Paper short abstract:

This workshop aims to discuss the display of scientific publishing formats on research network websites. As a necessary tool for self-representation in the sense of science communication, these websites tell a story about what is understood to be a scholarly publishing format at a given time.

Paper long abstract:

Taking up one of the panel's questions about how formats other than the book or the journal article can play a role in the production of knowledge, I propose a workshop that aims to explore which rather non-scientific formats are increasingly understood as scientific resp. how they are transformed into scientific formats. We want to answer these questions by looking at the logic of organization and sorting of the formats found, as well as their specific form. The workshop is based on the assumption that, in addition to the book and the journal article, numerous popular formats have migrated into the scholarly publication system, but that in the process they are changing their form - becoming kind of scholarly. These formats may represent a new category in the scholarly publishing system that appears to be a hybrid of scholarly communication and science communication. Therefore, this perspective will also touch on the second question of the workshop: how formats that are not generally considered as means of scholarly knowledge expression can be imagined as such. To introduce the workshop, I will give a brief overview of the existing research on this topic before we delve into our examples by surfing the web and the web archive.