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“Scholarly communication is the system through which research and other scholarly writings are created, evaluated for quality, disseminated to the scholarly community, and preserved for future use. The system includes both formal means of communication, such as publication in peer-reviewed journals, and informal channels, such as electronic mailing lists.” (ACRL, 2003)

Scholarly communication casts a wide net, encompassing, among other topics:

•  research & writing
•  the practice of peer review
•  evaluation of journals for integrity and impact
•  the economics of publishing
•  institutional repositories
•  open access & subscription-based materials
•  open educational resources
•  copyright
•  data management.

Scholarly communication is often depicted as a cycle:

Scholcomm Cycle by ACRL is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

In scholarly communication, students:

• Consume scholarly writings 

• Acquire information literacy skills

• Produce scholarly writings 

• Publish/share scholarly writings

• Deposit their scholarly writings for archiving

In scholarly communication, faculty members:

• Consume scholarly writings in their discipline

• Produce scholarly writings

• Manage research data

• Publish/share scholarly writings 

• Deposit their scholarly writings for archiving

• Evaluate and provide peer-review to scholarly writings

• Request and suggest scholarly resources for inclusion in the library collection

• Assign readings and textbooks to their students

• Assess and curate their scholarly writings for the purposes of promotion and tenure