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Scholarly communication is in turmoil. It is not clear how scholarly publishers will cope with change
or if journals will even survive. That’s why it is important to provide some insight into scholarly
publishing now and in the future. The key issues confronting scholarly publishing include open
access (OA), peer review, institutional repositories,
multiple versions of articles, increasing author
awareness of copyright issues, archiving and preserving, and faster communication tools such as
blogs, Web sites, RSS feeds, and podcasts. The newer communication tools speed up communication
and bypass journals. In this environment, scholars may communicate in new ways and journals may
have a different role from the past, but documents of record are still essential to the business. |
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