The author draws on Boyer’s (1996) conception of the ‘scholarship of engagement’ and argues that this form of scholarship is characterizes by a number of overlapping practices. Based on a literature review, interview data and web searches the author develops a taxonomy of different approaches to the scholarship of engagement: public scholarship, participatory research, community partnerships, public information networks, and civic literacy scholarship. While overlapping, each of these practices has unique theoretical underpinnings, addresses different types of problems and employs different methods.