SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION MUST FLOURISH!

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SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION MUST FLOURISH!
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JUST IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT SCHOLARLY
COMMUNICATION.

• How would we learn about medical advances?
• How would we learn about threats to the
  environment, such as global warming?
• How would we learn about discoveries in deep
  space or in high energy physics?
• How would we be able to make rational economic
  and political decisions?
• The whole emphasis these days is on
  evidence-based policy-making where else would
  we get that evidence from?

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CONSIDER..

• Tea spoons
• or the study that showed that cities which had
  local radio stations that regularly broadcast
  blues music had a higher suicide rate than those
  that did not

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HERE ARE JUST A FEW MORE OF THE KEY PAPERS YOU
MIGHT HAVE MISSED..

• T.J. Pennings, College Mathematics Journal, 2003,
  34, 178-182 Do dogs know calculus?
• P. Davies, L. Lee, A. Fox and E. Fox, Archives of
  Diseases in Childhood, 2004, 89, 103-105 Could
  nursery rhymes cause violent behaviour?
• C.M. Fisher, Canadian Journal of Neurological
  Sciences, 1999, 26, 53-56 Phantom erection after
  amputation of penis
• G. Schmidt and U. Clement, Archives of Sexual
  behaviour, 1990, 19, 183-187 Does peace prevent
  homosexuality?

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MORE..

• S. Shim and J. Maggs, Psychology and Marketing,
  2005, 22, 649-668 A cognitive and behavioural
  hierarchical decision-making model of college
  students alcohol consumption, which showed that
  if a student goes to a bar intending to drink,
  then this is correlated with high alcohol
  consumption
• T. Hofer, H. Przymbel and S. Verleger, Paediatric
  and Perinatal Epidemiology, 2004, 18, 88-92 New
  evidence for the theory of the stork showed that
  birth rates outside hospitals was correlated with
  the size of the local stork population
• W. Strahle, M. Duffy and R.L. Day, Journal of
  consumer satisfaction, dissatisfaction and
  complaining behaviour, 1989, 2 The effect of
  lifestyle, sex roles and demographics on the
  complaining behaviour of New Zealand women

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WHY DO YOU NEED TO KEEP SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION
IN?

• Without it, excellent research such as that
  described will never be noticed
• Politicians will do what they want without having
  an informed debate about their policies
• Academics will have no excuse to attend
  conferences in Hawaii, the Caribbean or even
  Milton Keynes
• EDINA would lose most of its client base because
  without scholarly communication, there is no need
  for academic institutions

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• I REST MY CASE!