Date of this Version Library Philosophy and Practice 2011
Scholarly communication is the process by which scholars and
scientists conduct their research and make that research works
and results known to the world. It plays an important role for
the advancement of knowledge and a scholar's future prospect.
History is the witness about the changing process of scholarly
communication from oral representation to written, than to
print, and now to the electronic (on-line). In the formal
process of scholarly communication; researchers, basis on the
work of others, write up their own research findings and give
those research papers essentially without charge to publishers.
In turn, publishers manage the peer-review process, provide some
editorial improvements, format design, publication of the work,
and distribute that work widely by different media-online and
print. The journals are then purchased by libraries which
organize, provide access to, and preserve those journal
publications for future generations. Thus, t