Paradigm change in scientific communication

  • Nancy Diana Gómez Universidad de Buenos Áires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales
  • Olga Margarita Arias Universidad de Buenos Áires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales
DOI: https://doi.org/10.34096/ics.i6.984
Keywords: Open archives, Scholarly communication, Serials, Technological innovation

Abstract

The current pattern of scholarly publishing goes through times of dramatic changes. The model of open archives is presently being developed in several central countries. The aim of this initiative is to facilitate the efficient dissemination of scholarly information, building global virtual archives of scientific literature, with free and irrestricted access through Web servers. The roots of this remarkable improvement lie so much on technological developments in computer science and telecommunications, as well as on the need to change the traditional scientific communication model. The delay in transferring research results and the ever increasing cost of scholarly journals is perceived as an obstacle in the effective dissemination of scientific results, and, therefore, to the progress of science. Three initiatives are sketched, being implemented at present in the USA, who have pioneered this new model from the first e-print archive in Los Alamos National Laboratory, in 1991.

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Published
2004-06-01
How to Cite
Gómez, N. D., & Arias, O. M. (2004). Paradigm change in scientific communication. Información, Cultura Y Sociedad, (6), 93-102. https://doi.org/10.34096/ics.i6.984
Issue
No 6 (2002)
Section
Professional interest

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