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Changing paradigm in Academic Scholarly Communication

Dr. Sarika Sawant, Asst. Professor, SHPT School of Library Science

Changing paradigm in Academic Scholarly Communication

Dr. Sarika Sawant, Asst. Professor, SHPT School of Library Science

UGC Sponsored State level conference on Academic Libraries inthe Electronic Era (ALEE2012) Electronic Resource Development and Access

on 17th and 18th  January 2012

Scholarly Communication Defined

Scholarly Communication Defined

creating, creating,

disseminatingdisseminating

and preserving scientific knowledgeand preserving scientific knowledge

network of complex relationships between a number of players - authors, editors, publishers, distributors, librarians and most importantly consumers of scholarly information

Scholarly Communication in

Crisis

Scholarly Communication in

Crisis• Increasing control of scholarly journals industry

by the commercials firms • High cost of scholarly journals verses low

library budget• Shift from print to electronic form: the legal

framework • Battle of ownership verses access• Advent of open access publishing is a direct

threat to commercial publishers.• Growing awareness of utilization of money

generated from taxpayers

Transformation of scholarly communication

Transformation of scholarly communication

• Open Access Archives• Open Access Publishing• Other Means of Scholarly Communication:

Web 2.0

Traditional & Open access models

Traditional & Open access models

The essential differences between current mainstream scholarly publishing and Open

Access publishing

The essential differences between current mainstream scholarly publishing and Open

Access publishing

• The embargo period of article submission to its publication

• Traditional publishing mainly relies on commercial indexing services

• There are no consortia or negotiation or intermediaries

• Cost• Open access publishing is dominated by mainly

science and technology related subjects

Scholarly communication: Web 2.0

Scholarly communication: Web 2.0

• Author has a wide range of choice such as wikis, blogs, Knol ………..

• Rating services - Amazon, Digg replaces validation process

• Journal articles can be shared and discovered using Social bookmarking services such as Delicious

• Jointly writing of research reports

ReferencesReferences

• Ball, R. (2011). The Scholarly Communication of the Future: From Book Information to Problem Solving. Publishing Research Quarterly 27(1–12)

• Fidishun, D. (2010). The paradigm shift in scholarly communication: will publications perish? Retrieved July 25, 2011, from http://www.personal.psu.edu/dxf19/blogs/dolores_list_of_cfps/2010/03/the-paradigm-shift-in-scholarly-communication-will-publications-perish.html

• Kwasik, H., & Fulda, P.O. (2005). Open Access and Scholarly Communication -- A Selection of Key Web Sites. Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 43, Retrieved August11, 2011, from http://www.istl.org/05-summer/internet.html

• Menefee, D. (n.d.) Web 2.0 and scholarly publishing. Retrieved July 9, 2011, from http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/lcn/0504/lcn050405.html

• Nikam, K., & Babu H. (2009). Moving from script to science 2.0 for scholarly communication. Webology, 6(1), Article 68. Retrieved June 25, 2011, from http://www.webology.org/2009/v6n1/a68.html

• Sawant, S.S. (2010). Institutional repository initiatives in India: a status report. PhD thesis dissertation. SNDT Women’s University.

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