Scholarly communication in networked environment: problems and prospects

Vimal Kumar, V. Scholarly communication in networked environment: problems and prospects., 2007 . In University of Calicut LIS Conference (UCALIS 2007), University of Calicut, 28-29 March 2007. (In Press) [Conference paper]

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English abstract

This article gives an overview of how popularity of World Wide Web and open access concepts challenge the existence of traditional scholarly communication. New publishing outlets such as blogs, wiki and podcasting facilitate agile communication channels for scholarly communication. Open access concepts in scholarly communication enable free access of knowledge. Research community and information professionals hope that scholarly communication through Internet makes available wider access of knowledge.

Item type: Conference paper
Keywords: open access, information dissemination and diffusion, communication, publishing
Subjects: E. Publishing and legal issues. > EB. Printing, electronic publishing, broadcasting.
E. Publishing and legal issues. > ED. Intellectual property: author's rights, ownership, copyright, copyleft, open access.
B. Information use and sociology of information > BG. Information dissemination and diffusion.
Depositing user: Vimal Kumar V.
Date deposited: 22 May 2007
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:07
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/9547

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