ABSTRACT

Scholarly Communications is in a state of unprecedented change, with publishers, scholarly societies, scientists and other scholars, librarians and legislators engaged in strategies of various kinds to push change in directions that favor their individual goals. The strategies fall into broad categories: changing the publishing market, changing the academy and changing public policy. Each set of strategies is examined in terms of desired changes and opposing forces. Trends that will likely impact the scholarly publications market are identified, as are threats. doi:10.1300/J123v52n01_16 [Article copies available for a fee from The Haworth Document Delivery Service: 1-800-HAWORTH. E-mail address: <docdelivery@haworthpress.com> Website: <https://www.HaworthPress.com>]