Scholarly communication in networked environment: problems and prospects

Vimal kumar V. Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum

Scholarly communication

The peer reviewed literature published upon completion of research.

-Rowlands and Huntington

Scholarly communication is the method and route by which academic information is passed from author to the reader, via various intermediaries such as libraries and publishers.

-The Library Service, University College London

Functions of Scholarly Communication

Registration Certification Awareness Archiving Rewarding Herbert Van de Sompel

Problem Statement

Copyright High subscription rates Delays in getting print version Increasing number of journals Access of technology

Advantages of publishing in WWW

Low cost Fast publication Fast review process Easy distribution Multimedia support Easy update Hypertext More collaborative features

New scholarly publication models

Open access journals Institutional repositories Blog Podcasting Wiki

Open Access

Free availability of peer-reviewed literature on the public internet, permitting any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles.

Open access outlets Open access journals Institutional repositories

Open Access Journals

A journal which is freely available online worldwide and does not rely upon the traditional subscription based business model to generate revenue.

Institutional repositories

A publicly accessible repository (archive) where all the work published by researchers/authors affiliated with the university/academy can be posted online.

Blog

Blog, short for web log, an online, regularly updated journal or newsletter that is readily accessible to the general public by virtue of being posted on a website. Blogs typically report and comment on topics of interest to the author.

Features of blogging

Speedy feedback Facilitating connections between users Healthy discussions Free to the reader No need for a central publisher

Wiki

Wiki is a collaborative website whose content can be edited by anyone who has access to it.

It can be used to create a knowledge base encouraging collaboration of experts in a particular area.

Fetures Easy editing Collaborative platform for knowledge creation

PodcastPodcasting is delivering audio content to

iPods and other portable media players on demand, so that it can be listened to at the user’s convenience.

Advantages Very little investment Easy broadcasting On demand broadcast Low demand of bandwidth

Problems with scholarly communication in WWW

Community acceptance Funding Technical Competition and secrecy

New hopes

Cry for access of public funded research output

Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA). EC Open Access Petition

Open access in India Author addendums Growing number of open access journals

Thanks

Vimal kumar V

Asian School of Business

Technopark

Trivandrum