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Old WWWine in New Bottles?
Developments in electronic information and communication: structural change & and functional inertia
Helmut M. ArtusSocial Science Information Centre
Bonn, Germany
Part I:
Empirical Findings
Table 1:
e-Journals According to Type of Publisher
Type of Publisher abs.
Commercial 42
Non-commercial. 59
Total: 101
Table 2: e-Journals: Free or not free?
Publisher Internet Version
free of charge abs. %
liable to chargeabs. %
Commercial 6 14 36 86
Non-commercial
50 85 9 15
Table 3:
Print Versions of e-Journals: Free or not free?
Publisher Print Version
NO free of charge
liable to charge
Commercial 1 - 27
Non-commercial 22 9 11
Table 4: Differences Between Internet and Print Version*)
No Difference between Internet and Print
Difference between Internet and Print
Type of Publisher
free of charge
liable to charge
Internet free of charge
Print version free of charge
Total
Commercial - 24 3 - 27
Non-commercial 9 6 5 - 20
Total: 9 30 8 - 47
Total (aggregated) 39 (83%) 8 (17%)
*) These are again all cases with clear information concerning prices and with different versions.
Part I, continued:
Informal Experience from:
* database SOLIS (white & grey literature, publication series) * R&D project infoconnex * R&D project vascoda * R&D project SozioNet
Part II:
Theoretical Explications
Science & its Sub-Systems
Science & its Sub-Systems
Cognitive System: information and communication (including reduction of information)
Science & its Sub-Systems
Cognitive System: information and communication (including reduction of information)
Social System: social interaction, importance and reputation of scientists, journals, institutes, scientific findings and theories
Science & its Sub-Systems
Cognitive System: information and communication (including reduction of information)
Social System: social interaction, importance and reputation of scientists, journals, institutes, scientific findings and theories
Economic System: commercial publishing, (commercial) market for scientific information, science-as-a-job & scientists-as-employees
Science & its Sub-Systems
Cognitive System: information and communication (including reduction of information)
Social System: social interaction, importance and reputation of scientists, journals, institutes, scientific findings and theories
Economic System: commercial publishing, (commercial) market for scientific information, science-as-a-job & scientists-as-employees
‘Political’ System: research funding, support of research institutes
SciencePolitical System
Social System
Economic System
Cognitive System
SciencePoliticalSystem
SocialSystem
EconomicSystem
CognitiveSystem
SciencePoliticalSystem
SocialSystem
EconomicSystem
CognitiveSystem
ScientistPoliticalSystem
SocialSystem
Economic System
Cognitive System
SciencePoliticalSystem
SocialSystem
EconomicSystem
CognitiveSystem
SciencePoliticalSystem
SocialSystem
EconomicSystem
CognitiveSystem
ScientistPoliticalSystem
SocialSystem
... as researcher
CognitiveSystem
ScientistPoliticalSystem
SocialSystem
... as researcher
... as author
Scientist... as employee ... as reader
... as researcher
... as author
SciencePolitical System
Social System
Economic System
Cognitive System
The End