The Evolving Scholarly Record

OCLC Research has released The Evolving Scholarly Record.

Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

Here's an excerpt:

Key highlights:

  • A confluence of trends is accelerating changes to the scholarly record's content and stakeholder roles.
  • Scholarly outcomes are contextualized by materials generated in the process and aftermath of scholarly inquiry.
  • The research process generates materials covering methods employed, evidence used, and formative discussion.
  • The research aftermath generates materials covering discussion, revision, and reuse of scholarly outcomes.
  • The scholarly record is evolving to have greater emphasis on collecting and curating context of scholarly inquiry.
  • The scholarly record's stakeholder ecosystem encompasses four key roles: create, fix, collect, and use.
  • The stakeholder ecosystem supports thinking about how roles are reconfigured as the scholarly record evolves.

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Author: Charles W. Bailey, Jr.

Charles W. Bailey, Jr.