2. Scholarly communication is an umbrella term used to describe the process of academics, scholars and researchers sharing and publishing their research findings so that they are available to the wider academic community

3. It is the creation, transformation, dissemination and preservation of knowledge related to teaching, research and scholarly endeavours

5. In recent years there has been wide-spread belief that the traditional system for disseminating scholarship has reached a state of crisis.

7. Reasons for the Crisis: The exponential rise in the scholarly documents specially Journals. The financial resources of the institutions either stagnant (not increasing) or declining.