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Open Access and its issue
There is no clear future direction and there is a lot of misunderstanding in the current situation of scholarly publishing. Alongside journal publication, open access and self-archiving in institutional repositories are receiving a lot of attention. But people are focusing their attention in the wrong spot. The fact that scientists are starting to work and communicate in entirely new ways made possible by the Web is a potentially much more significant development. This means that if publishers continue to concentrate solely on what is changing the article as we know it, there is a risk that others will make copies available for free, which will prevent publishers from making money from selling articles.
Expenditure and its issues:
It has been years since the costs of scholarly journals, which are mostly purchased by librarians, have not only experienced exceptional inflation but also funds that are decreasing too quickly. Academics are also, concurrently expanding and changing are the disciplines. As the Publishers have provided packages of books throughout the past few years, to consortia or groups, periodicals (called big deals) about libraries. Unit costs are decreased with these bundles, limit is set on spending; restricting librarians from choosing the titles.
Tools For Collaboration:
The new digital scholarship gives scholars the potential to collaborate in dynamic new ways:
- It facilitates interdisciplinary approaches to complex questions by breaking down information silos.
- It enables researchers located across multiple time zones to easily share information and work effectively as teams.
- It allows the rapid development of new or ad-hoc communities of scholars to respond to pressing questions and challenges.
Telecommunication and Internet
- Various media of telecommunication
- Fiber optic channels
- Wi-Fi
- Wimax
- Mobile Wifi
- 4G upto 1Gbit/s
- 5G upto 100Gbit/s
- Many publishers provide mobile apps.
House keeping
- RFID
- Online ordering, reminding, bill processing,
- Payment etc.
- Self- issue return becoming more and more
- Popular
- Cloud Computing
- Mobile applications
Organisation
- Traditional cataloguing/classification getting disappeared
- Z39.50 interface available in most of the advanced LMS
- Readily MARC records also available in bundles
- Links to publishers websites are being provided
- Discovery services
Collection development
- E- documents are replacing printed documents
- About 85% of our budget is being spent on e-documents
- Books selection process becoming obsolete
- Bundles (big deal) are being purchased
- Major budget going to large publishers
Refrences
- https://caliber.inflibnet.ac.in/caliber2009/CaliberPDF/48.pdf
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281646736