September 2012
Intermediate to advanced
510 pages
14h 48m
English
This chapter discusses the long-term implications facing scholarly publishers and other stakeholders in academic information services owing to the fact that the Internet has made scholarly communications available to anyone with a web connection. The chapter covers emerging user expectations, issues of trust and authority, implications of social sharing, pressures on business models, the expansion of information publishing outputs, and sources of stability within the tumult of change.
Key words
Disruptive change
trust networks
social media
business models
Of all the changes the Internet has introduced for scholarly publishers, ...
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