LibGuides: What is Scholarship?: Community

Larger Purpose for Each Type of Community

Disciplinary = Search for Truth

Scholastic = Quality Control

Institutional = Financing & Personal Networking

Communities

Discipline -- "a field of study"

-- Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Broad Disciplines -- [both old and new]
- Annual Reviews
Sub-Disciplines -- [finding a place within the discipline that suits your sensibility]
Interdisciplinary -- [results from individual initiatives, but sometimes gets institutionalized]
- Association for Interdisciplinary Studies

Scholarship -- "the character, qualities, activity, or attainments of a scholar : learning"
"a fund of knowledge and learning"
-- Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Here is a partial list of issues a person needs to pay at least some attention to in order to become fluent as a scholar.

Library Collections

Archives and Special Collections

Book Publishing

Journal Publishing

"Predatory" Publishers & Conferences

Grant Writing

Publication Ethics

Research Data Management

Promoting Publications

Tracking Publications

Bibliographic Management
Automate your process for documenting sources and citing them.

BrowZine Web This link opens in a new window
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A browsable newsstand of the library’s online journals. Easily discover, read, and monitor the key journals in your field.
A version that is an app for mobile devices is also available.
SEE
http://research.moreheadstate.edu/browzine
Cabells This link opens in a new window
Cabells has set itself the task of policing predatory publishing. Faculty and students seeking to publish their work in scholarly journals can use Cabells to assess the stature and integrity of the journals they are considering. The Predatory Reports list allows a researcher to see which journals are violating best practices and specifically what they are doing wrong..
Subject Coverage:
accounting, economics and finance, management, marketing, educational curriculum and methods, education psychology and administration, educational technology and library science, psychology and psychiatry, computer science and business information systems, health administration, nursing, mathematics, astronomy, biological science, chemistry, geology, oceanography, physics

Dates of Coverage:
recent editions
Update Frequency:
at least annually
Size:
more than 11,000 journals in the Journalytics database
more than 15,000 journals in the Predatory Reports database
SAGE Research Methods Online This link opens in a new window
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Offers comprehensive information on research methodology primarily in the social sciences (but in other disciplines as well) taken from hundreds of publications by SAGE.
Subject Coverage:
research methodology
Dates of Coverage:
unknown
Update Frequency:
annually (in December)
Size:
more than 100,000 pages of content

Institution -- "an established organization or corporation (such as a bank or university) especially of a public character."

-- Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Examples:

"A Framework for Intelligence Based on Grid Cells in the Neocortex"
Affiliated with a corporation (not a university)