Abstract
Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community has been digitised and can be accessed in full on this website. All content is freely available on an open-access basis. Serials was published between 1988 and 2011. In 2012, the journal was retitled and is now published as Insights: the UKSG journal.
Highlights
Communicating the results of research is integral to expanding the frontiers of knowledge and understanding
The scholarly communication system has undergone a number of fundamental changes over the past few years, as researchers, publishers and librarians have embraced new technologies, and novel developments associated with the Internet, such as Web 2.0, will only reinforce this trend for the future
A component of the detailed modelling undertaken in the Research Information Network (RIN) report (RIN 2008) focusing on the total publication distribution cost by activity, of journal articles in the global scholarly communications process.The non-cash costs are generally incurred by academics such as peer review and are not remunerated as part of the scholarly communication cost
Summary
Communicating the results of research is integral to expanding the frontiers of knowledge and understanding. Articles in scholarly journals are by far the most important element in the scholarly communications process, and estimates suggest that journals account for roughly half of the global revenue of the academic and scientific information industry which includes monographs, conference proceedings and secondary publications. They are the focus of the RIN report: Activities, costs and funding flows in scholarly communications (May 2008), on which this paper is based. All sources and calculations for the figures here are discussed in detail in the original report
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