297
http://dx.doi.org/10.33732/ixc/13/01schola
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Scholarly communication
Scholarly publishing
Academic journals
Academic databases
Open Science
University Libraries
Descrição
Resumo:Scholarly Communication is the name given to a wide field of activities related to the different ways in which the authors of academic works publish and disseminate their results. It includes tasks whose connections to this publication are not only direct, but mutually influenced. These are the tasks of dissemination, treatment, analysis, and information retrieval, such as those carried out by databases and other agents. But the issue goes even further and other activities must be added, equally interconnected, such as preservation and increased visibility, along with specialized actions carried out by university libraries. It is concluded that academic communication, despite its breadth and diversity (or precisely because of it), should be studied by a unified discipline that, thanks to a holistic vision, helps to overcome its main problems. This paper presents some of these problems and defends the need for both the field of activities itself and the discipline that studies them to receive a clearer and more determined impulse.