Scholarly publishing began in the 15th century with the invention of the printing press and moveable type by Gutenberg. In the 17th century, Henry Oldenburg founded the first scientific journal and served as its editor and commercial publisher. Publishers help improve science and health communities by organizing peer review processes, editing and formatting manuscripts, marketing publications, and managing financial and legal aspects to disseminate scholarly work.

1. Introduction to Scholarly
Publishing
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Steven Ottogalli
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s.ottogalli@elsevier.com

2. Thought Question
• What does a publisher actually do?
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3. Objectives
• How did scholarly publishing start?
• What do publishers do?
• How do publisher contributions help improve
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the science and health communities?
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4. How did scholarly publishing start?