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Open Access Driven Transformation of the Scientific Communication System: Current Status, Prerequisites for Change, Effects, and Prospects

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This article presents interviews with leaders and staff members of 17 Russian and foreign organizations that represent the publishing community, libraries, community projects, and associations related to the science information system. The interviews were conducted as part of a study of the impact of open access on the scientific communication system. During the interviews we attempted to predict the future transformations of the scientific information market.

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Notes

  1. Data shown by Colin Campbell, a representative of the Max Planck Digital Library at the 7th International Scientific and Practical Conference: “World-Class Scientific Publication–2018: Editorial Policy, Open Access, Scientific Communications” (Moscow, April 26, 2018).

  2. Trinity variant (Troitskiy variant) is a Russian popular science newspaper published since 2008 (https://trv-science.ru).

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We are grateful to all the experts who took the time and shared their observations and opinions on how the scientific communication system is being transformed as well as to the Associate Professor of the Department of Media Theory and Economics of the Faculty of Journalism of the Moscow State University M.I. Makeenko for the idea and valuable advice in the preparation of research results.

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Trishchenko, N.D. Open Access Driven Transformation of the Scientific Communication System: Current Status, Prerequisites for Change, Effects, and Prospects. Sci. Tech. Inf. Proc. 46, 73–83 (2019). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0147688219020059

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