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The Discourse of Scholarly Communication

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The Discourse of Scholarly Communication recontextualizes the place and purpose of scholarship within the context of the Enlightenment. Patrick Gamsby argues that while Enlightenment/enlightenment is often used in the mottos of numerous academic institutions, its historical, social, and philosophical elements are largely obscured. Using a theoretical lens, Gamsby revisits the ideals of the Enlightenment alongside the often contradictory issues of disciplinary boundaries, access to research, academic labor in the production of scholarship (author, peer reviewer, editor, and translator), the interrelationship of form and content (lectures, textbooks, books, and essays), and the stewardship of scholarship in academic libraries and archives. It is ultimately argued that for the betterment of the scholarly communication ecosystem and the betterment of society, anti-Enlightenment rules of scholarship such as 'publish or perish' should be dispensed with in favor of the formulation of a New Enlightenment.
Patrick Gamsby is scholarly communications librarian at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Enlightenment Chapter 2: Interconnectedness of Knowledge Chapter 3: The Production of Scholarship Chapter 4: The Dialectic of Form and Content Chapter 5: The Different Spaces of Libraries and Archives Conclusion Bibliography About the Author
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