Once the proposal has been approved or grant monies awarded and research completed, scholars are obliged to share their research with their colleagues. For this reason, no research proposal or research design effort is complete without carefully thinking about how to disseminate the proposed research. Indeed, many grant proposals require that the researcher clearly identify her/his research dissemination strategy. Traditional forms of scholarly communication include oral presentations, posters,

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... conference papers/proceedings, research articles, research notes, and monographs. In addition to traditional outlets, emerging venues-many associated with the Internet-are now recognized as intellectually rigorous and credible forms of research dissemination. Finally, the prominence of a new form of research dissemination under the rubric of outreach dissemination is growing rapidly.