Scholarly content's value seems to be derived in it's ability to communicate ideas and findings as a means to stimulate further investigation into factors related to the published content, which can lead addressing or proposing problems or questions that were not addressed in older literature. This furthers the scholarly practice of "iron sharpening iron" as a means to further the understanding of the discipline that the literature was written in, leading to potential innovations and other means of furthering the development of the discipline as well. In addition to this, scholarly content provides a paper trail of related works that can be consulted for furtherment of the discipline.