Editoria Scientifica: La transizione al digitale. Università, biblioteche e case editrici di fronte ad un sistema in evoluzione

摘要

The thesis deals with the field of scholarly publishing. It analyzes the changes introduced by digitalization and networking and hypothesizes that a new field is developing: the field of digital scholarly publishing. It proposes an overview of the field using field theory, analyzing the situation of libraries with special attention to the serial pricing crisis and the changes into the organization of publishing houses. A socioconstructivist method is adopted to interpret the findings of the quantitative survey on academic scholar’s views on digital publishing and open access. The survey has received 250 answers and the results have been analyzed through cluster analysis. A detailed discussion of the frequencies of answers is proposed. The findings of the quantitative survey, along with the socioconstructivst interpretation brings to the final chapter where a few scenarios for the evolution of the field are proposed and discussed.