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Are new approaches needed for developing long‐term strategies for STEM information?
Author(s) -
Brown David
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
learned publishing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.06
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1741-4857
pISSN - 0953-1513
DOI - 10.1002/leap.1103
Subject(s) - conservatism , democratization , the internet , term (time) , business , point (geometry) , key (lock) , marketing , computer science , economics , political science , computer security , democracy , world wide web , politics , law , physics , geometry , mathematics , quantum mechanics
Key points Trends point to increased democratization within STEM, driven by open access, Internet delivery, and digital natives. The current journal publishing system does not meet the needs of researchers who want timely access to the latest results. Demographic and sociological changes are likely to undermine the inherent conservatism of STEM. Traditional STEM systems ignore the latent market of knowledge workers, but new information services do not. Radical approaches to STEM are required if we are to respond to the ‘perfect storm’ of changing needs and expectations.