Changing paradigm in academic scholarly communication Abstract: The present article aimed to explore the changes took place over the period of time in scholarly communication process. The traditional scholarly communication process is compared and contrasted with open access driven scholarly communication process/model. Also it throws light on how the Web 2.0 has affected the way knowledge is created and disseminated. It also covers new avenues for peer review process, which is an integral part of scholarly communication process. The article ends with future of scholarly communication and the challenges ahead.

1. Company
LOGO
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

2. Scholarly Communication
Defined
creating,
disseminating
and preserving scientific knowledge
network of complex relationships between a number of
players - authors, editors, publishers, distributors,
librarians and most importantly consumers of scholarly
information

3. 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

4. Transformation of scholarly
communication
• Open Access Archives
• Open Access Publishing
• Other Means of Scholarly Communication:
Web 2.0

5. Traditional & Open access
models

6. 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

7. 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

8. References
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9. Thank You