Zines are often excluded from scholarly discourse despite their impact on communities because they fall outside the bounds of traditional publications.

Israeli historian Ilan Pappe wrote many scholarly works.

There are relics of the age before circulating libraries, there are fragments of the lettered store of some scholarly great-grandfather, and these, with a few odd numbers of magazines, a few primers and manuals, some sermons and novels, make up the ordinary library of an English household.

Scholarly as he is, he can't be relied on.

Translation is a scholarly discipline.

This is likely the first time that these collectives, and the Latinx zines movement, have received scholarly investigation.