Support of the Information Needs of Scientists and the changing Pattern of scholarly Communication

This paper will address the changing pattern of scholarly communication along with its impact on academic libraries and how it is influenced by electronic information. In addition, budgeting changes in this new environment, the need for improved information literacy and restructuring academic libraries will also be addressed. Also possible changes in scholarly publishing, the persistance of paper usage in the era of electronic information and finally, the use of faculty profiles in the improvement of information flow.