Advances in information and communication technologies are disrupting traditional models of scholarly publishing, radically changing our capacity to reproduce, distribute, control, and publish information. The key question is whether there are new opportunities and new models for scholarly...

This report, prepared by the Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University, explores the costs involved in research communication activities and some of the potential benefits available through emerging, more open, scholarly communication alternatives. The environment in which...

This paper reports on the development and application of a model used to estimate the costs of scholarly communication (i.e. scholarly publishing and related activities) in Australian higher education. A systems perspective was used to frame a review of the literature on the costs involved in...

Le présent rapport présente le développement et l’application d’un modèle permettant d’estimer les coûts de la communication scientifique (c'est-à-dire de la publication scientifique et des activités associées) au sein du système d’enseignement supérieur australien. Les auteurs...

Rapid global economic growth, centred in Asia but now spread across the world, is driving rapid greenhouse-gas emissions growth, making earlier projections unrealistic. This paper develops new, illustrative business-as-usual projections for carbon dioxide (CO) from fossil fuels and other sources...