Re-engineering Scholarly Communication: Thoughts Addressed to Authors

Abstract

Much scholarly communication is crippled by economically irrational behaviours, including the disassociation of supply and demand, the dysfunctional management of intellectual property, an unsustainable spiral of capital cost, and the emerging failure of publishing decisions to guide economic rationing elsewhere in academic life. Remedies should besought not solely among established publishers but also among collaborations of researchers, librarians, and computing centre staff using new capabilities for electronic publishing. These collaborations should be founded in the creative impulse of teaching and research, but they must also be designed to survive in the marketplace for information and knowledge.