Future of Scholarly Publishing and Scholarly Communication: Report of the Expert Group to the European Commission

The report proposes a vision for the future of scholarly communication; it examines the current system -with its strengths and weaknesses- and its main actors. It considers the roles of researchers, research institutions, funders and policymakers, publishers and other service providers, as well as citizens and puts forward recommendations addressed to each of them. The report places researchers and their needs at the centre of the scholarly communication of the future, and considers knowledge and understanding created by researchers as public goods. Current developments, enabled primarily by technology, have resulted into a broadening of types of actors involved in scholarly communication and in some cases the disaggregation of the traditional roles in the system. The report views research evaluation as a keystone for scholarly communication, affecting all actors. Researchers, communities and all organisations, in particular funders, have the possibility of improving the current scholarly communication and publishing system: they should start by bringing changes to the research evaluation system. Collaboration between actors is essential for positive change and to enable innovation in the scholarly communication and publishing system in the future.

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Comisión Europea (2024). El futuro de la edición y la comunicación académica. Informe del Grupo de Expertos a la Comisión Europea
(Prólogo de J.-C Guédon). Books2bits. https://doi.org/10.51438/B2Binfoce2024

Biography or the Chair of Expert Group

Jean-Claude Guédon

Born 1943 in Le Havre, France, earned his PhD in History of Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1974, with a thesis on chemistry in the Encyclopedia of Diderot and d'Alembert. He began his career at Glendon College (York University) in Toronto, Ontario in 1970. He has been a professor at the Université de Montréal since 1973. His main fields of interest have to do with digitization of culture: the relationships between text and technology, cyberculture, electronic publishing and digital libraries. He is also interested in the cultural, legal, linguistic and social consequences of the Internet. In addition, he has been involved in the issues of free access to research, open archives and open-source software. The questions of distributed intelligence and "phonemic" individuality intrigue him. He has authored three books: La planète cyber. L'Internet et le cyberespace, in the Gallimard "Découvertes" collection (Paris, 1996), a widely read book that has been translated into Italian and was republished in 2000 under the title Internet. Le monde en réseau; Per la pubblicità del sapere (Pisa, Italy, Pisa University Press, 2004); and Open Access. Contro gli oligopoli nel sapere (Pisa, Edizioni ETS, 2009). He was also named "Leiter Lecturer" at the National Library of Medicine in 1998. He is the founder of the first Canadian scholarly electronic journal Surfaces (started in 1991) and a Steering Group member of Open Humanities Press, an international open access publishing collective specializing in critical and cultural theory. He is also on the Academic Steering & Advocacy Committee of the Open Library of Humanities. In 1996, he was one of three winners of the Prix international Charles-Hélou pour la francophonie, in recognition of his essay entitled Penser la différence différemment : la francophonie et les réseaux, and the Excellence Prize of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities/Société Canadienne des Humanités Numériques, in 2005. Every year, he speaks at about twenty events all over the world on the above subjects.

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