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4 J. New Librarianship [i] (2019)

handle is hein.journals/jnwlibsh4 and id is 1 raw text is: Hip-Hop Librarianship for Scholarly
Communication: An Approach to
Introducing Topics
Arthur Boston
Murray State University
Abstract Hip-Hop music, business, distribution, and culture exhibit highly-comparable trends in the
scholarly communication and publication industry. This article discusses Hip-Hop artists and research
authors as content creators, each operating within marketplaces still adjusting to digital, online
connectivity. These discussions are intended for classroom use, where students may access their
existing knowledge framework of popular media and apply it to a new understanding of the scholarly
communication environment. Research instructors and librarians may discover new perspectives to
familiar issues through conversations with students engaging with this material in a novel way.
Keywords bibliometrics, data, fair use, grey literature, hip-hop, impact factor, institutional
repositories, open access, piracy, preprints, scholarly communication
This is an Open Access article distributed underthe terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use,
distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

JournalofNewLibrarianship, 4(2019) pp. 1-62 10.21173/newlibs/6/1

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