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The Transition from Paper: Where Are We Going and How Will We Get There?
Edited by R. Stephen Berry and Anne Simon Moffat, Published online, 2001
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Summary
The world of communication is going through a transition unlike any that humans
have ever experienced, with far-reaching consequences possibly greater than any
prior advance since the invention of written language. Now communications are faster,
cheaper, and potentially more accessible than we could have imagined even just a
decade ago. Information of traditional and very nontraditional kinds is available,
in principle, for anyone with a link to the internet. The scientific community has
been at the vanguard in developing and using the new modes and in experiencing the
consequences, both positive and negative, of the transition. We are still in the
early stages of that transition, trying to feel our way ahead. The project that
produced this set of essays has been an attempt to anticipate changes and to feel
our way ahead in the process.
Table of Contents
Introduction
R. Stephen Berry, University of Chicago; Anne Simon Moffat, American Academy
of Arts & Sciences, Midwest Center
The Transformation of Teaching and Research
- Electronics and the Future of Education
Andrew Odlyzko, AT&T Bell Laboratories
- The Changing Landscape of Academics as Affected
by New Communications Technology
Neil Kestner, Louisiana State University
- The Future of Science Textbooks
Neil Kestner
- Scientific Journals of the Future
Steven Bachrach, Trinity College, San Antonio (formerly with Northern Illinois
University)
- The Future(?) of Peer Review
Thomas von Foerster, Springer-Verlag, New York City
- Management of the New Infrastructure for
Electronic Publications
Stephen R. Heller, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD (formerly with USDA)
- Electronic Clones vs. the Global Research
Archive
Paul Ginsparg, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Science and Science Online; Wired and HotWired
Alexander Fowler, [Interviews], The Electronic Frontier Foundation (formerly with
the policy division, American Association for the Advancement of Science)
- Electronic Conferences
Steven Bachrach
Redirecting Science, Commerce, and Society
- Advancing the Electronic Information Marketplace Through Library Licensing
Ann Okerson, Yale University
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil?
Academic Publishing, Copyright and other Miasmas
Ann Okerson
- The Legal Foundation for Electronic Information:
How Will It Affect Scientists?
Ronald Wigington, American Chemical Society (retired)
- Competition and Cooperation: Libraries
and Publishers in the Transition to Electronic Scholarly Journals
Andrew Odlyzko
- On 'Who Should Own Scientific Papers'*
Martin Blume, American Physical Society
*Click here for a related article in Science Magazine
Global Impacts of the Transition
- The Rationale for "Full and Open Access" of Scientific Information
R. Stephen Berry
- Social Impacts of the Transition
R. Stephen Berry
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