I periodici elettronici e la comunicazione scientifica: bisogni, problemi e proposte [Italian] = Electronic Publications and the scholarly community: needs, problems and proposals [English]

Gargiulo, Paola I periodici elettronici e la comunicazione scientifica: bisogni, problemi e proposte [Italian] = Electronic Publications and the scholarly community: needs, problems and proposals [English]. AIDAInformazioni : rivista di Scienze dell'informazione, 1999, vol. 17, n. 3-4. [Journal article (Unpaginated)]

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English abstract

The transition of scientific journals from print to electronic open new sceneries, offers new opportunities, but also creates uncertainties, brings new challenges, requires new attitudes. My paper intends to reflect on the meaning of this transition for the scholarly community: on the needs which it satisfies and the expectations which it creates, but also on the problems which it brings. In particular, the aim of the paper is to underline the necessity – from the scholarly community – of a bigger awareness of the problems and of an activer participation of universities, research institutions and researchers, as they are authors, in the production, circulation and archiving of scholarly information at reasonable costs. If a bigger consciousness by authors is joined by a bigger cooperation between the various partners, scholarly communication will be advantaged. Commercial electronic publishing predominates in a market in which the other partners – in Europe more than in the US – are quite passive. But maybe the moment of the 'revolt' (which must be a cooperative one) has come...

Italian abstract

La transizione dei periodici scientifici dalla versione cartacea a quella elettronica apre da un lato nuovi orizzonti, offre nuove opportunità, ma d’altro crea incertezze, pone delle nuove sfide, chiede atteggiamenti e comportamenti nuovi. La mia relazione intende soffermarsi sul significato di questa transizione per la comunità scientifica: sui bisogni che soddisfa e le aspettative che crea, ma anche sui problemi che pone. In particolare, lo scopo della relazione è di evidenziare la necessità da parte della comunità scientifica, di una maggiore consapevolezza delle problematiche e di una partecipazione più attiva delle università, degli enti di ricerca e dei ricercatori, in quanto autori, nella produzione, nella circolazione e nell’archiviazione dell’informazione scientifica a costi ragionevoli. Se ad una maggiore consapevolezza degli autori si accompagna anche una maggiore cooperazione tra i vari partners la comunicazione scientifica non potrà che avvantaggiarsene. L’editoria elettronica commerciale predomina in un mercato che vede ancora gli altri partner, in Europa più che negli Stati Uniti, piuttosto inerti e passivi. Ma forse il momento della “riscossa” (che non può che essere all’insegna della cooperazione) è arrivato…

Item type: Journal article (Unpaginated)
Keywords: E-journals, scientific communication, electronic resources, archiving, copyright, SPARC, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, electronic publishing, scholarly community Comunicazione scientifica, periodici elettronici, risorse elettroniche, archiviazione permanente, editoria elettronica
Subjects: H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HN. e-journals.
E. Publishing and legal issues. > ED. Intellectual property: author's rights, ownership, copyright, copyleft, open access.
F. Management.
Depositing user: Maria Cristina Bassi
Date deposited: 17 Dec 2003
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 11:57
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/4352

References

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