Patrick Gamsby

The Discourse of Scholarly Communication (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Discourse of Scholarly Communication examines the place and purpose of modern scholarship and its dialectical relationship with the ethos of 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978798014
• Artikelnr.: 74833468

Autorenporträt

Patrick Gamsby is scholarly communications librarian at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Inhaltsangabe

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