New iniciatives in biomedical scholarly communication: removing barriers, enhancing progress

Sieving, Pamela C. and Liesegang, Thomas J. New iniciatives in biomedical scholarly communication: removing barriers, enhancing progress. Cadernos de Biblioteconomia, Arquivística e Documentação, 2005, vol. 2005, n. 1, pp. 34-48. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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English abstract

Objective: To review scholarly communication and publication as they have developed in the biomedical academic and research communities; identify changes and new models being explored and implemented; and explore current challenges and new opportunities. Results: We review traditional scholarly communication and publication, as well as factors driving exploration of new models: unsustainable publication and distribution costs; new technologies which offer solutions to existing problems as well as new opportunities for communication of research results; attention to copyright and intellectual property regulations; demands by legislators, patients and researchers for easier, less costly access to research results; and globalization, which creates both new demands for access to information from developing countries and expands collaborative opportunities between developing and developed. Conclusions: No single new model has yet emerged, nor is a single one likely to be the resolution to all issues confronting us today. Researchers and librarians have new opportunities and obligations to shape and control access to biomedical knowledge and new research findings.

Portuguese abstract

Objectivo: Rever a forma como a comunicação e a publicação científica se desenvolveram na área da investigação biomédica, identificar as mudanças e os modelos novos que estão a ser explorados e implementados, e explorar os actuais desafios e oportunidades. Resultados: É revista a comunicação e a publicação científica tradicional, assim como os factores que conduzem à exploração de modelos novos: custo excessivo na publicação, na distribuição; novas tecnologias que oferecem soluções para problemas existentes e novas oportunidades para a comunicação dos resultados da pesquisa; a atenção ao copyright e às regras da propriedade intelectual; reivindicações pelos vários intervenientes de um acesso mais fácil e menos oneroso aos resultados de pesquisa; e a globalização que cria exigências no que diz respeito ao acesso à informação nos países em desenvolvimento permitindo oportunidades de colaboração recíproca. Conclusões: Nenhum modelo novo emergiu ainda, que seja a solução para toda esta problemática. Os investigadores e os bibliotecários têm oportunidades e obrigações novas para dar forma e controlar o acesso às novas descobertas e ao conhecimento biomédico.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: ACESSO LIVRE; REPOSITÓRIOS INSTITUCIONAIS; INVESTIGAÇÃO BIOMÉDICA; PUBLICAÇÃO BIOMÉDICA; COMUNICAÇÃO CIENTÍFICA; ACESSO À INFORMAÇÃO; PROPRIEDADE INTELECTUAL; EDIÇÃO ELECTRÓNICA; free access to information; institutional repositories; biomedical research; biomedical publishing; scientific community; intellectual property; electronic publishing
Subjects: E. Publishing and legal issues. > EB. Printing, electronic publishing, broadcasting.
H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HS. Repositories.
B. Information use and sociology of information > BG. Information dissemination and diffusion.
Depositing user: Ana Paula Sequeiros
Date deposited: 27 Aug 2007
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:09
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/10310

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