Conclusion and Invitation
From Establishing a Research Agenda for Scholarly Communication
When reviewed collectively, these issues highlight the wide range of challenges and opportunities that invite an active response from the community. The themes presented here begin to frame a far reaching research agenda, but are open to discussion, expansion, review and action. Specific research possibilities can be refined, extended, or combined, and, ideally, prioritized and pursued through individual or collective effort.
Acknowledging the limitations of this singular brainstorming effort and the way it is reported here, we strongly encourage community efforts that:
- Refine or expand the need for research, important issues and possible projects;
- Identify additional articles and reports that collectively form a knowledge base from which the research agenda emerges more clearly;
- Suggest ways to conduct the research;
- Volunteer to participate or collaborate in a specific research initiative;
- Propose additional avenues of distribution for this report;
- Leverage this report in additional discussions of a research agenda to inform strategic planning and action for the evolution of scholarly communication.
Post your comments directly for public view at http://www.acrl.ala.org/scresearchagenda or if you prefer your comments to be kept confidential, send them to ACRL Scholarly Communication Committee co-chairs John Ober at [1] and Joyce Ogburn at [2].
