1. Old WWWine in New Bottles?
Developments in electronic information and communication:
structural change & and functional inertia
Helmut M. Artus
Social Science Information Centre
Bonn, Germany

2. Part I:
Empirical Findings

3. Table 1:
e-Journals According to Type of Publisher
Type of Publisher abs.
Commercial 42
Non-commercial. 59
Total: 101

4. Table 2: e-Journals: Free or not free?
Publisher Internet Version
free of charge liable to charge
abs. % abs. %
Commercial 6 14 36 86
Non- 50 85 9 15
commercial

5. Table 3:
Print Versions of e-Journals: Free or not free?
Publisher Print Version
NO free of liable to
charge charge
Commercial 1 - 27
Non-commercial 22 9 11

6. Table 4:
Differences Between Internet and Print Version*)
No Difference between Difference between
Internet and Print Internet and Print
Type free of liable to Internet free of Print version Total
of Publisher charge charge charge free of
charge
Commercial - 24 3 - 27
Non-commercial 9 6 5 - 20
Total: 9 30 8 - 47
Total (aggregated) 39 (83%) 8 (17%)
*) These are again all cases with clear information concerning prices and with different versions.

7. Part I, continued:
Informal Experience from:
* database SOLIS (white & grey literature,
publication series)
* R&D project infoconnex
* R&D project vascoda
* R&D project SozioNet

8. Part II:
Theoretical Explications

9. Science & its Sub-Systems

10. Science & its Sub-Systems
Cognitive System:
information and communication (including reduction of information)

11. Science & its Sub-Systems
Cognitive System:
information and communication (including reduction of information)
Social System:
social interaction, importance and reputation of scientists, journals, institutes,
scientific findings and theories

12. Science & its Sub-Systems
Cognitive System:
information and communication (including reduction of information)
Social System:
social interaction, importance and reputation of scientists, journals, institutes,
scientific findings and theories
Economic System:
commercial publishing, (commercial) market for scientific information,
science-as-a-job & scientists-as-employees

13. Science & its Sub-Systems
Cognitive System:
information and communication (including reduction of information)
Social System:
social interaction, importance and reputation of scientists, journals, institutes,
scientific findings and theories
Economic System:
commercial publishing, (commercial) market for scientific information,
science-as-a-job & scientists-as-employees
‘Political’ System:
research funding, support of research institutes

14. Cognitive
System
Political Social
System
Science System
Economic
System

15. Cognitive
System
Political Social
System
Science System
Economic
System

16. Cognitive
System
Political Social
System
Science System
Economic
System

17. Cognitive
System
Political Social
System
Scientist System
Economic
System

18. Cognitive
System
Social
Political
System
Science System
Economic
System

19. Cognitive
System
Political Social
System
Science System
Economic
System

20. Cognitive
System
Political Social
System
Scientist System
... as researcher

21. ... as author
Political Social
System
Scientist System
... as researcher

22. ... as author
... as employee Scientist ... as reader
... as researcher

24. Cognitive
System
Political Social
System
Science System
Economic
System

25. The End