Scholarly Outreach and Outcomes: Sixth Bloomsbury Conference on E-Publishing and E-Publications

Scholarly communication, both formal and informal, is primarily communication between scholars, and specifically between scholars and their peers. SCHOLARLY OUTREACH AND OUTCOMES is concerned more with moves to make scholarship more accessible to those outside the ivory tower. This is in response to both internal and external pressures. The conference will examine how scholars, working directly and through publishers and librarians, are taking advantage of digital opportunities to make scholarship easily available to scholars in other fields, professionals outside the academy and the general public. It is also concerned with the related question of how research impacts the world outside the academy as knowledge which leads directly and indirectly to economic advantage.