What is scholarly/academic publishing?
Scholarly publishing/academic publishing is defined as the following:
“A subfield of publishing which distributes academic research and scholarship.”
Scholarly Publishing has 4 Goals:
- Describe the research
- Evaluate its reliability and reproducibility
- Disseminate through many outlets and channels
- Preserve what has been accomplished in the past for future use.
Key Characteristics of Academic Publishing:
- Often published in academic journal article, book, or thesis form
- Often based on some form of peer review or editorial refereeing to qualify texts for publication
- Different from grey literature, which includes materials outside of traditional peer-reviewed journal articles and books (e.g., government reports, conference proceedings, working paper, and preprints
Scholarly Publishing Timeline
The following Publishing Timeline gives a historical context of some key events in the history of scholarly publishing from the time the first journal was established in 1665 to the emergence of Open Access in 2022 with the Budapest Open Access Initiative.
