Abstract
This chapter sets the journals business in the larger context of scientific practice. Its starting point is the history of scientific journals up until the arrival of the Internet. The chapter discusses the work of Eugene Garfield and his ‘law of concentration’, identifying what he considered to be the ‘core’ of scientific research through citation analysis. The chapter goes on to explore the potential for a paradigm change in journal publishing, both in its business models and its modes of analysis of the significance of scholarly work. Central to these transformations has been the rise of a range of models of open access publishing.
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