Scholarly Communication in the Context of Digital Literacy: Navigation and Decision Making in a Complex Landscape

As digital technologies have come to dominate the conduct and dissemination of scholarship, seasoned and budding scholars alike may have little knowledge of what happens with the data that are gathered from their scholarly products, online profiles, and community platforms. Growing commercialization, mergers, buyouts, and venture capital investment lend credence to the idea of research results as “big data” to be mined and scholarly communication as “big business”. The scope of the issues that now govern the funding and sharing of knowledge is formidable and international. How does one even begin to understand what is needed to navigate and make decisions in such a complex environment? Not just a concern of faculty, these issues can have profound influence on student learning, academic services, and society at large. Scholarly communication is often viewed as a mechanistic and closed system; we should reframe it in a larger context and apply concepts of digital literacy and social justice

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