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SCHOLARLY
COMMUNICATION MUST
FLOURISH!
JUST IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT
SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION…….
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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?
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…..
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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?”
MORE…..
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S. Shim and J. Maggs, Psychology and Marketing, 2005, 22, 649668 “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”
WHY DO YOU NEED TO KEEP
SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION IN?
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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!