ABSTRACT

This chapter draws upon experience no less than evidence to defend the notion that communicating ideas is a multi-layered activity technically, and more importantly, a multileveled activity ideologically. It describes five recommendations for the integration or at least interfacing of experts, audiences, and publics. The first is the establishment of an international commission or committee for diversity of the press, promotion of the social science press, and guardianship of intellectual freedoms in the area of social sciences. The second is to encourage the diversity of languages served by international scientific publications. The third is for greater international exchange at the level of marketing, at the level of advertising, of standardization of computer information on subscribers. The fourth is the development of an international bibliographical data bank of specific bibliographic information on specific research areas. The fifth is development of mechanisms of financial or fiscal support for scholarly publications perhaps on a pro rata basis, perhaps on a neediest-first basis.