Scholarly communication in networked environment: Problems and prospects.

Scholarly communication in networked environment: problems and prospects Vimal kumar V. Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum

Scholarly communication
The peer reviewed literature published upon completion of research.
-Rowlands and Huntington
Scholarly communication is the method and route by which academic information is passed from author to the reader, via various intermediaries such as libraries and publishers.
-The Library Service, University College London

Functions of Scholarly Communication
Registration
Certification
Awareness
Archiving
Rewarding
Herbert Van de Sompel

Problem Statement
Copyright
High subscription rates
Delays in getting print version
Increasing number of journals
Access of technology

Advantages of publishing in WWW
Low cost
Fast publication
Fast review process
Easy distribution
Multimedia support
Easy update
Hypertext
More collaborative features

New scholarly publication models
Open access journals
Institutional repositories
Blog
Podcasting
Wiki

Open Access
Free availability of peer-reviewed literature on the public internet, permitting any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles.
Open access outlets
Open access journals

Open Access Journals
A journal which is freely available online worldwide and does not rely upon the traditional subscription based business model to generate revenue.

A publicly accessible repository (archive) where all the work published by researchers/authors affiliated with the university/academy can be posted online.

Blog
Blog, short for web log, an online, regularly updated journal or newsletter that is readily accessible to the general public by virtue of being posted on a website. Blogs typically report and comment on topics of interest to the author.

Features of blogging
Speedy feedback
Facilitating connections between users
Healthy discussions
Free to the reader
No need for a central publisher

Wiki
Wiki is a collaborative website whose content can be edited by anyone who has access to it.
It can be used to create a knowledge base encouraging collaboration of experts in a particular area.
Fetures
Easy editing
Collaborative platform for knowledge creation

Podcast
Podcasting is delivering audio content to iPods and other portable media players on demand, so that it can be listened to at the user’s convenience.
Advantages
Very little investment
Easy broadcasting
On demand broadcast
Low demand of bandwidth

Problems with scholarly communication in WWW
Community acceptance
Funding
Technical
Competition and secrecy

New hopes
Cry for access of public funded research output
Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA).
EC Open Access Petition
Open access in India
Author addendums
Growing number of open access journals

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Scholarly communication in networked environment: Problems and prospects.

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