Contents: I. Academic Education, Research and Development: 1. Searching New Pedagogy: Teaching History of Architecture in Architecture Institutes. 2. Analysis of Current Internship Practice and its Relevance with Curriculum: A Case Study of Architecture School. 3. A Classical Discourse of Research Methodology from Philosophical Standpoint: Need to Know to Claim Knowledge. 4. Orbit of Information in [mis] Information Era. 5. Intellectual Infrastructure Development in the Era of Information Society. 6. Social Engineering: Questioning the Human Security?. II. Scholarly Communication: 7. Scholarly Communication Cycle: SWOT Analysis. 8. Authorship and Collaboration pattern in the field of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University: A study. 9. Publication Trend of Biochemistry Research in India: A Scientometric Study. 10. Scientometric Analysis with Special Reference to the Publications Indexed in “SCOPUS” on “rTMS” during 2008 to 2017. 11. A Bibliometric Study of Citations in Ph.D Theses on Mechanical Engineering Open-Access Publishing, Copyright and Ethics. 12. Quantitative Analysis of Open Access Publications of CSIR-IICT: A Case Study. 13. Awareness of Open Access Scholarly Publications among Science Faculty members in selected Universities of Karnataka State. 14. Open Source Tools for Information Visualization: A Comparative Study. 15. Impact of OA Policies on Scholarly Publishing in the Technical University Libraries of Odisha. 16. Copyright for E-learning: A Recent Fair dealing issues in Today’s Learning System. 17. Is research in India without Glitches? Evidences of some corrupt practices. 18. How Predatory Publishers are corrupting the Open Access Model? Academic Library and Preservation Facilitations. 19. Design and Implementation of Digital Asset Management System in Academic Libraries. 20. College Librarians’ Perception of Preservation of Library Documents in the Aided Arts and Science Colleges Affiliated to the Bharathidasan University. 21. Analytical Study on Preservation and Conservation Issues and Techniques in selected Technical Universities of Odisha. 22. Preparation, Proceed and Review of preservation of Digital Library. 23. User Awareness on Innovative Library Facilities at Kakatiya University: A Survey. Academic education, research and development intensify the nation socially and fiscally competitive. Institutions have greater role to enhance their intellectual infrastructure facilitations to help in the process of building an institutional academic and research culture through means of scholarly communication and publication. This booklet “Scholarly Communication, Open-access Publishing and Ethics” (SCOPE-2018) covers various papers of peer-reviewed and presented them in the International Conference on SCOPE-2018 held at SPA Vijayawada during 25 - 26 October 2018. Indeed, these papers are divided into four important subject areas viz. academic research and development; scholarly communication; open access publishing, copyright and ethics; and academic library, preservation facilitations. Part one, mainly focused on academic and research related areas. These areas are new pedagogy for teaching, curriculum development, a case study of current internship practice, research methodology from philosophical standpoint, information, intellectual infrastructure development and social engineering and human security. Part two of the volume, having papers of scholarly communication and its cycle process, publications trend especially in biochemistry research in India, collaborative authorship, scientometric, bibliometric citation and analysis. Part three of the volume covered an open-access (OA) publishing, copyright and ethics. In which, there are papers mainly discussed about OA publications, tools, polices, copyright and corrupt practices including predatory journal publications. Part four, focused about academic libraries and preservation facilitations. It consisted of papers having topics of academic libraries and their digital asset management.