Scholarly Communication

TL;DR

This chapter examines the evolving role of scholarly communication, highlighting technological impacts on publication processes, dissemination, and archiving, and discusses future directions in scientific publishing.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of how new information technologies are transforming scholarly communication and publishing practices.

Findings

Technologies have changed editorial and dissemination processes.

Development of open access and digital archives.

Future evolution of scientific publishing is discussed.

Abstract

The chapter tackles the role of scholarly publication in the research process (quality, preservation) and looks at the consequences of new information technologies in the organization of the scholarly communication ecology. It will then show how new technologies have had an impact on the scholarly communication process and made it depart from the traditional publishing environment. Developments will address new editorial processes, dissemination of new content and services, as well as the development of publication archives. This last aspect will be covered on all levels (open access, scientific, technical and legal aspects). A view on the possible evolutions of the scientific publishing environment will be provided.