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Scholarly Communication Institutions: Transforming Scholarship With History, Shawn Martin
Scholarly Communication Institutions: Transforming Scholarship With History, Shawn Martin
Shawn Martin
The current scholarly communication system has developed over centuries; yet, more recently it has been breaking down. Different disciplines have diagnosed this as an economic breakdown between libraries and publishers, a social failure among academics, and as a technological disruption. Of course, all of these answers are true to some degree. By combining approaches from information science and history, it may be possible to understand scholarly communication system more clearly. Historians such as Steven Shapin in A Social History of Truth (1994) have suggested that academic dialogue rests on “trust.” As the number of people participating became larger, that trust …