Scholarly Communication: What Everyone Needs to Know®

US: Oxford University Press, 2018. Paperback. Like New. The internet has transformed the ways in which scholars and scientists shar e their findings with each other and the world, creating a scholarly commun ication environment that is both more complex and more effective than it wa s just a few years earlier. "Scholarly communication" itself has become an umbrella term for the increasingly complex ecosystem of publications, platf orms, and tools that scholars, scientists, and researchers use to share the ir work with each other and with other interested readers. Scholarly Communication: What Everyone Needs to Know® offers an accessible overview of the current landscape, examining the state of affairs in the wo rlds of journal and book publishing, copyright law, emerging access models, digital archiving, university presses, metadata, and much more. Anderson d iscusses many of the problems that arise due to conflicts between the vario us values and interests at play within these systems: values that include t he public good, academic freedom, the advancement of science, and the effic ient use of limited resources. The implications of these issues extend far beyond academia. Organized in an easy-to-use question-and-answer format, this book provides a lively and helpful summary of some of the most important issues and developments in the world of scholarly communication - a world that affects our everyday lives far more than we may realize.