The Internet, Scholarly Communication, and Collaborative Research

Libraries ◽  
2002 ◽  
pp. 45-58
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
The Internet

scholarly journals Faculty Perspective on Scholarly Communication

1997 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Field
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
The Internet ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Current State ◽  
Canadian Context ◽  
The World ◽  
Il Y A ◽  
State Of Affairs

Abstract: The means and method of scholarly communication are changing as new and faster forms of communication become accessible to scholars. The potential for electronic scholarly communication via the Internet and the World Wide Web to positively affect the current state of affairs is very good. It may provide the means to address the hegemonic tendencies of the large for-profit scholarly publishers. Many matters need to be addressed though. Some of these are: copyright and ownership of intellectual property; the methods used for assessing the work of scholars; development of the communications infrastructure, both within and among institutions; and provision of equipment and services to those in the scholarly community. This paper examines these issues in the Canadian context. Résumé: Les moyens et méthodes de communication savante sont en train de changer à mesure que des formes de communication nouvelles et plus rapides deviennent accessible aux chercheurs. La communication savante électronique à l'Internet et au World Wide Web a un très fort potentiel d'avoir un impact positif sur l'état actuel des choses. En effet, la communication électronique pourrait permettre aux chercheurs de contrebalancer les tendances hégémoniques des grandes maisons d'édition académiques à but lucratif. Il est nécessaire dans ce contexte d'adresser plusieurs questions. Parmi celles-ci, il y a : le droit d'auteur et l'appartenance de propriétés intellectuelles; les méthodes utilisées pour évaluer les ouvrages académiques; le développement d'une infrastructure pour la communication, autant au sein d'institutions qu'entre celles-ci; et la fourniture d'équipement et de services à la communauté savante. Cet article examine ces questions dans un contexte canadien.

scholarly journals Perverse incentives: How the reward structures of academia impede scholarly communication and good science

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Gowers
Keyword(s):  
Current System ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Good Science ◽  
Widespread Agreement ◽  
Perverse Incentives ◽  
Communication Practices

Watch the VIDEO here.There is widespread agreement that our practices of scholarly communication are a long way from being optimal, and that this has become particularly true in the last twenty years. In principle, the internet should make dissemination almost free and allow for new forms of communication such as "grey literature" and the sharing of data. And yet, while the internet has undoubtedly changed all our lives for the better, articles in conventional and extremely expensive journals continue to be the dominant means of communication, and it has proved to be very difficult to change the system to take advantage of the new opportunities. I shall discuss the various incentives that give the current system its robustness, and make a few suggestions for how they can be weakened. To do this I shall draw on my own experiences of campaigning for change, and also report on some important changes that have already taken place in the communication practices of mathematicians. 

scholarly journals Electronic Publication of Scholarly Information in Law: A View from the United States

2000 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 465-482 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Danner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
The United States ◽  
Information Environment ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Electronic Publication ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
The World ◽  
User Centered

This article examines the potential effects of the developing user-centered, networked information environment on scholarly communication in law. By “user-centered, networked information environment,” I mean the emerging environment for legal research and scholarship, in which most seekers and users of legal information will have ready desktop access to a networked computer and to applications that will allow them to communicate with colleagues around the world and enable them to retrieve increasing amounts of the information they need to be productive directly via the Internet, without needing to rely on locally held print sources.

scholarly journals A Peek into Their Mind? An Exploration of Links Between Offense-Supportive Statements and Behaviors among Men Who Sexually Exploit Children and Adolescents Online

2021 ◽  
pp. 0306624X2110135
Author(s):  
Sarah Paquette ◽  
Francis Fortin
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Sexual Offending ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Forensic Psychologists ◽  
Academic Researchers ◽  
Case Files ◽  
Behavioral Markers

While forensic psychologists have some access to their patients’ thoughts when deciding on a diagnosis or appraising risk, others, such as police investigators, must rely on physical evidence and behavioral markers to make sense of a crime. Studies showing that offense-supportive cognitions constitute a risk factor for sexual offending, including offenses that take place on the internet, highlight the need for some access to offenders’ thoughts. This exploratory study examines the associations between offense-supportive statements about the sexual exploitation of children and adolescents and proxy behaviors. As part of PRESEL, a collaborative research project between Québec provincial police and academic researchers, the case files of 137 men convicted of using child sexual exploitation material or committing child-luring offenses were analyzed. Results showed that many meaningful risk factors and sexual offending behavioral markers were associated with the cognitive themes Sexualization of children, Child as partner, Dangerous world, Entitlement, and Uncontrollability. The use of encryption was negatively associated with the cognition Virtual is not real while Internet is uncontrollable was associated with fewer contacts with minors over the internet. Findings are useful for understanding the psychological needs that should be targeted in treatment, as well as helping prioritize police workloads.

scholarly journals Scientific Publishing: Education as the Key Enabler for the Transition to Open Science

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Pagliaro
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Scientific Communication ◽  
Open Science ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Scientific Publishing ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Publishing Education ◽  
Young Researchers

After showing how the advent of the internet, in an almost opposite fashion to what happened to newspaper publishing, has led to further flourishing of the $25 billion scholarly publishing industry, I show how the unexpected expansion of preprints to all scientific disciplines beyond physics, mathematics and computer science is actually reshaping scientific communication at large and then, inevitably, scientific publishing. I thus provide arguments substantiating my viewpoint on why and how expanding the education of today’s students and young researchers to include modern scholarly communication will be instrumental for the transition to open science.

scholarly journals Publishing Scientific Articles in the Digital Era

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Pagliaro
Keyword(s):  
Peer Review ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Open Science ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Academic Journals ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Conventional Process ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Education Of Students ◽  
Young Researchers

In the digital era in which over 4 billion people regularly access the internet, the conventional process of publishing scientific articles in academic journals following peer review is undergoing profound changes. Following physics and mathematics scholars who started to publish their work on the freely accessible arXiv server in the early 1990s, researchers of all disciplines increasingly publish scientific articles in the form of freely accessible and fully citeable preprints before or in parallel to conventional submission to academic journals for peer review. The full transition to open science, I argue in this study, requires to expand the education of students and young researchers to include scholarly communication in the digital era.

scholarly journals Scientific Publishing: Education as the Key Enabler for the Transition to Open Science

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Pagliaro
Keyword(s):  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Scientific Communication ◽  
Open Science ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Annual Income ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Scientific Publishing ◽  
Publishing Education ◽  
Young Researchers

Originally created for facilitating scientific communication, the internet in principle makes scientific journals no longer necessary. Yet, in an almost opposite fashion to what happened to newspaper publishing, the $25 billion annual income scholarly publishing industry has further flourished following the advent of the internet. Expanding the education of today’s students and young researchers to include modern scholarly communication is the key requisite for the transition to open science.

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