Since 2013, many scholarly communication tools have come flooding in like an open source tidal wave. In the following blog post from LSE Impact Blog: 101 Innovations in Scholarly Communication: How researchers are getting to grip with the myriad of new tools, the authors discuss the sheer number of scholarly communication tools that have surfaced over the past few years and provide flowcharts and analysis (based on their own survey-based research) to attempt to deduce how researchers are taking advantage of these resources. The authors suggest, “the push for new tools comes from funders (e.g. demanding data archiving of Open Access) but also from researchers themselves that want to capitalize on the possibilities of the internet in collaborating.” The blog post also includes a database of the authors’ findings, which outlines in detail the functions and features of these communication tools.
