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Sistemul Clasic al Comunicării Ştiinţifice
Alexandru Dan Corlan,
Revista de Politica Ştiinţei şi Scientometrie 5(1):31-39, 2016
ABSTRACT
We describe instruments of scientific communication,
such as the personal communication, the laboratory notebook, the
dataset archive, the research journal and the conference proceedings,
in their classical realisation. Consolidation of commercial publishing
houses and their acquisition of many journals from the learned
societies in the last part of the former century led to oligopolies in
some fields, resulting in the periodicals crysis. In the web age,
online versions of most classical communication instruments were
introduced, that mostly preserve the same features of their paper
variants. These electronic tools, however, constitute only the first
stage of the web revolution in research communication. Open access to
publications and data, and especially the switch from accessing
literature from following specific journals to searching through a
database, are quickly changing the way research results are
disseminated. The elements that aggregated over centuries, resulting
in the academic journal that publishes peer reviewed primary articles,
are currently being reinvented and rearranged into distinct
instruments. Completely new tools such as collaborative platforms and
games as a form a research output hint to an entirely transformed
scientific communications system in the very near future.
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