Scholarly Communication in Science and Engineering Research in Higher Education

Scholarly Communication in Science and Engineering Research in Higher Education offers solutions for acquiring research and peer-reviewed publications despite the current financial constraints facing academic libraries today. Experts in the academic community provide cost-effective alternatives to commercial publications to offset increased journal prices and smaller library budgets. This book discusses recent technological innovations that can maintain the needs of researchers who need to stay on the cutting edge of science and technology as well as scholars who must be published and peer-reviewed in order to achieve tenure and promotion. This important text will be helpful to librarians, science and engineering faculty and students, researchers, and publishers.