The future of electronic data

Аннотация

These information technologies hold great promise for positive change in the ways that scholars, researchers and educators conduct their work. But they have also destabilized the economics of a highly complex communication system. And they challenge some basic assumptions concerning longheld roles in the value chain of traditional scholarly output. All of the stakeholders in the system are currently living in a period of experimentation, and it is not at all clear how the system will look when the dust settles.