Abstract
Like the revolution in scientific communication that took place in the nineteenth century, today's information revolution is driven by new technology and a sharp decrease in the costs of the distribution of scientific knowledge. Digital media and networked communications, the analogues of cheap
Highlights
Like the revolution in scientific communication that took place in the nineteenth century, today’s information revolution is driven by new technology and a sharp decrease in the costs of the distribution of scientific knowledge
New channels of communication dedicated to different kinds of research output have emerged to deal with the growth in the numbers of researchers and the scale and variety of the products of their work
Scholars could be guided towards findings that are of most interest to them. The effectiveness of such approaches is tightly linked with the extent to which the literature is freely available without limitation on reuse—the vision of open access and an important part of the revolution that is underway
Summary
Like the revolution in scientific communication that took place in the nineteenth century, today’s information revolution is driven by new technology and a sharp decrease in the costs of the distribution of scientific knowledge. Coupled with an incentive system in science that places heavy emphasis on publication in established journals, the incumbent publishing system has tended to maintain the status quo at the expense of new approaches.
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