Spanning boundaries, transforming fields: The impact of community networks in scholarly communications

摘要

This paper shares observations from the Educopia Institute about the impetus, process, and impact of building and sustaining targeted cross-sector collaborative networks. Based on more than 10 years of work with scholars, librarians, archivists, curators, and publishers in various fields, the paper opens with a quick overview of Educopia’s community incubation model and the rationale for our explicit emphasis on cross-sector collaborative networks. It then shares case studies that illustrate how alignment serves as a tool to magnify the impact of investments made in the area of knowledge dissemination and scholarly communications. It closes with an overview of resources and a model Educopia Institute is developing to scale the lessons we’ve learned in community incubation that we believe will help more communities achieve the impact they seek.