Scholarly Communication is broadly defined  as the cycle of formal and informal mechanisms through which research findings are utilized in the academic community.

Issues in scholarly communications may involve the creation, copyright, review, distribution, accessibility, and archiving of published and unpublished works of scholarship. The ways that economics and technological change impact scholarly publishing are also vital elements in the discussion of scholarly communications.

This web site is designed as a resource that will provide University of Miami faculty with more information about scholarly communications.
 

University of Miami Symposium on Scholarly Communication

UM hosted its first annual symposium in February 2002. Streaming video of the speakers as well as the PowerPoint presentation of one speaker can be found on the symposium web site. The second annual symposium is being planned for spring 2003.

University of Miami's 2002 Symposium on Scholarly Communications

International Initiatives on Scholarly Communications

• Association of Research Libraries, Office of Scholarly Communications
• Create Change: A Resource for Faculty and Librarian Action to Reclaim Scholarly Communication
• Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
• Tempe Principles for Emerging Systems of Scholarly Publishing

Background Reading About the Crisis in Scholarly Communication

• Articles from the Association of Research Libraries Newsletter
• Guide to the Free Online Scholarship Movement
• Scholarship & Scholarly Communication in the Electronic Age, an article by Stanley Chodorow in the January/February 2002 issue of Educause.

Staying Current with Issues in Scholarly Communications

• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography & Weblog
• Free Online Scholarship (FOS) News

University-based Web Sites about Scholarly Communications

• University of Connecticut, Scholarly Communication Crisis
• University of Kansas, Scholarly Communications and Library Collections
• University of North Carolina, Scholarly Communications Working Group
• University of Pittsburgh, Issues in Scholarly Communications
• University of Tennessee, Scholarly Communications Issues
• University of Virginia, Issues in Scholarly Information
• University of Washington