WHAT IS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION?

Scholarly communication is a cyclical process, which provides an ongoing production of scholarly articles, reports, monographs, conference proceedings and many other scholarly works from research institutions, universities and other tertiary institutions.
Content is generated from research experiments, projects and other scholarly activities.  It is scrutinised through a rigid peer-review process before being disseminated via conventional scholarly publishers or via new models of Open Access publishing.  It is then purchased or acquired by libraries, subscribers, researchers and other information users.  It is important that scholary knowledge preserved, discovered and made accessible for a wide readership.  This can lead to the generation of new content and knowledge, and in the process, start a new iterative process or lifecycle of scholarly communication. 
There are different stakeholders and each plays an important role in the scholarly communication process, e.g. authors, publishers, libraries, researchers, tertiary institutions, government departments, research councils and funding agencies.

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