Scholarly Communications

It is a meeting for academicians and researchers to present and discuss their work. Together with academic or scientific journals, conferences provide an important channel for exchange of information between researchers.

It is a database of bibliographic records, an organized digital collection of references to published literature, including journal and newspaper articles, conference proceedings, research reports, patents, books, etc.

It is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as fora for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research.

A central mechanism for funding Open Access (OA) scholarly publishing, by charging a fee from authors willing to publish in an OA journal.